The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®) includes a proven best practice when holding meetings. Participants grade the meeting at its conclusion on a scale of 1 to 10; 10 being this highest score, meeting or exceeding all expectations. I’m told from EOS® Implementers that a score of 8 or better is solid work. “Ten” is over-the-top-excellent.
The Process Triage participants scored (below) our all-day workshop as part of the sponsor’s closing remarks. They are our client’s go-to subject matter experts. We process triaged one of their most strategically important functions. The agenda included collaborative process mapping, a Process Capability Goal review, nominating Pain Points that inhibit this goal, then process triaging these pain points into solution proposals. Finally, they ranked these proposals and signed up to mentor their implementation.
It’s an intense day, built on delegating and elevating those who are closest to the work to improve the work flow across the whole team.
For reasons of confidentiality, I can’t mention the client or their process, but here’s a photo of the scores.
By the way, the most successful post-Process Triage improvement implementers are running on EOS®.
EOS® is a registered trademark of EOS Worldwide, Inc.
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It’s that time of year; mid-summer about six weeks from Labor Day (all ready?!). Time to review what I’ve learned from our amazing clients and their triaging teams, as well as reflect on the work of our facilitators. I’m living that sometimes gleeful, sometimes nerve-racking challenge of growing this little company. It’s all about balancing a complicated and often competing list of to-do’s while making enough cash to on-board the best talent one can find to delegate stuff you must if you’re going to realize the vision. It’s a lot of the Happiness of Pursuit.
I’m privileged to be a Vistage® / TEC® speaker. My primary topic is Business Process Triaging. I was introduced and on-boarded to the Vistage® speaker community in 2013 by Kansas City chair Jeff Hutsell, a friend for life. Next year’s scheduling begins in September and is usually completed by mid-October. The national headquarters has a terrific team of speaker coordinators and asks speakers to organize their topic(s) around what matters most to their C-Suite members: The Key Decisions, The Big Idea, and Think Abouts.
My program targets executives of mid-size enterprises and department heads within large organizations where the service or product’s value chain is complex enough to require a team to perform. One reality in organizations this size is the core process (and the team living it) experience mass casualty events — times when the entire process comes under extreme stress. It appears to fail, or about to fail in almost every step, as if the entire process is under assault. Business Process Triaging is all about what leaders and teams do to get and sustain control of the environment. To find and focus on the best series of tasks and projects to navigate the growth they face.
THE BIG IDEA
Equip your Go-To Team* to handle Maximum Business Process Stress and build a more cohesive, situationally aware, emotionally smarter, business savvy organization while you’re at it. Business processes break as they grow, so make dealing with it a competitive cultural advantage. Be able to Business Process Triage when it’s needed.
* Go-To’s are your expert task performers and mentors, your believables when you need to know what’s really going. They’re your high-motor, high-passion, dedicated professionals.
THE BIG QUESTIONS & DECISIONS
Consider your core business process – from customer first touch all the way to service or product delivery to cash:
You want a culture of continuous operational improvement driven by those closest to the work, that takes day-to-day issue management off your plate so you can focus on longer horizon, bigger decision stuff. What and how do you delegate?
All hell has broken out across the whole process! Errors! Delays! Rework! What do you do that will settle everyone down right now? The result must put you on the best path to resolve things and prevent recurrence.
You want to sell to a Private Equity investor. What might you demonstrate about your core process that makes you a compelling candidate?
How might you raise your core team’s emotional IQ – that interpersonal empathy that glues highest performing teams together?
After an explanation and practical exercise in process triaging, and a review of a few case studies..
THINK ABOUT…
Delegating issue processing in a business process to a team closest to the work.
When it comes to core process issues, leverage the wisdom that the team has more situational awareness then the individual contributor.
Insisting your Go-To’s also teach, not just do.
Insisting on measurement-based issue processing while trusting your Go-To’s estimates.
Considering the gap between your goals and your capabilities; the greater the gap, the more likely the process’s design will fail when you attempt to scale.
There are times to deliberatelysort (triage) before you solve – similar to a medical mass casualty event.
Growing enterprises will be under constant core process stress. Embrace it. Design your culture for it. The triaging protocol is a proven skill.
The program’s exhibits; just how much process intelligence can you gather from triaging?
What is the opportunity value and cost of not having a Go-To team issue processing your core process right now?
So, my shingle’s out for next year’s speaking calendar. The three-hour talk, exercise, and case study review makes a solid executive staff half-day team builder.
Closing note: If you’re a C-Suiter and not a member of a peer advisory group, I encourage you to consider one like Vistage®. Reach out to me. It’s likely I know of a chair in your city. Email Rosey
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One of our company’s core values is leaving every customer with a referable quality touch.Every time, every touch.
We also want to give back to our communities. For example, when it makes sense, we waive our workshop fees if the triaging enterprise helps children. Like Dr. Melanie Macrorie’s team at Autism From the Start (an amazing autistic preschool) or Lee Nasehi’s crew at Lighthouse Central Florida(vision impaired), or Denise Gurule’s shop at FeedAmerica San Deigo, orLonnie Vanderclise and Kelly Wilson’s amazing work at Weave Gotcha Covered, a work release program reuniting moms with their families.
At the writing of this post, there is a media storm about separating one in six children of adult foreign citizens who attempt to trespass into the United States with their minor children* (five of six children were already separated when their parents sent them with, or are trafficked by other adults).
Under current law (decades old), the adults are queued to Homeland Security processing and their minor children are queued to Health and Human Services (HHS), an arrangement codified and enforced for many years. Parents and children are usually reunited promptly (the same day typically) unless an adult trespasser claims asylum, at which point HHS may only care and protect the children for 20 days — likely less than the asylum process. It can get messy, but this separation was entirely the result of the trespasser’s choosing and our amazing American compassion for the downtrodden. We separate children at the southern border if a familial or custodial relationship cannot be established (fraud), if there is suspicion that the children are victims of human trafficking, or if the adult is referred for prosecution for illegal entry.
So let’s fix it. We need to agree on what the process is (as codified in the law), then triage it against a capability goal that, if delivered, fulfills our core values. I will personally facilitate the triage.
What we know from hundreds of Process Triage workshops is any process under siege will benefit from a triage session, similar to a medical facility during a mass casualty event. Triaging determines the type of treatment or solution and queues these solutions to address the most urgent and efficacious first.
We’ll need an Executive Sponsor and the smartest, go-to, believable experts who live and work the process. I have no doubts we can stack a list of implementable improvements of what to fix first, consistent with our national values, responsibilities, and compassions.
* There is no such thing as an illegal immigrant. Immigrant is a status assigned to a foreign or alien citizen recognized by our Immigration and Naturalization Service; a status granted by our sovereign government, and not self-assigned by the person seeking to immigrate or mislabeled by a private citizen or confused media. If one does not have immigrant status, one is respectfully assumed to be a foreign citizen. And one should be treated with the respect, terms and conditions according to our laws and treaties — just as we wish respect when traveling abroad. If we break another sovereign nation’s visitation laws, we should expect to be treated as they see fit.
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It’s always great to receive Process Triage workshop feedback from our sponsors. We were privileged to triage with MRI Global, a long-established research and development institution, headquartered in Kansas City. Tom Sack’s at the helm and offered the following insights after their triage:
We fully embraced TQM to support our efforts to improve processes and continually improve our operations. TQM proved to be very valuable for us and I am delighted to see the ProcessTriage take the TQM approach to the next level. Where TQM would have taken us weeks to get to a prioritized list of improvement activities, ProcessTriage got us there in 1 day…while not glossing over topics or issues. I applaud the ProcessTriage team for creating a robust, thorough and organized approach to process improvement that fits the pace of today’s business environment.
TQM — Total Quality Management is some industrial strength stuff. So to be favorably associated with that body of knowledge, and bringing something more to that party is pleasing.
ProcessTriage — faster than a TQM!
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The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University. From #8 to #4 in the nation. How ’bout them apples!
While our Process Triage workshop is a one-day intense event, its effects can be profoundly positive when the team’s improvement proposals are implemented. This is the case with the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. We met Dean Linda McCauley in Atlanta when Rosey presented at Vistage Chair Larry Hart’s group in 2014. Dean McCauley triaged their student recruiting and student life processes that fall, selecting faculty and staff go-to’s as triagers. The initial improvements list focused on these “producer” improvements. They were followed by groups of student triagers to get a Voice of Customer perspective — “customer’s” improvements. These students generated a ranked list of proposals as well. Dean McCauley directed the customer/student list be worked first.
The Director of Recruiting, Jasmine Hoffman project managed the improvement efforts. The successes led to Jasmine and Rosey teaming up to present to the Graduate Nursing School Recruiting Association’s annual meeting the following year. Rosey presented the theory of it and Jasmine presented Emory’s case study results. That led to us triaging in other nursing schools such as California Baptist (Dean Geneva Oaks), Case Western Reserve (Dean Mary Kerr) and Johns Hopkins University (Dean Patricia Davidson, four processes triaged). So we’re well acquainted with some of the highest ranked nursing schools in the nation.
We were delighted to conduct a refresh triage at Emory this year. Dean McCauley returned as sponsor and Jasmine served as host. One of the returning triagers, Arnita Howard, Director of Careers Services and Student Affairs offers her insights:
Process Triage in brief, is designed to evaluate a business process and identify areas for improvement. When first approached about participating in this “exercise” it seemed more like a way to pinpoint, with incredible detail and specificity, all of the ways that our process fell short. Two intense days evaluating how we interact with and serve our prospective students from the prospect stage to orientation yielded some incredibly helpful feedback about how we might increase enrollment and convert more of those prospective students into admitted and enrolled members of our community.
Fast forward to 2018, almost four years later, and we are once again coordinating a triage to evaluate our student life cycle from orientation to alumni. We have experienced unprecedented application growth as a result of the strategic enrollment initiatives implemented after the first triage in 2014 and now we have to figure out how to manage increased enrollment. During this second exercise we triaged our student experience and I must admit, I am genuinely excited to participate in a process that is sure to yield a positive return on investment. Initially, I was skeptical and frankly threatened by what might be revealed by evaluating our business process. This time, I look forward to hearing from members of our team about how we can transform the overall student experience, thereby increasing our student satisfaction rate by 100%.
Process Triage challenges you to take an in depth look at the services and/or product that you provide, identify pain points, and then allows YOU to think strategically about how to prioritize improvements. Arnita Howard
We couldn’t have said it better.
From #8 to #4 in the nation.
Process triaging helps with the right list of improvements. In the right hands, good things happen.
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Well check this off my bucket list! I’m delighted to announce EOS® implementer extraordinaire Chris White and I have co-authored a short primer on Process Triaging. It’s a quick 32-page read that skips a rock across the Process Triaging pond, touching the essential points.
We subtitled it “How to Build Repeatable, Sustainable and Scalable Core Processes in Your Business.” The primer covers how process triaging with your own expert core team — your Go-To’s who live the process works. It’s about setting the conditions where senior leaders can delegate the day-to-day tactical improvements to those closest to the work. Doing that well drives a powerful, continuous improvement capability. Chris adds additional thoughts on how companies running on EOS® can apply Process Triaging to deepen their EOS® effectiveness.
If your new to Process Triaging, this very modestly priced primer can get you acquainted with us.
The Process Triaging Primer
So — if you want to understand the essential outline of Process Triaging, this is it! As always, reach out and request a complementary case study of a company in your industry. It’s likely we have one.
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Just a note to thank some of our 2017 clients for the privilege of supporting their continuous improvement culture. Logo’s link to their home pages.
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When you set new performance goals, consider stress testing the business processes that deliver the goals.
Process Triaging is a good way do this testing.
The triage findings — all generated by your own experts, indicate the types and sizes of improvement proposals your team says it will take to meet your goals.
Process Triaging generates an improvement proposal to address a pain point that inhibits your, and your team’s goals.
Each improvement proposal is triaged to one of four solutions: ANALYZE if the likely cause is not obvious, DESIGN a best practice that addresses the pain, TRAIN (or learn) an existing best practice , and/or ENFORCE a best practice.
The first two — ANALYZE and DESIGN indicate a process design focus. Unless the process is designed better, additional cycles will just produce more — crap. The profile below shows a triage profile with 88% of the improvement work focused on analyzing pain points (36%) and designing best practices (52%). Almost half of the improvements Big Now project-size efforts — lots of stressful heavy lifting. This profile is common to start-ups or established companies who have big-gap growth objectives.
52% Small Now’s, 48% Big Now’s, 36% Analyze’s, 52% Design’s, 12% Train’s, No Enforces
At the other end of the scale, a triage profile with mostly TRAIN & ENFORCE existing best practices indicates the process doesn’t have significant design issues. The focus is mostly people and logistics — right people in right seats. The profile below is one of a franchise-quality shop. Most of the best practices are in place. The team’s stresses will be resource management — on-boarding new hires and focused process supervision.
This profile has 94% Train and/or Enforce Best Practices — entirely scalable.
When you reset your strategic objectives, consider ‘stress testing’ your core processes to manage everyone’s expectations and make sure you’re working on the enabling improvements first.
I offer my company’s Process Triaging Service to any Jurisdiction seeking to establish and sustain a best practice for hosting satisfying Constitutionally peaceable assemblies for all stakeholders in such events. The fee for this facilitated triage service is reimbursement of travel related expenses (refundable coach-class air, Marriott Courtyard-class lodging, rental car, etc.) for the first five (5) jurisdictions that request the triage workshop.
I need the jurisdictional Executive Sponsor to contact me at rosey@processtriage.com, first come, first served.
The offer consists of a facilitated a 1-Day Process Triage Workshop (Agenda HERE) for the requesting Jurisdiction Executive Sponsor. It requires the participation of the jurisdiction’s Go-To experts who know all the stakeholder tasks — what you have to actually DO to deliver a satisfying assembly.
My company has experience in triaging public sector core processes, such as the Medicaid Enrollment Process and the processes within a Department of Motor Vehicles. I don’t have many government executives in my contacts list or Linked-In network. Please forward this to any public sector executives you think would be interested. Thanks.
BACKGROUND
The violent protests related to the monuments that earlier generations mounted, and other ‘anti-Free Speech’ counter-protests have offended me in a purely violation-of-our-constitution manner. While I personally abhor the speech of some participants (such as white supremacists) the lack of enforcement of our constitutionally sacred right to peaceably assemble, by allowing blue-shirt thugs to violently counter-protest, disgusts me more. I was potty-trained as a junior officer in the Army Rangers to Lead the Way! I seek to lead a solution to this nonsense and not merely complain, sit on my arse, and cower before jack-booted, face-hiding, thug-enabling political correctness. Our Constitution is color blind and abhors identity politics! We are a nation of individuals, secured in our rights to Life, Liberty, and the (constitutionally legal) pursuit of happiness. And I’m friggin’ UNHAPPY!
THE TRIAGE WORKSHOP DELIVERABLE
A Peaceable Assembly Process Map suitable for training, triaging, and continuous process improvement.
A Prioritized List of bottoms-up, Go-To expert process improvement proposals that, if implemented, deliver the desired Constitutionally protected peaceable assembly within the jurisdiction.
A ‘Peaceable Assembly Management Team” who are more situationally aware and each other and have each other’s back to ensure peaceable assemblies are consistently delivered.
A case study for all triage participants to present to future teams to demonstrate the participant’s ability to lead world-class team-driven issue processing and continuous improvement.
WHO ARE WE AND WHY ARE WE QUALIFIED TO HELP?
ProcessTriage® (PT) is a consultancy focused on developing a team’s issue processing skills, primarily in teams who do an organization’s marketing, selling, fulfilling, and accounting (cash management) within its core process. The core process we seek to improve is the 1st Amendment Peaceable Assembly Process, from Assembly Desired, to Post-Assembly Results Reported. Based on the hysteria and violence related to recent protests (Constitutionally protected assemblies), there is a LOT of process pain!
PT is built around coaching the ProcessTriage® Protocol, a fast and effective procedure to treat a business process’s Pain Points. This issue processing is called triaging – to examine a pain point, verify its relevance, sort it to type of solution, size its level of effort, then assign its priority for completion.
I’ve personally led over 1,000 team triaging workshops, with experience in about every type of industry or organization that creates something someone else needs — commercial, non-profit, public and private sector, start-up to Fortune® 500.
OPTIONAL READING: MY WORKING NOTES I’M BRINGING TO THE TRIAGE
It all begins with a process. A process happens when a multitude of tasks are required to create something of value and these tasks require different and specialized skills – different people, tools, or technologies. A process requires a team to run competently and efficiently. The valuable thing we are constitutionally protected to possess is theRight to Peaceably Assemble:
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY PROCESS (Print this post and download the Case Study map below)
A Peaceable Assembly, at some size, frequency and location is complex enough to require a process – ask any event planner. For purposes of this case study, we’ll keep the process simple with two sub-processes: Assembly Planning and the Assembly Event Management from the Assembly Event Sponsor’s view (click on the picture below for PDF download).
The 1st Amendment Peaceable Assembly Process (Sponsor’s View) SELECT to DOWNLOAD PDF. Includes an explanation of the Action-Result Mapping Style and narrative walk-through.
Assembly Planning: The Jurisdiction Having Authority (JHA) has published Assembly Permit Requirements to plan and coordinate the resources for providing security, safety, and sanitation for the assembly. As this Constitutional Right allows for peaceable assembly, the JHA may request law enforcement presence to maintain the peace, including detaining individuals who demonstrate illegal conduct (which does not include speech).
The Sponsor (Action #10) determines the assembly’s scope, such as the date, time, number of participants, location, free speech theme, and media / marketing requirements. If the proposed assembly requires a permit (JHA published), the Sponsor requests a permit (Action #20). If a permit is not needed, the Sponsor publishes the assembly notice (Action #40). If a permit was required, the JHA evaluates the request (Action #30) and grants or denies the permit request according to the published assembly criteria. Participants will R.S.V.P. the Sponsor if desired (Action #50). Assembly Planning concludes when the Assembly Plan is completed by the Sponsor and JHA.
Assembly Event Management: On some date prior to the Assembly Event (sub-process start), the Sponsor stages the assembly event (Action #210), including sanitation facilities, stages, route guides, etc.). Law Enforcement stages safety and security measures if required (Action #220) and the media stages their resources if interested (Action #215).
The assembly is held (Action #230 after it is staged (Results #210, #215, #220 are complete). At the same time, if needed, Law Enforcement provides participant safety and security (enforces the Rule of Law), and, if interested, the Media observe the assembly. If a participant violates the 1st Amendment by acting in an illegally non-peaceful manner, Law Enforcement may detain the individual(s) and initiate an appropriate, due process rule-of-law process (Action #275).
After the assembly event is held the Sponsor completes post-assembly tasks (Action #240), such as site clean-up. Law Enforcement completes their post-event tasks (Action #250) and the Media publishes / broadcasts their coverage.
After Law Enforcement (if present) completes their safety and security tasks (Action #250) the Sponsor completes their assembly closure actions (Action #260) and reports the results (Action #270) as the choose.
The Process Capability Goal.
A Process Capability Goal is a statement of how well a process must perform, in measurable terms, that if sustained over many cycles (assembly events), meets our strategic objectives. In no particular order:
The Peaceable Assembly Sub-Process must be capable of:
Submitting a permit request that meets JHA-satisfying criteria on the first submission, allowing for occasional cosmetic corrections.
Evaluating, and granting or denying a permit request in a courteous, efficient, Sponsor-friendly manner.
Effectively announcing the assembly notice to (1) invite potential participants and (2) make stakeholders and impacted individuals aware of inconveniences related to the assembly.
Publishing an assembly plan that enables venue suppliers (e.g. sanitation), law enforcement, and the media to schedule appropriate resources to ensure all participants experience a peaceable, Constitutionally legal assembly.
The Assembly Event Management Sub-Process must be capable of:
Ensuring the Constitutionally protected peaceable assembly is at all times peaceable, and restraining (minimum) or removing (maximum) non-peaceable participants.
Delivering a satisfying participant experience within the enforcement of constitutionally protected peaceable behavior.
Sufficient public safety, sanitation, and emergency medical support appropriate for the demographics and number of participants.
Ensuring safe and efficient ingress to and egress from the assembly venue.
A Process Point of Pain is any recurring behavior or event that inhibits the process’s Capability Goal. A pain point is always a measurement (factual, measurable, empirical evidence) and not a resource constraint. We need to triage these pain points into sized and prioritized solutions.
The Role of Law Enforcement (Stakeholder)
Our Constitution prohibits the Government from abridging the freedom to assemble peaceably. A defense of and enforcement of this right obligates the Government to take whatever means necessary to secure this right, by use of deadly force if justified (worst case). Of course, any use of force is subject to the courts for review to insure its exercise was merited. This use of force shall not be directed at the peaceable, legally behaving participant.
The defense of this right of speech and peaceable assembly does not assert the Government agrees or disagrees with the content of such speech or assembly, however repugnant or virtuous it may be; it is enforcing the right to peaceable assembly and free speech only. The Government is not choosing sides.
We are a people who are governed by the Rule of Law, and we settle our political differences by debate, by vote, and by free election of representatives who, by majority, decide the Rules of our Law, always in harmony with our Constitution. It’s color blind. It’s identity-politics free. It’s the most masterful social contract in the history of civilization. And it works every time we enforce it.
The Role of the Press (Stakeholder)
The Press is a Participant in the peaceable assembly. Its presence and speech are equality protected. At the same time, the Press is obliged to maintain constitutionally protected peaceable behavior; to observe; to not participate or incite non-peaceable behavior.
All of us are smarter than any one of us. Seal Team 6
We’re better than this. Let’s fix it.
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