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Setting AIMs. Using Goals to Motivate and Celebrate. Source: http :// www.jugglingworld.biz/images/photo_gallery/images/plates_official_kincardine.jpg. While all changes do not lead to improvement, all improvement requires change . Thomas Nolan, The Improvement Guide. Model For Improvement.
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Setting AIMs Using Goals to Motivate and Celebrate
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While all changes do not lead to improvement, all improvement requires change. • Thomas Nolan, The Improvement Guide
Model For Improvement What are we trying to AIM accomplish? How will we know that a MEASURE change is an improvement? Selecting Change willresult in improvement? Act Plan Act Plan Small Tests of Change Study Do Study Do What are we trying to Accomplish? How will we know that a change is an improvement? What change can we make that will result in improvement?
FromAlice in Wonderland One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire Cat. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” Lewis Carroll
Why Set AIMs? Focus Celebration
Why Set AIMs? Inspire Direction
BIG BOLD
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. John F. Kennedy Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. Doug Larson
WHAT? WHERE? BY WHEN? HOW MUCH?
At North Valley Community Hospital we will have at least 24 months without a VAP by December 31, 2014. We will reduce severe injuries from falls by 50% by August 1, 2013 Anywhere General Hospital will reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions by 500 patients by March 1, 2014
Conclusions • Aims should be a reliable tool in your improvement toolbox • To be truly great, you have to do the unexpected • Concrete goals touch the heart and give purpose to work • Reaching goals is more about persistence than smarts