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6 07, 2020

The Real Secret to Toyota’s Enduring Success

By |2020-07-06T20:23:42+01:00July 6th, 2020|Categories: Toyota Kata Coaching|Tags: , , , |

Do YOU Even Know about the ‘Real' Secret to Toyota's Enduring Success? We’ll give you a clue - it's not the Tools. In fact, by understanding what this secret is, you could transform your business and achieve the most challenging of goals - way beyond your current levels of performance, and potentially NOT use one single Lean Tool. How much time and effort are your people putting in to your Lean and CI efforts today, to end up being a pale imitation of Toyota? Most Lean Transformations fail (*) anyway, so why bother? There must be a better way. And [...]

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1 12, 2015

We all need a Lean Coach: Why a ‘Sensei’ is for life, not just for Christmas!

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00December 1st, 2015|Categories: Lean Coaching|Tags: , , , , |

Greetings of the Season to you all. It’s been a while since I last blogged, but the arrival of some colder weather in the UK and the feeling of hurtling towards the festive period with few plans in place, has spurred me into action. If I don’t commit to writing something now, then it could well be the New Year before I get chance again! I wanted to focus my discussion in this blog on the role of the Coach in our own personal Lean development. It struck me recently that I am spending more and more of my time ‘coaching’ [...]

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5 10, 2015

Lean Kata Training: An Exciting New Offering from Lean FSL

By |2018-06-13T11:19:36+01:00October 5th, 2015|Categories: Latest News|Tags: , , , , |

Lean FSL are delighted to announce that having recently participated in a Lean Kata Simulation training event, facilitated by TWI trainer Joakim Bjurstrom, at the University of Buckingham, we are now able to offer Lean Kata training and on-the-job coaching as part of our portfolio of services to customers. Click on the link below for more details on how we can support you and your team in practicing your Kata: Kata Flyer - Oct.15 We are actively looking for clients who will allow us to 'practice' Kata training for ourselves. We need your help in applying the Kata principles to our [...]

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5 12, 2014

Time to let the KATA out of the bag

By |2018-06-13T11:19:37+01:00December 5th, 2014|Categories: Leadership & Kata|Tags: , |

How learning two new habits will get your improvement efforts really purring! Hi, welcome to Lean FSL’s latest blog. I’ve been talking to clients a lot recently about something called ‘kata’, and this prompted me to dust off a book I purchased about 4 years ago by Mike Rother called ‘Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results’. I’m not sure if I missed the significance of the approach the first time, but having now revisited the book I have come to realise what an excellent and important piece of work it is. I’m starting to come to the [...]

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