How does the Best Practices Group work with a JDC?
Our mission is to support Best Practice efforts around the University. We “facilitate” making Best Practices happen. Facilitate is a Latin based word that means “to make easy”. Facilitators pay attention to both the meeting content (what gets done) and the meeting process (how it gets done). We can provide support through a variety of ways: • Providing information on Best Practices. • Helping to set the stage for a Best Practice project for a successful launch. • Helping with forming a Joint Departmental Committee (JDC). • Supporting teams with planning meeting agendas, facilitating meetings and addressing obstacles that are impeding team progress. • Training co-chairs on use of interest-based problem solving tools, data collection and analysis tools and techniques for managing group dynamics • Helping teams to prepare. presentations and updates to sponsors. Also working with co-chairs to help bridge communications between key groups supporting or being impacted by improvement projects
