Toyota Kata templates

Excel templates for the Improvement Kata

A kata is any structured way of thinking and acting that you practice until the pattern becomes a habit.

Mike Rother's book, the Toyota Kata, studies Toyota's structured ways of thinking and acting — in ways that achieve outstanding results.

Your Systems2win templates now include an entire suite of tools to make it easy to implement these popular problem-solving and lean leadership practices.

Two months ago, we highlighted the PDCA Coaching template — that systematizes the steps of Coaching Kata.

This month, we released the PDCA Coaching Observations template — to help your Coach's Coach do a better job of coach coaching.

And this month, we focus on several of the tools that make it so much easier to practice the Improvement Kata itself.

When doing Process Analysis using the Kata approach, you will usually start with Cycle Time Observations.

And you will sketch the process using a
Block Diagram and/or other types of flow charting.

If your process has a potential machine constraint, you will perform Machine Balancing.

And you will often maintain a Run Chart of the process - both before and after improvement.

Of course you could do all of your process improvement using only pencil and paper,
but... why?

Why not use professionally-developed tools and systems to lead your leaders...
to do things systematically, consistently, and reliably... rather than winging it with "the parts that I remember from that training we received a few months ago"?

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The most popular is probably the Team Accountability Board — a bulletin board located as close as possible to the place where the work is actually performed. The team and coach (and sometimes the coach's coach) conduct regularly-scheduled periodic stand-up meetings (usually daily) — standing in front of their Team Accountability Board that visually displays the performance results, team planning documents, and other documents that are most important for that team.

If the team happens to be currently using the PDCA scientific method to navigate unknown territory, then another popular visual team board format is the Lean Storyboard — which tells the story of what Strategic Challenge the team is working on, and how they're coming with that.

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