The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - Where There is Simplicity, There is Efficiency | Foundations Friday 84

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

I share my perspective on creating more efficiencies when we teach people core troubleshooting and problem-solving skills like the Foundational Five.

Welcome to the KevTalks podcast. Now that you're logged in, let's get locked on and hear people's compelling stories, share industry-leading best practices, and the hope that we can all make progress together. Be sure to visit KevTalksPod.com to read more articles and in-depth information about these great episodes and learn more from leaders in the healthcare, technology, wellness, and public safety spaces. For now, though, let's fly back into this episode in 3, 2, 1. hospital incident command system. I think it's too scripted. It doesn't build more resilient and efficient people, but teaching them core skills on how to bring people together like this foundational five, right? How to get the leader's intent, how to develop objectives, how to coordinate resources, make an org chart, communicate. That is what you do. And there's some of that baked into the hospital incident command system, but I don't think we should

prescribe these boxes should say these things. And you should set these units up. Now, I think you should consider like their job aids, hey, consider these things, and then give people the skills to make those structures themselves. I think the same thing applies to project management, right? The project management body of knowledge is an industry standard. So is like the agile, you know, guide and all those things. And they're good. They're guides. I love that. You know, it's a guide on the agile world. But any of those systems, any of the prescriptive things, we take the elements, we use them. But if I can teach somebody the core things they need to do, like the foundational five, then I think they can solve any problem. And I'm going to take what I

need from the PMBOK or from the agile practice guide or from whatever other resource and use it and teach folks to think on their own, to hit on the big elements, what needs done, who needs to do it by when, as opposed to it has to go down this road and use these forms and this exact wording and process. And especially if you're leading teams, if you're managing programs, you've got to give folks the flexibility to do it their way while giving them guidance. And it's also good to ask them, do I need to solve this for you or help you or something like that. But if we can teach people these skills on what are the bare bones that we need, then we can plan whether it's a sunny day

and we have all our equipment or it's the worst day and nothing shows up. But their skills, their simplicity will make things more efficient and then we can add on fancy stuff down the road. So thank you all for being here on the KevTalks podcast, for listening to this 84th edition of the Foundations Friday series.

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We'll keep sharing people's stories. We will keep sharing industry best practices and by way, me and my guests, and we'll all make progress together, right? Similar to the name of the People Process Progress podcast before this, but the concept and, but really, again, looking at some of those areas, you know, with some outliers, but in healthcare and technology and public safety and wellness, which encompasses a whole lot of things, mind, body, spirit. So I hope your spirit's doing well today. Thank you so much. Remember, have a plan, stay informed, and get involved so you can make a difference. Godspeed, everyone.