Learning and improvement in continuous process
Knowledge
Helping your organization understand what it knows, which drives what you do, allows you to effectively create strategies to develop the knowledge and skills to be successful.
Whether it is their understanding of customers' needs and the business environment or the skills and experience of staff – All businesses have access to an extensive pool of knowledge!
Useful and important knowledge already exists in your business. The challenge is harnessing this knowledge in a coherent and productive way.
How effective is your business currently at using its knowledge?
How are your internal processes for gathering and sharing information?
Are there successful ways of generating ideas and do staff have a good grasp of what's happening?
Is knowledge management, acquisition and distribution a continuing process?
Is it central to your business' strategy?
Improvement
A lot of improvement is about changing mindsets. It is about having the tools, techniques and confidence to work with your colleagues to try something that is different.
Understanding improvement will help you to:
• Improve the outcome and experiences for those who use your services
• Improve the flow of customers and information going through your
organization
• Design systems to avoid mistakes
• Improve the working environment for staff
• Increase job satisfaction for yourself and others
• Identify your own development needs as well as the needs of others
• Build your individual competence and confidence
• Develop excellent business cases when you do need extra resources
• Understand and influence the culture you work in