How to Respect Red Tape and Encourage Continuous Improvement
Inspecting red tape and the reasons why it exists can help your agency decide whether to remove or reinforce it, ultimately improving your agency’s work.
Posts Tagged: continuous improvement
A CISO’s 365 Days Journey – Part 3
This is Part 3 of my Chief Information Security Officer’s 365-day journey. Read on to learn about the importance of continuous improvement and feedback.
From Containers to Kubernetes: The Definitions, Connections and More
In this blog post, we define the terms and explain the connections of a modern software factory.
The Continuous Improvement Framework: Implications for Public Leaders
Public leaders can effectively implement the continuous improvement framework by focusing on three goals.
Reducing the Risk of Employee Burnout
Discussing frustrations does not have to be unproductive. Here is a process that can help you turn a discussion about frustrations into a plan for change.
Knowledge Is Like a Tree: It Needs to Be Nurtured and Harvested to Flourish
In order to stay relevant and sustainable, implement ways to document new knowledge every day, nurture it through systems and training routinely, and harvest it at least quarterly.
Leadership as Practice: Why Be a Student of Leadership
Approaching leadership as a practice can help us avoid the leadership gap that occurs when we understand our leadership title to be a license to wield power, rather than the responsibility to offer inspiration.
The Key to Continuous Process Improvement Projects
Before diving into the CIP pool, consider whether doing the process improvement project makes sense in the big-picture direction your agency wants to head
Stop Talking About Yesterday
If I described our work in the present and future, wouldn’t that be more compelling, and interesting? Discussing how we work hard to support the continuous improvement culture, capacity, and results for state government? Yes, yes it would.
Cake Projects at Work
You can’t have cake projects every day at work. No way would you ever get your ‘real’ job done. So, how can you get that “I’m eating cake!” feeling from your current assignments, until the next big ‘cake project’ comes along?