Accelerate Your Performance
Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.
As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence.
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Accelerate Your Performance
Avoid Choosing the Status Quo
Continuous improvement is a process, a mindset, and a set of tools. It's organization-wide and specific to each individual. At its core are the people who do the work. Through sustained, system-wide improvement, teams can deeply understand and solve problems, while thriving through crises. Two experts in continuous improvement, Dr. John Toussaint and Dr. Christina Dixon join us again to discuss the biggest obstacles to sustaining improved results over time, and how to prioritize improvement as the real work to be done.
This episode answers questions such as:
- How are organizations using continuous improvement to eliminate gaps and disparities in student achievement?
- Why is an improvement culture so beneficial during a crisis?
- Should organizations start an improvement journey now?
To hear the first part of Janet's interview with John and Christina, listen to episode #142: The 5 Behavioral Traits for Sustaining Improvement.
Recommended Resources: Busting Through Barriers, Where is the Noise?, Short Cycle Scorecard Tool & How do We Know if a Change is an Improvement?
Recommended Podcasts: Becoming an Improvement Organization, Questions for Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement: Where do you Start? & Building an Army of Improvers