This is such a common story: a district develops a strategic plan but then the plan sits on a shelf or in a hard drive while everyone returns to what they were doing. So many organizations go to great lengths to mobilize its employees to develop vision statements, objectives and strategies that decorate walls and websites but struggle to convert the plan into meaningful action.
ViKiwi helped take this Louisiana district to the next level.
ViKiwi worked with district leaders to identify metrics that could show whether the district was making progress toward the goals of the strategic plan, and set annual targets for the district, and for individual departments and schools. Its consultants also worked with department managers to develop tactics that could help the district achieve the targets. To guide the process, they developed a handbook that described what was expected of all the key personnel, and the calendar they needed to follow – everything to drive a culture of continuous improvement. And they designed scorecards to let everyone to know where the district stood, at least quarterly, and developed the processes to gather the data to populate the scorecards. Finally, to help key district personnel do what was expected of them, ViKiwi provided coaching on project management, action planning, interpreting data, developing reports, and other essential skills to sustain the process.
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