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Hello everyone, Graham here. Can you remember when we used to send postcards to friends and family from our lovely sunny holiday locations, and then find we arrived home about two weeks before the postcards arrived? Well. This blog is a modern take on those experiences from another time! I’ve been meaning to write this article for about 3 weeks and have finally got around to it! In early May this year (2022) I made a short trip to the lovely city of Copenhagen to meet-up with fellow Kata Geeks for a 1-day ‘get together’ and mini-workshop. I wanted to share [...]

Hello everyone, Graham here again. So, what have you been doing during the pandemic, that you always wished you had the time to do? For the last 3 months I've been using the Improvement & Coaching Kata to help me improve my guitar playing. It’s been – as they say – quite a journey! Step 1. Setting the Challenge From being an almost complete beginner (I had a few lessons 30+ years ago, and have hacked my way through an occasional song since, but not in a way where you’d be able to sing along!), I have reached several Target Conditions [...]

Hello Everyone. It’s my sincere hope that this article finds you well in this current time of crisis for us all. A return to normality seems likely to be slow to happen, every improvement is fragile and every step has to be measured carefully. At the beginning of this Covid-19 crisis, I asked the question how do I, and my lean and CI colleagues and friends, support organisations to initially survive the current challenging situation, and then go on to thrive in what could be a very different environment for all organisations? I suspect that in far too many cases CI [...]