Panos Efsta

Seeing to Understand Panos Efsta

Experience a transformation in your thinking by investing the time to learn and apply the principles of Scientific Thinking. This coaching book is a source that fuses the Toyota Kata, Training Within Industry (TWI), and Process Behavior Analysis principles is a breakthrough yet straightforward way. That approach will take you to higher competency levels without leveraging your growth on the availability of external guidance. But this is not all. As you read through the book and document your reflections, you will continue to evolve your improvement and coaching skills. These skills turn into qualities we all need to become better leaders by developing more leaders, not just followers. Seeing to Understand is a coaching guide that helps you increase the learning quality and pace of improvement. You will learn how to practice the Improvement and Coaching Kata in a unique yet breakthrough way. Easy to understand and fun to follow. Through this book, you will be exposed to learnings and practice how to incorporate TWI Job Methods to develop robust target conditions while avoiding using non-evidence-based intuition. You will learn to build Process Behavior Charts, step-by-step, and how to utilize them to understand the Voice of the Focus Process, without falling victim to reacting to every datapoint movement (noise). That way, you can always align your PDSA experiments to specific Obstacles that cause process signals. Your exposure to Obstacle Hunting will help you appreciate obstacles as they are a vital source for your learnings. As you develop your ability to be a more capable improver, you will also learn how to 1st and 2nd coach those around you with evidence-based questions that incorporate TWI Job Relations, promote learning and joy-in-work. Your role is to improve the work, not just do it, and as you will learn repeatedly, there is nothing arbitrary or unintentional about scientific thinking.