Elements and Performance Criteria
- Respond to the external environment
- Implement strategies to continually identify and analyse relevant external trends in terms of their impact on the organisation, its clients and the community
- Implement strategies to ensure organisation practices and policies reflect current statutory and legislative requirements
- Gather best practice and comparison data and use to identify potential areas for improvement to respond to changes and trends
- Implement mechanisms to collect feedback from clients, target groups and the community and use it to review effectiveness of the organisation and relevance of strategic and business plans
- Implement continuous improvement
- financial and personnel performance data
- client satisfaction levels
- compliance with current legislative/statutory requirements
- protocols, practices and procedures
- staff competency levels
- staff planning, recruitment and training
- information technology
- Revise organisation practices and procedures as appropriate to reflect the outcomes of performance evaluation
- Undertake consultation, including with staff and relevant industrial parties, to facilitate implementing organisation improvements
- Develop and routinely apply appropriate quality assurance procedures and review for continuing relevance
- Refocus the organisation/service
- Regularly collect information on changing client and community needs and use to review continuing relevance and effectiveness of services provided
- Where indicators suggest a need to change organisation services, practices and directions to reflect changing client requirements, policy or financial environment or community directions, explore a full range of options to ensure revisions are appropriate and meet needs
- Where appropriate, alter strategic plans and organisation objectives and priorities to reflect changing directions in service delivery
- Routinely use consultative processes to ensure staff, clients and stakeholders support changed arrangements
- Provide appropriate staff training to maximise outcomes from continuous improvement processes