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You have some experience with the Improvement Kata and want to know how the Coaching Kata fits.
This is a two-session workshop, March 6 and March 13, that will give you first-hand experience in how the Coaching Kata supports and guides the people actually making improvements, every day. Coaching is the way we develop people, no matter their position or skill set, into scientific thinkers who can achieve tough challenges. The Coaching Kata as described by Mike Rother in his Toyota Kata books, is a structured and even scripted coaching conversation supported by what we call Starter Kata or templates for your practice. This workshop builds on the February 27th workshop, The Improvement Kata: Learn a Pattern for Real Daily Improvement. In each of these two workshop sessions, you won't be a kata coach, but you will have an experience to build on. You will know if you want to learn more.
Tracy Defoe is an adult educator specializing in learning at work. About ten years ago she started coaching to develop a scientific mindset in people improving their processes at work using the Improvement and Coaching Kata detailed in Mike Rother's Toyota Kata books. She is cofounder of the global women's group Kata Girl Geeks, cofounder of Kata School Cascadia, and a facilitator with Tilo Schwarz's Kata Coaching Dojo Masterclass. For the last five years, Tracy has hosted a weekly free community zoom for kata coaches. Tracy describes herself as a kata learner, coach and second coach. Her consulting firm is called TLFI The Learning Factor Inc. She has many years as a workshop facilitator and promised her sessions are active, fun and memorable. Tracy will also be at AME 2025 in Louisville! Links: The Learning Factor https://thelearningfactor.ca/ Kata School Cascadia https://kata-school-cascadia.org/
Thursday, March 6, 2025
8:55 a.m. Check in
9 a.m. Introduction to the Coaching Kata
9:15 a.m. Practice the Coaching Kata in support of a peer practicing the Improvement Kata
10:30 a.m. Reflections, Learnings and Questions
11 a.m. Workshop concludes
Thursday, March 13, 2025
8:55 a.m. Check in
9 a.m. Recap and homework review
9:15 a.m. Practice the Coaching Kata in support of a peer practicing the Improvement Kata
10:30 a.m. Reflections, Learnings and Questions
11 a.m. Workshop concludes
- What is the Coaching Kata?
- Readiness for coaching – are you ready?
- The Coaching Kata pattern
- How the Kata Storyboard helps the coach
- Coaching in planning and in experimenting
- The Experimenting or Learning Record, and how to use one
- Obstacles, how to coach people to think about them
- Practice with reflecting on learning – the heart of developing yourself and others
- Executives and senior leaders, team managers, and supervisors who lead or take part in developing people through continuous improvement efforts.
- Anyone who is expected to coach others and is interested in the kata structure.
- Those who are frustrated with improvements that don’t stick, or with having to do everything themselves.
- People curious about the Coaching Kata.
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Cancelation Policy: This event may be canceled by AME for any reason. AME is not responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants. For paid events, registration fee less a $20 administration fee will be refunded up to one week before the event. Substitutions may be made up to three days prior to the start of the event.
