1. Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata
Beth Carrington
June 16, 2016

2. Beth Carrington Carrington Consulting Inc.
Kata Master Learner

3. Building Continuous Improvement Capability
Common CI
Answering the question “What can we do to improve?”
Waste Walks
Brainstorming
Benchmarking - Implementing pre- determined solutions
Episodic events
Another way…
Answering the question “What do we need to improve?
Acheiving very specific and challenging goals and objectives
Devoloping solutions and over-coming obstacles through experimentation
Daily learning and striving

4. Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata

5. Improvement Kata 4 – PDCA to Overcome Obstacles Target Condition
Vision
Challenge
Current
3 – Establish the
Target Condition
2 – Grasp the
Current Condition
1 – Understand the
Direction
Based on Mike Rother’s Improvement Kata

6. Understand the Direction
Often use Value Stream Mapping
To parse Organizational Challenges
To Process Level objectives
Target
Condition
Vision
Challenge
Current
Vision and Challenge come from leadership
Vision is principle based, vague far away…
Challenge is specific and time based.
1 – Understand the
Direction
Based on Mike Rother’s Improvement Kata

7. Grasp the Current Condition
Target
Condition
Vision
Challenge
Current
2 – Grasp the
Current Condition
As it relates to the Challenge
Following the Mini Routine of Process Analysis
Based on Mike Rother’s Improvement Kata

8. Establish the Target Condition
Vision
Challenge
Current
3 – Establish the
Target Condition
Describe the Desired Pattern of Work you predict will give out a outcome moving you closer to the Challenge
List obstacles you think will prevent you from reaching the target condition.
Based on Mike Rother’s Improvement Kata

9. Plan Do Check Act 4 – PDCA to Overcome Obstacles Target Vision
Condition
Vision
Challenge
Current
Plan is an experiment to overcome an obstacle,
Single factor experiment, with a predicted outcome
Do is an execution of the experiment, observing closely.
Check is comparing what you observed with the prediction.
Act ion what you learned
Based on Mike Rother’s Improvement Kata

10. Coaching Kata

11. Reflect on the Last Step Taken
Coaching Kata
5 categories of questions
Represents a thought pattern
A pattern to help guide to the Scientific Method
C O A C H I N G K A T A
The Five Questions
What is the Target Condition?
What is the Actual Condition now? Turn Card Over >
What Obstacles do you think are preventing you from reaching the target condition? Which *ONE* are you addressing now?
What is your Next Step (next experiment) What do you Expect?
How quickly can we go and see what we Have Learned from taking that step?
Reflect on the Last Step Taken
Because you don’t actually know what the result of a step will be!
What did you plan as your Last Step?
What did you Expect?
What Actually Happened?
What did you Learn?
Return to question >
© Mike Rother

12. Coach
Learner

13. What’s behind the scene
What’s really going on here!

14. Kata….. A kata is a routine you practice so it becomes habit.
Through practice the pattern becomes second nature, reflexive – requiring little or no effort.

15. Habits…
Neural pathways are strengthened through deliberate or intentional practice, repetition building habits.
The things we do, our thoughts, our interpretation of the world around us is based on our habits.
By shaping specific habits we can build a desired mindset.

16. Mindset… Building an adaptive mindset. Expanded Comfort Area Mystery
Learning
Zone
Uncertainty
Expanded
Apparent
Certainty
Comfort
Area
Comfort
Zone

17. Wishing you success with your Kata! Kata, kata, kata... Beth Carrington