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Employee.Engagement@riosalado.edu
At Rio Salado College, we created a 4DX @ Rio: The Process page to breakdown the steps and expectations of each team.
In addition, there is a Site Map to help navigate the content on this website.
In addition, Dr. Aaron Coe and Christin Franco offer 4DX training sessions on the 4DX @ Rio: Training Sessions & Resources.
Each Friday, Janelle Elias, Aaron Coe, and Christin Franco also offer a Friday open forum from 11:30 - 12:30 pm to answer any questions. Zoom login information is available on the Rio College Calendar.
This Site Map breaks down all the pages on the website with sample screenshots and brief descriptions.
In addition, the 4DX @ RIO: The Process page shows the Rio deadlines and expectations for each team.
Leaders at Rio Salado College have made a commitment to implement the 4DX process for the next 3 years.
The 4DX process is a better way to achieve your goals. With teams across the college committing to specific lead measures to move their RIOs/WIGs and scoreboards that show the progress, we will be able to literally see the impact that you as employees make on the college through this process in many different areas.
In addition, other Maricopa County Community Colleges have also made the commitment to 4DX, such as Gateway Community College, Estrella Mountain Community College, and Mesa Community College.
No, 4DX and PDCA go hand-in-hand. Both process-improvement methods reference Total Quality Management (TQM) leader W. Edwards Demings, who states "It would be better if everyone worked together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win."
With 4 Disciplines of Execution, you are using the meetings of accountability to look at the scoreboard and reassess what the best commitment would be for the next week to move the scoreboard, similarly to the PDCA cycle.
Yes, in 4DX you want these factors to be measurable so that you will be able to see the start line, the finish line, and the progress you are making to reach your goals.
If you need help coming up with measurements, consider some of the Key Performance Indicators at the bottom of the Defining Your RIO/WIG page.
If you are already holding weekly staff meetings, consider reserving 10-20 minutes in the beginning of each meeting to discuss your RIO/WIG / 4DX accountability. During that reserved time, talk about your RIO/WIG and leave other conversations for another time.
By placing the commitments / accountability to 4DX in the beginning of the meeting, you ensure that you will have enough time to review the scoreboard with the team. In addition, this structure of reporting on your commitments could carry over into the remaining part of your staff meeting.
4DX encourages the use of RIO/WIG sessions and RIO/WIG huddles.
For larger groups, the huddles will be best because you focus on the key areas and how the team as a whole moved the scoreboard in those key areas.
Then, in smaller groups, you want to do a RIO/WIG session to show how each person moved the scoreboard forward through their efforts. It is important to see that the work an employee is doing mattered and made a different to the scoreboard.
At the bottom of the Guiding Questions page, you will see a section on evaluating your RIO/WIG sessions and huddles.