Toyota Talent Developing Your People the Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier was written after two prior published books regarding Toyota Company’s management- The Toyota Way and The Toyota Way Fieldbook. The authors decided to come up with this third installment of the Toyota series book because of the intention of explaining in details the 4P model of excellence (philosophy, people, problem solving and process) that was introduced in the previous books. Though this reading material is part of a series it can be read alone, meaning, one may not need to read the prior marketed books to be able to understand this.
I chose to do review with this particular book for Health Care Economics subject because I wanted relate …show more content…
There are challenges expected to come and this is why the Toyota have had taken note of the different problems before, during and after the training and has procured interventions too that these authors listed in the end part of the book. There are lists of demands disclosed but the most applicable to healthcare are: Number one, teaching longer or complex jobs. This happens when a teacher present no more than the student can master in one session (Liker & Meier, 2007, p.262). When teaching long and complex jobs, the trainer must initially divide the job into manageable pieces and present these gradually over time (Liker & Meier, 2007, p.263). There are broad subjects to study and train in health care set-up and this kind challenge is very common but good thing that lessons and teachings must be given in small succession and prioritization must be observed. Thought it is not easy as it is written but at least a strategy to counter this problem was already framed in this book. Secondly, struggle on training when time is limited also comes. What did the writers observed Toyota on taking care of this? To be effective with a limited amount of time, the trainers should identify right away, simple, entry-level work that can be learned quickly and they should be the first ones to be given to the people (Liker & Meier, 2007, p.265). Again, what is emphasized here is the prioritization technique. How about the jobs that require special skills, this is the third one and this is visible to any medical settings as it also has different parts like the human anatomy. I mean one person is dealing with heart, another is dealing with brain, one is keen to the skin and so on and so forth. Conventionally many training phases in companies counter this by involving the trainee watching someone and listening to the explanations of the key points then the trainee would do a return demonstration and the trainer will give