TWI and Kata: Skill Patterns to Develop a Culture of Coaching

How Training Within Industry and Toyota Kata Work Together to Build Sustainable Continuous Improvement

Many organizations invest heavily in Lean tools—but still struggle to build a lasting culture of coaching, learning, and daily improvement.

This on-demand webinar explores how Training Within Industry (TWI) and Toyota Kata function together as complementary skill patterns that help leaders develop people who can solve problems, improve processes, and adapt continuously.

In this session, Oscar Roach, Director of Training at the Training Within Industry Institute, shares practical insight into how organizations can move beyond isolated Lean initiatives and instead build coaching habits that shape culture over time.

Hosted by Mark Graban of KaiNexus, this webinar reframes Lean as a system for people development first, with performance improvement as a natural result.

Key Insights

A true culture of coaching isn’t created through workshops or events—it’s built through daily habits. This webinar shows how TWI and Kata provide those habits by giving leaders clear patterns for teaching, leading, improving work, and thinking scientifically.

Rather than treating engagement issues, skill gaps, or inconsistent improvement as separate problems, Oscar explains how these challenges are often symptoms of missing capability—and how specific skill patterns act as countermeasures. When leaders learn when and why to apply Job Instruction, Job Relations, Job Methods, and Kata coaching, improvement becomes more focused, more human, and far more sustainable.

You’ll also see why random or “recreational” improvement efforts fail, and how goal-directed experimentation creates alignment, momentum, and trust across all levels of the organization.

What You’ll Learn

• How Lean shifts from waste removal to people development

• The role of TWI Job Instruction, Job Relations, and Job Methods in stabilizing work

• Why Toyota Kata enables disciplined, goal-driven improvement

• How coaching habits shape culture more than tools or metrics

• How leaders at every level can reinforce learning through PDCA

Who This Webinar Is For

This webinar is ideal for:

• Continuous improvement and operational excellence leaders

• Lean practitioners and coaches

• Managers responsible for developing people, not just results

• Organizations struggling with stalled or inconsistent improvement

• Leaders looking to build trust, engagement, and follow-through

Whether you’re early in your Lean journey or trying to sustain momentum, this session provides a practical

framework for building coaching capability that lasts.

Watch the Webinar On-Demand

Access the full recording to learn how TWI and Kata work together to create a culture of coaching and continuous improvement.

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