Engaging in Continuous Professional Development is an ongoing process and allows individuals to continually ‘up skill’ or ‘re-skill’. Also, it is a great opportunity to spend time with colleagues and like-minded people, wanting to improve themselves in their chosen professions.

At a recent 2-day workshop held at Irene Country lodge in Pretoria, the ODI team used the opportunity to discuss our learning with our colleagues and help identify new areas for development and ideas for other development activities.

Working to achieve an organisation’s overall strategy, and aligning goals gets everyone on the same page and moving in the same direction. That is what Key 2 of the 20 Keys system for continuous improvement is all about – Goal Alignment.

A commitment to life-long learning and improvement is at the heart of what we do at ODI.  Making use of the 20 Keys system for continuous improvement, the ODI team revisited the key concepts of Key 2:

• Effective organisation structure, with clearly defined responsibilities
• Coaching on employee performance development
• Defining and cascading vision, mission, values, and goals down to all organisation levels
• Implementing mini-businesses
• Aligning top-down leadership, and bottom-up participation

Reflecting on what we’ve learned and what we’ll do differently as a result, was an energising experience. Spending time together, asking ourselves how we can improve, and opening our minds to new possibilities, once again hi-lighted the importance of continuous improvement and goal alignment at all levels.

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Keys 2 & 15 of the 20 Keys system for continuous improvement, featured very strongly at ODI’s recent strategy meeting held at The African Pride Irene Country Lodge in Gauteng.

ODI’s Chairman – Roland Röhrs, welcomed the ODI team and quoted Peter Drucker: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” To read more about Culture’s role in organisations, click here.

The ODI team then focused on Key 2 of the 20 Keys system for continuous improvement, and it is all about Goal Alignment and rationalising the system.

It focuses on having an effective organisation structure, with goal alignment at all levels. Within the structure, the various work groups are organised as “mini-businesses”, or MBs. Each MB is guided by Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety and Morale performance indicators (QCDSM measures).

They key concepts of Key 2 are:

• Effective organisation structure, with clearly defined responsibilities
• Coaching on employee performance development
• Defining and cascading vision, mission, values, and goals down to all organisation levels
• Implementing mini-businesses
• Aligning top down leadership, and bottom-up participation
• Implementing a management system for the implementation of the 20 Keys

Keep an eye out for part two of this series about Key 15 of the 20 Keys system for continuous improvement at our recent strategy meeting held at The African Pride Irene Country Lodge in Gauteng.

To read more about ODI’s Continuous Operations Improvement System, click here.

ODI’s benchmark system provides a tool to benchmark organisations against international best practices. It describes the steps towards improvement through 5 levels in each Key, with the use of practical, easy to use checksheets and picture based maps.

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