Quality isn't a feeling, it's a trail you can follow.
Saying "we maintain high quality" is easy. Showing exactly where it comes from is something else entirely.
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Results and quality management
The difference between being able to report a result and being able to explain what actually created it.
Read more →Method fidelity in practice
What method fidelity looks like day to day, and why the same method can give different results between staff members.
Read more →Fragmented documentation
When quality lives scattered across folders, spreadsheets and individual employees’ heads instead of in one place.
Read more →The cost of missed results
What a missed target or work done without evidence actually costs, even when it never shows up on a single budget line.
Read more →Routines that are followed
The difference between a policy in a binder and routines that are actually followed, measured, and make quality less person-dependent.
Read more →Person-dependent competence
What happens to quality when the method only lives in the heads of the most experienced staff.
Read more →Learning and knowledge sharing
How organizations systematically learn from what already works, instead of letting the knowledge stay with individuals.
Read more →Why The Quality Gap
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A quality policy in a binder proves nothing until someone follows up on it.
Most organizations have the document. Few have the routine that makes it lived day to day, not only at audit time.
Analyze what works, before the knowledge disappears.
A strong result is a chance to formulate hypotheses about what contributed, test them again, and build organizational learning.
How to know if your staff actually work by the method, rather than by feel
Method fidelity sounds simple on paper. In everyday practice, execution differs between every employee.
Every target you miss has a price. Most never work out what it costs.
Missed results rarely show up on a single line in the budget. Part of the cost can be measured, part can only be judged.
Results and quality management
See the whole theme →Outcomes come last. Three early signals let leadership act sooner.
An outcome only shows once the placement has already ended. Leading indicators show the direction while there's still time to act.
Quality isn't a feeling, it's a trail you can follow.
Saying "we maintain high quality" is easy. Showing exactly where it comes from is something else entirely.
You report results every quarter. No one can explain why they turned out that way.
Many organizations deliver numbers upward without being able to account for what actually caused them. That turns every improvement into a guess.
Method fidelity in practice
See the whole theme →How to know if your staff actually work by the method, rather than by feel
Method fidelity sounds simple on paper. In everyday practice, execution differs between every employee.
Same method, different results. Start by comparing the conditions.
When results differ between employees using the same method, the question is rarely just who's better. Compare caseload, conditions, method fidelity, and support first.
Calculate what a single deviating way of working costs you in a year
A model for calculating verifiable internal costs of a deviating way of working. Fill in your own numbers, the calculation is a basis for decisions, not proof.
Fragmented documentation
See the whole theme →Three signs your ways of working are too scattered to trust
Duplicated work is the smallest problem. The big one is that no one knows what's true anymore.
Your quality lives in several different spreadsheets. No one knows which one is true.
Fragmented documentation isn't just messy, it turns every follow-up into detective work.
The cost of missed results
See the whole theme →Every target you miss has a price. Most never work out what it costs.
Missed results rarely show up on a single line in the budget. Part of the cost can be measured, part can only be judged.
You know the work is working. But can you show the evidence?
Doing a good job isn't enough if you can't show what likely contributed to the result.
Routines that are followed
See the whole theme →A quality policy in a binder proves nothing until someone follows up on it.
Most organizations have the document. Few have the routine that makes it lived day to day, not only at audit time.
Shared routines make quality less person-dependent.
When the way of working differs from employee to employee, it becomes harder to know whether success can be repeated.
Person-dependent competence
See the whole theme →Your best employee knows the method by heart. Your newest barely knows where to find it.
Without structured onboarding, quality ends up depending on who happens to sit next to the new hire.
Learning and knowledge sharing
See the whole theme →Analyze what works, before the knowledge disappears.
A strong result is a chance to formulate hypotheses about what contributed, test them again, and build organizational learning.
The expertise lives in individual employees' heads, not in the organization.
As long as the knowledge of what works only exists with a few people, every staff turnover is a risk to quality.