Coaching Kata Questions

A set of routine questions that aims to help develop coaching skills for the person asking and to help guide learners through an improvement cycle.

Coaching Kata is a great starting point for questions in leader rounding and catchball practices.

The Five Questions

  1. What is the Target Condition?
  2. What is the Actual Condition now? Reflect on the Last Step Taken (Because you don't actually know what the result of a step will be!)
    1. What did you plan as your Last Step?
    2. What did you Expect?
    3. What Actually Happened?
    4. What did you Learn?
  3. What Obstacles do you think are preventing you from reaching the target condition? Which *One are you addressing now?
  4. What is your Next Step? (Next experiment) What do you expect?
  5.  How quickly can we go and see what we Have Learned from taking that step?

*You'll often work on the same obstacle with several experiments