This is not the Karate Kid Dojo. However, similarities to Wax On Wax Off repetition does apply here and you will have your Mr. Miyagi in your coaches . Centene has adopted the Dojo idea from Target and introduced dojos into our environment this year with success. One of our goals is to help scale technical best practices across the enterprise through the hands on dojo approach. This is the idea of one team, 2 coaches, 6 weeks, real work, using best practices. We will share our collective experiences through a series of stories on our approach to team learning. We will go over what a dojo is and why it is important. We will cover the roles and how we got started along with sharing how we run the dojo with the lessons learned. We ran into some unexpected wins from the dojo experience we will share. We will include everything needed for the dojo outside of the dojo including the assessments, priority and backlog of the dojos along with the marketing and hiring for the dojos too. Don’t forget the logistics. We will share the different experiences we have had in all of them and share what stuck after we left.

Our goal is to equip you with enough information to experiment with the idea of a dojo in your company if you are in need of a fresh way of revamping your training and coach approach in your organization.

Learning Outcomes:

- What is a dojo and why is it important?
- What are the roles in the dojo?
- How did we get started?
- How do we run the dojo?
- What have we learned?
- What were the unexpected wins in the dojo?
- Outside of the dojo for the dojo
- Assessing, Backlog, Prioritizing, Marketing and Hiring