Toyota’s founding fathers accomplished extraordinary successes through tinkering and invention, a passion for always making things better, a principled approach to work, an eye for detail, and a zeal to eliminate wasted effort. After watching this video, you’ll be able to apply some of their approaches.

The Toyota Production System, or TPS, is an integrated company approach that incorporates philosophy, process, people, and problem-solving. After watching this video, you’ll learn how each individual can drive the overall long-term success.

Individuals can begin to learn and apply an understanding of systems thinking to take a holistic view of their own work and life. After watching this video, you’ll understand how systems thinking helps individuals to make decisions that have a longer-term impact.

One of the operational elements of the Toyota Production System is the concept of “one-piece flow.” After watching this video, you’ll understand how people and processes are interconnected through a slow, steady operating model, attention to eliminating waste, and empowerment of each contributor.

Continuous process flow can be applied in everyday work by considering core principles of continuous improvement and efficiency. After watching this video, you’ll be able to take a look at your processes and break them down into smaller steps.

Toyota’s production process has many inter-related components. After watching this video, you will have a high-level understanding of some of these components so that you can consider ways to apply them in your own business processes.

Toyota instills a mindset that helps each individual contribute to efficiency and effectiveness. After watching this video, you’ll have an understanding of the mindset that can drive efficiencies and transform your own work.

The concept of Jidoka is an important element of Toyota’s production process, which empowers workers to stop the assembly line if they notice a quality defect. After you watch this video, you’ll appreciate how it empowers workers to actively own quality in every step of assembly.

By incorporating color, clear signs, visual signals and principles of cleanliness and order, Toyota creates a production environment that allows workers to focus on their tasks and on problem-solving. After you watch this video, you can incorporate them into your own work environment and processes.

By building its leadership principles from the start with each employee, Toyota builds consistency and shared mindsets. After watching this video, you will have a better understanding of these principles including observation, accountability, thinking, and continuous improvement.

Toyota’s approach is derived from the philosophies and mindsets of Toyota’s founders and Japanese culture. After watching this video, you’ll have a new perspective on the model including a sense of purpose, collaboration, interconnectedness, observation, and mindfulness.

Toyota’s scientific problem-solving approach is one of the core aspects of its culture. After watching this video, you will understand the core aspects of this approach, including gathering evidence, applying the “Five Whys” of root cause analysis, testing ideas, and the Plan, Do, Check, Act model.

The problem-solving mindset of Toyota is one that can be applied in everyday life. After watching this video, you will be able to use a structured approach in any problem-solving situation, get clear about the situation, map processes, form and test hypotheses, and implement solutions.

The Toyota Way includes many examples of ways to modify personal and organizational behaviors for long-term, transformational success. After watching this last video of the series, you will be able to shape the road ahead for continued personal and organizational transformation.