Respect for People - Teaching People to See

In the global economy, the age of unskilled people doing repetitive and boring work is dying. In the last few years, manufacturing has lost many jobs to COVID-19. The future of industry depends on producing high-end products using highly-skilled workers and highly self-motivated and effective leaders. Effective tools and techniques for developing the highly-skilled workers to engage them positively is what companies need today.

Ever since Toyota introduced the revolutionary Toyota Production System (TPS), businesses have tried to replicate Toyota’s success. Few have succeeded over the long-term. What businesses have failed to realize is that TPS calls for a fundamentally different way of thinking. Now, at long last, here is a straightforward guide that make sense of the thinking culture behind Toyota’s phenomenal success.

This deep dive into the company’s game-changing work practices reveals how employees are developed, how they are taught to spot and define problems through standardization, how they are coached to solve them, and how they are encouraged to improve their thinking as they moved forward.

And you’ll see how Toyota developed this simple but profoundly effective approach into an overall management system—and how you can achieve amazing results in your company through the same system.

No company drives continuous improvement in real like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual. Toyota Kata Culture helps you visualize exactly how these methods work - so you can start putting them into action right away. You will learn to develop your own iterative process of trial and adjustment, build a deliberate, scientific-thinking culture that grows capability, and make aligned strategic continuous improvement part of everyday work. Achieve your goals, and differentiate your organization by following the proven formula laid out in the 2-day Toyota Kata Culture Program by The School for Gemba Excellence.  

The Harada Method is an effective tool for developing the highly-skilled workers that companies need.  This course meshes perfectly with Lean, Six Sigma, Hoshin Planning, and other continuous improvement efforts, and gives real substance to what Toyota calls "Respect for People." 

When you ask people, "what is your favorite day of the week?," almost everyone says Friday or Saturday. Somehow we get excited about the weekend but not work. With the Harada Method you can get excited about work too. You get excited about work because you can envision your future success from your own effort. Once you can clearly see your future, you will be excited to go to work, knowing you are on your way to reaching your fullest potential. 

BE A LEADER: The Harada Method takes the power of coaching and teaching great athletes into the workplace. This method teaches you how to lead people to sharpen their skills, their mind, their body, and their spirit. When people have clear goals with strong purposes they can visualize becoming the best with everything falling into place. 

BE A GREAT COACH: Every great athlete has a coach and every worker needs their manager to be their coach, bringing out the best that they are capable of being. The essence of the Harada Method is what we call “self-reliance.” Self-reliance is the ability of each person to become highly skilled – to be the absolute best at some discipline. People who are self-reliant can be trusted to make responsible decisions for themselves and for the organization they work for.