"Modernization" - the Jetson's certainly had it figured out. They seem to be enjoying the results of a modern life - daily life was faster, easier, better, and cleaner. Where are you with Modernization? your team? your organization? 

How often do you feel like you are behind the curtain manually juggling and connecting all the parts to get the benefits of modernization? Continual Impact is here to help you achieve the happy calm modern work life. Not the flying around part, like on the Jetsons. We're talking about your work life void of people turnover, ineffective on-boarding, and limited workforce development, poor utilization of resources and data, and duct taped integration of technology and processes. 

Enjoy some strategies to fuel your creativity when accelerating your high-performance journey in today's modern environment:

 1. Get Focused

Be purposeful and data-based when defining the journey to modernization. Begin with some big and bold visioning and then narrow down to specific tactics and actions. 

• Create/refresh your mission, vision, and values. Link to more
• Gather data to create a 3 year strategic plan. Immediately cascade the plan to annual plans and team project. Link to more
• Conduct system-wide evaluations of your entire organization and each department to determine where to best focus your resources, efforts, and technology to improve outcomes. Link to more
• Contact us technical assistance in co-developing and co-leading data modernization implementation project plans. Link to more

2. Take a Data-Based Approach to People

• Again, before diving in, gather data to assess your workforce. What knowledge and skills gaps exist? What is our turnover rate? What is our on-boarding time? How about our mentoring and coaching?
• Analyze each team's capacity, productivity, and a flow analysis to truly understand the gaps and needs
• Establish, resource, and implement workforce development plans and activities.



3. Develop Everyone's Skills 

Building off of your workforce development plans, invest in your people. They are the critical key to your modernization success.

• Provide Role-based training along with time for immediate application of the learning so that it sticks and creates benefits. 
• Develop in-house improvement skills so that you can continually lead complex problem solving and coach on-going skill development of others. 
• Nurture the proficiency of everyone's core skills, see list. They will elevate everyone's performance. Link to training for everyone.

4. Facilitate and Implement Transformational Improvements (beyond the improvements everyday, by everyone)

• Expand, improve, accelerate your team's capacity using advanced continual quality improvement methods like Kaizen, Mistake Proofing, and Flow. Link to more.
• Integrate technology into work processes so that systems enable you, not you working behind the curtain to make the technology work for you. 
• And lastly - focus on your desired goals and outcomes to define what data and process transformation improvements are needed to quickly, easily, and in a high-quality way delight your customers! 

Welcome to this modern world! Together let's define it, create it, and enjoy a Jetson-like environment. Strap on your jetpacks; here we go 🚀.