Can you REALLY change organizational culture in a 3 week training program?

"Change the culture!" But how? You can't force mindset change. But you can create the conditions for others to change their mindset. #leadershipmindset #culturechange #toyotaleadership

When Toyota joined forces with GM in the 1980s, they set out to take GM’s worst-performing plant and transform its culture.

The approach:

❌ They didn’t mandate.
❌ They didn’t force.
❌ They didn't lecture.

Instead, they immersed leaders in a new way of working — learning-by-doing, side-by-side with their Toyota counterparts in Japan — to experience what the possibilities of that change could be.

One year later, the NUMMI plant was GM's best performing:

✔️ Absenteeism dropped from 20% to 2%
✔️ Quality increased to Toyota’s standards
✔️ Productivity soared and the time it took assembling a car was cut in half

In this episode of Chain of Learning, Toyota leader Isao Yoshino — the leader behind the design and delivery of NUMMI’s leader training program in Japan — shares how he and his team (including John Shook) approached training 100s of American and helping them become a "new me".

They created the space for leaders to shift their own mindsets — no pushing, no forcing — just powerful opportunities to learn and grow.

Because forcing change rarely works. You might get compliance, but not lasting impact.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀.

🎧 Tune in or watch to discover the inside story behind one of the most famous business transformations in history — and how you can leverage these successful principles to lead the changes you envision for your company too.

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