Audience: General Audience
Format: Presentation/Case Study
Industry: Education
Authors and affiliations:
Motoi Tobita (Goldratt Consulting and TOC for Education)
Yuji Kishira (Goldratt Consulting and TOC for Education)
Title: Buy-in the 4 pillars of TOC brief: How to remove 4 obstacles to think clearly in a
half day
A recent drastic growth in TOC community in Japan is contributed by the growth
of TOC for education (TOCfE) community. Its body of knowledge for "to become adult to
think clearly" are being accepted in the following areas:
-Teach how to think in school
-Teach how to think in family
-Teach how to think in organization
TOCfE is being recognized in Japan as simple/easy enough for kindergarten children but
profound enough for CEO's.
Yet, in order to achieve the goal of TOCfE Japan “make Japan better in 20 years” and
the goal of TOC community “make TOC the main way”, we needed a way to create critical
mass more effectively. For that, one of the speakers (Yuji Kishira) developed a simple yet
robust process for facilitators to deliver TOCfE introductory contents in a half day as
following:
60 minutes: Introduction of TOC and the three basic tools of TOCfE (Branch, Cloud and
Ambitious target tree).
60 minutes: Branch exercise using the 4 pillars of TOC brief / group presentation
60 minutes: Cloud exercise using one of participants dilemma
30 minutes: Feedback workshop by asking 4 simple questions:
-What you did
-What you learned
-What you do next based on your learnings
-What merit you will obtain from above actions
5 minutes: Watch Eli's video saying “Let's make the company that people say ‘It's
Monday!’” in Baltimore
In the presentation, we will present a way to easily get buy-in from audience to the 4
pillars concept. This trims negative branches such as TOC perceived as a cult and a
workshop becomes uncontrollable even for not enough experienced facilitators. The
process above is also applicable to more than 100 people.
Mr. Yamashita, a Los Angeles Olympic gold medalist and a national hero attended a
seminar we conducted. Due to his participation, we picked up an issue of repeated
scandals of coaching violence in Judo society as a topic of the Cloud exercise. It is really
a huge issue to the extent that mass media is picking it up every day. Mr. Yamashita is
appointed to be the project leader in Japanese Olympic Committee to change this
situation.
The issue is described as a form of Cloud, which we named “O ･YA･GO･KO･RO”,
meaning parental love or feeling, cloud.
D: Preach loud (sometimes losing temper)
B: Let oneself to do the right thing quickly
A: Deliver higher and higher performance now and in future
C: Make oneself understood by themselves
D’: Teach patiently
When a coach is capable, has ambitious target and has strong passion for his/her athletes,
this dilemma emerges. Stated differently, it is a dilemma for visionary educators. Even
Dr. Goldratt had exactly the same dilemma in a meeting with Japanese executives.
Solving this cloud created “power of cause and effect” article by Eli. In the presentation,
a full analysis of the cloud will be presented.
3 Learning Objectives in this presentation are:
- Be able to practice obtaining buy-in the 4 pillars of TOC
- Accelerate to make TOC the main way using "TOC for education"
- Know a dilemma and solution for visionary educators
3 Anticipated Questions from audience are:
- How do you market TOCfE in your country?
- How can I introduce TOCfE in my country?
- How much trainings are required to conduct such a seminar?