Kata for Personal Direction and Growth: How to be calm, focused and successful in a world that changes

Our world of rapid change, unpredictability, and ever more options confronts all of us with the challenge to choose – choose how to spend our time and energy. That can be overwhelming, and we understand that we need to be adaptive at high speed. That is exactly what the Toyota Kata practice routines aim for. Learn how to benefit from these proven patterns in life and business – right now and in the longer term.

You’ll learn 3 powerful Starter Kata* you can put into practice immediately, to grow personally, master challenges, and reach your targets.

What You’ll Learn…
– How to have a clear direction in everything you do
– How to define your Target Condition for each week
– How to be focused each day despite changes, interruptions, and hundreds of options
– How to apply scientific thinking and a step-by-step approach to master challenges

*Starter Kata are concrete and deliberate steps for getting a new approach or behaviour started

 

About Tilo Schwarz

Tilo works as Leadership Coach and Toyota Kata Trainer and supports organizations and managers to successfully lead change and continuous improvement. In the past years Tilo has focused his work on helping leaders to coach their teams for mastering challenges and navigating unknown territory.

Between 2006 and 2012, being plant manager at a German power-tool manufacturer, he introduced the Toyota Kata as main problem solving- and management-pattern. Together with his management team he successfully navigate the crisis of 2007/2008, winning the 2008 A.T. Kearny manufacturing award “plant of the year“ and receiving a second place in the WHU/INSEAD contest “industrial excellence award” in 2011.