Kata: Toyota Kata in Practice
Description
This leadership course presents the next level of thinking in lean management. It will show you how to generate skills and initiative among everyone in the organization to adapt, improve, and keep moving forward.
By practicing the Improvement Kata and the Coaching Kata, many people can learn and become engaged in the process of improvement, adaptation, and innovation. This is a particularly good source of sustained competitive advantage.
Improvement and Coaching Kata provides a powerful context that allows you to better utilize familiar lean elements, tools, and systems and sustain improvement.
Training Information
Course Approach
One day classroom seminar + two days in-plant practice:
Day 1:
For those organizations searching for a better way to lead, manage, and develop people, to produce continuous improvement, adaptation, survival, and superior results.
Day 2 & 3:
Two-day practice (which immediately follows the one-day seminar), on the Improvement Kata. Two days in the field will be held at an actual host-site facility where the Improvement Kata will be applied to real processes.
Day 2 & 3:
Practice! The Improvement Kata.
The one-day classroom seminar is a prerequisite for the two-day in-plant practice.
- Practicing hands-on the Improvement Kata, and some Coaching Kata
- Through practice, developing a deeper awareness of what this new model of leadership and management involves, and what will be required to develop such routines in an organization.
How Kata Impacts Your Organization
By providing a systematic, scientific routine that can be applied to any problem or challenge, Kata impacts your organizations in the following ways:
- Standardizing how the members of an organization develop solutions.
- Migrating managers toward a role of coach and mentor, by having them practice coaching cycles.
- Framing PDCA in a way that has people taking small steps every day.
Jesus "Jesse" Cano joined the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC) at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2017. As a Valley native, he strives to use his experience to assist local manufacturing and service companies in pursuit of continuous improvement by means of consulting, coaching and training in the latest principles and technologies. His goal, is to aid these companies to become more efficient, reduce waste and increase productivity to ultimately create a stronger industry in the Rio Grande Valley.
Jesse is an engineer with over 10 years of experience in Manufacturing and Design from the Oil Gas, Power Generation and Aerospace fields. He has held roles of Design Engineer, Lead Manufacturing Engineer and Lead Repair Technology Engineer for GE Aviation, GE Power, Superior Energy Services, and Baker Hughes.
Through his career, he has led various continuous improvement, productivity, quality and NPI (New Product Introduction) projects and has experience in improving existing and designing new layouts using lean concepts to create optimal cellular flows. He has also guided the implementation of CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) arms and Blue Light Technology into inspection processes to eliminate hard fixtures and improve inspection data and reports.
Jesse holds a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering out of the University of Texas Pan American and has certifications and training in Lean, Six Sigma, Quality, Project Management, Leadership and Coaching.
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