Performance Improvement Sandy Cameron

Change Programme Objective To embed a culture of continuous improvement in all social work services To improve outcomes for the people who use services

History Ran in parallel with 21st Century Review Initial political driver was a performance framework Performance improvement framework for children and families produced How good is our team produced Political agenda moved on to Single Outcome Agreements

SWIA Self evaluation Guide now published Based on Performance Inspection Model Supported by an e-tool

In all of this the aim has been to shift the focus onto outcomes and away from the tendency to focus targets on inputs and outputs.

Potential to develop the e-tool into a vehicle for frontline services to explore their performance as part of embedding the culture of continuous improvement.

Approaches to Performance Improvement The Weavers triangle. Aim Outcomes Activities/outputs

Vanguard LEAN Methodology defines customers and seeks to eliminate non value adding activities

CitiStat - developed in Baltimore USA Uses recent operational data on key performance indicators as basis for discussion Development of actionable data rather than available data

Standard Life Investments - Organisational Raid The Talent Agenda using Gallup Strengths Finder lists 34 talent themes listed in order for the individual Employee engagement using the Gallup12 Used annually to measure engagement.

Gallup 12 Do you know what is expected of you at work Do you have the right equipment and materials to do your work right At work do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? In the last seven days have you received recognition or praise for doing good work/ Does your supervisor or someone at work seem to care about you as a person?

Is there someone at work who encourages your development? At work do your opinions seem to count? Does the mission/purpose of your organisation make you feel your job is important? Are your fellow employees committed to doing quality work? Do you have a best friend at work? In the last 6 months has someone at work talked to you about your progress?

In the last year have you had opportunities to learn and grow? Personalisation of staff!

Next Steps Embedding the culture Using the tools Not good enough to say we are too busy for all of this. Develop the research agenda Evidence based practice. Prepared to think the unthinkable.

Performance improvement links in to the other change programmes