You run the conversation with the same five questions and find every answer again
Guide improvement conversations with the KATA coaching questions, capture insights from each session, and track how coaching patterns evolve over time. Coaching Reflections turns ad-hoc conversations into a systematic development practice that builds problem-solving capability across your entire team.
Benefits
Guided Coaching Questions
The five KATA coaching questions are built into the workflow, ensuring every coaching conversation follows the proven pattern. Coaches stay on track, and learners develop consistent scientific thinking habits.
Session Documentation
Capture the key insights, obstacles identified, and next experiments from each coaching session. Build a coaching history that shows how a learner's thinking evolves over weeks and months.
Pattern Recognition
Over time, the coaching log reveals patterns such as recurring obstacles, common thinking traps, and breakthrough moments. This data helps coaches adjust their approach and helps organizations identify systemic barriers to improvement.
Scalable Coaching Practice
With structured prompts and templates, even new coaches can facilitate effective improvement conversations. This enables organizations to scale coaching beyond a few experts to every team leader.
How It Works
Start a Coaching Session
Select the learner and the improvement challenge you are coaching on. The tool displays the current target condition and the last experiment's results as context for the conversation.
Walk Through the Five Questions
The tool prompts each coaching question in sequence. What is the target condition? What is the actual condition now? What obstacles are you addressing? What is your next step? When can we check what you learned?
Capture Reflections
Document the learner's responses, the coach's observations, and any obstacles identified. Note the next experiment the learner will run before the next coaching cycle.
Review Coaching History
Access the complete coaching timeline for any learner. Track how their target conditions have progressed, how their thinking has matured, and which obstacles have been overcome.
Use Cases
- -Daily KATA coaching cycles between a coach and a learner
- -Structured reflection after Kaizen events and improvement experiments
- -Training new coaches with the guiding questions behind each of the five coaching questions
- -Coaching conversations by phone or video, with the coach noting the answers in the app
- -Leadership development through documented coaching practice
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the KATA coaching questions?
The five questions run as follows. (1) What is the target condition? (2) What is the actual condition now? (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) When can we go and see what we have learned from taking that step?
Can multiple coaches work with the same learner?
Yes. The coaching history is stored per learner and is accessible to any authorized coach. This enables seamless handoffs and ensures continuity when coaches rotate or are unavailable.
How does coaching data stay private?
All coaching data is stored locally on your device. Nothing is sent to external servers. You control who has access to coaching records through the app's sharing features.