Testing! Testing!
By meeting teams doing similar projects, the Enjoying Work community was able to accelerate their rapid cycle testing. In December’s learning session they asked each other:
How do you engage your wider service in improving staff well-being?
How do you move from testing ‘quick wins’ to testable high impact change ideas?
How do you keep track of your tests, predictions and outcomes?
The image above shows ideas from Enjoying Work teams and the QI Department on how to involve those they work with in positive change. You can see which ideas Cohort 5 have committed to testing this month.
Teams often choose to begin Enjoying Work projects with ‘quick wins’ to get their team on board, such as running social events and team appreciation. Cohort 5 decided it was time to move on to those ideas that require testing and could have the biggest impact. They collated all past and future change ideas and coloured them yellow for ‘quick wins’ and blue for ‘testable high impact’.
This formed the basis of the Cohort 5 Kanban board (displayed below), a QI tool used to visually display what stage each piece of work is at.
Using Life QI, teams were able to record their tests of change. This included a prediction of what would happen, a plan as to who would do what, and a comparison against what actually happened. Life QI replaces the need for minutes of project meetings.
Click here to see how our teams are getting on according to their wellbeing measures this month.
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