Joining me for Episode #325 of the podcast is Andrea Hardaway, an operational leader and the executive director of the Association for Vocal Disorders.
Andrea and I first crossed paths through LinkedIn, seeing what she shares there and vice versa. We also had a chance to visit a hospital together in Florida last year to learn about their Lean improvement work. We have enough professional interests in common, I thought it made sense to record a conversation and share it here with the listeners.
Andrea has worked in manufacturing, healthcare, and other parts of the service sector and has seen common themes across industries. This includes the opportunity to better use metrics in a way that resonates with staff and is connected to improvement work, something I'm also very interested in.
So, we talk about that and more in this episode.
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Topics and notes for this episode:
- Can you share a bit of your background as it relates to metrics in the workplace?
- What are some basic best practices for metrics?
- Can data lead to better decisions (and not just based on one data point)
- What is actually happening? What's the story?
- Common themes:
- Quality, Finance, Schedule, Morale, Satisfaction
- Are there differences in services? If so, what?
- What are indicators that a metric is actually resonating with a team or department?
- How do metrics connect to me?
- A “visceral response” to fluctuations? Are there “random reactions?”
- How are empathy and efforts to build trust taken into account?
- Why does Andrea go into a situation assuming she is not trusted?
- What makes a really good goal?
- How can you get the teams to challenge themselves?
- What can you do if you feel a metric is not resonating?
- Her book recommendation: How to Measure Anything
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