The Center for Government Innovation has been co-hosting Virtual Lean Coffees about once a month to gather Lean facilitators from state and local government so we can learn virtual process improvement facilitation tips and tricks from each other. Another meeting is planned for November, and we would love to have you join us.
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Although workers have always been susceptible to forgetting tasks, the additional communication challenges we work through during a crisis or disruption make any cracks in processes wider, deeper and more damaging. How can we manage the work our teams do so less falls through the cracks?
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Are you finding that you have a few stressors in your life these days? Your dining room table is also a home office and school desk; your cat interrupts important virtual meetings with your boss; so much togetherness! Connecting to a strong sense of purpose might just help you deal more effectively with stress whatever your situation might be.
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A new reporting feature in the Financial Intelligence Tool makes it simple for a local government to project its data into the future.
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The Center for Government Innovation is hosting virtual get-togethers to discuss resource it has developed over the past year.
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This is the second in a series of three posts about managing remote teams based on insights from Lean principles. This time, we look at how to keep a team in sync with each other and senior leadership.
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Managing remote teams is a critical, new skillset to develop. National surveys indicate that a third of local government employees would prefer to continue working remotely. This is the first in a series of blog posts that will look at insights from Lean management principles that can help today.
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Some might call leading “staying in your lane” or “playing your position.” Another way to think of it is simply doing the job the organization hired one to perform. A leader must “lead” even when it seems more difficult and risky to give up control. Determining how to make the transition from a great worker to a better leader can pose a difficult challenge.
… CONTINUE READING → The Financial Intelligence Tool’s (FIT) financial health indicators provide “retrospective” measures of financial health based on historic data. However, any government can use these measures to help plan for the future.
… CONTINUE READING → Our Financial Intelligence Tool (FIT) has long offered a way for users to examine data on specific governments, government types, and specific revenue or expenditure streams. For the first time, FIT has a way to view all important information on a specific government type in one place, using new government-type profiles.
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