No doubt, the last 2 years has held you back; hindered your progress and exhausted you. What are you doing to emerge stronger and more impactful in 2022? 

If you have plans for you or your team, reply and share! What are your priorities? What are you challenges to emerging strong?

If you are looking for some strategies and tips to emerge stronger, read on. 

HOW to emerge stronger in 2022? Here are 5 ways to improve your and your team's 2022 performance!

1. GET THE ORGANIZATION FOCUSED.

Without focus you may not be making progress towards your Vision and optimizing your resources on the most important things! Use a reliable and comprehensive approach to getting focused like Hoshin Planning – it will help you find the priorities, set clear and measurable goals, and integrate all efforts. Link to getting focused webinar.   Link to learning how to do this.

• Do some visioning – Where do we want to be in 3 years, 10 years?
• What is my data telling me? Where are the gaps? the opportunities? What are the barriers to accelerating progress?
• What are the priority improvement areas and goals for 2022? What are the projects we will charter and make happen THIS YEAR?
• How will I measure progress?
• Communicate, communicate and communicate the plan – so that everyone knows what is important.

2. GET THE PROJECTS ROLLING.

Improvement projects benefit greatly from a step-by-step information and knowledge processing approach. It helps to get better solutions, bigger results, and ultimately more efficient use of your resources. Think PLAN-DO-STUDY-ACT and use the steps well! An approach, like PrISM™, will guide teams through a. goal setting, b. data collection, c. problem solving, d. trying the solutions, e. learning from testing, and f. effectively installing the solution into the fabric daily work. Accelerate progress using advanced improvement methods linked here.

3. HELP THE WORK TEAMS SOLVE LOCAL PROBLEMS AND IMPROVE DAILY.

Work teams are at the heart of implementing new processes, solving local problems, and bubbling up new ideas. Supercharge their effort with improvement huddles! Huddles are a team-engagement method and process that focuses work teams on important team-based measures, helps them to solve problems, and create actions that continually improve their process and make it easier for them to succeed. They are an important part of installing improvement project outputs AND continually improving. More on team huddles.

4. GET YOURSELF IN A HIGHER VALUE ADDED - LESS WASTE SPACE.

Take some time out at the beginning of the year and look at how you are spending your time. What is truly adding value from a customer’s perspective? See 👀 the waste in your work, processes, and environment. Eliminate the waste in your day and provide yourself more value adding time.

Take the waste challenge.

Learn other prioritization methods.

5. ACKNOWLEDGE AND CELEBRATE EFFORT AND RESULTS.

Remind yourself to pause, provide constructive feedback, and acknowledgement (personal and specific) for the progress of the organization, projects, work teams and individuals. Find the positives and reinforce them frequently. Catch people doing it right and say so!