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Scanning to Onbase Continuing Best practice in Place: With Onbase, we have been able to obtain all the required documents needed to complete the negative reviews on many of the cases. It seems staff are doing a better job having the case information imported into the case record. When there were actual case files, there seemed […]
Agency caused QC errors, “invalid negative action,” are due to the notice of adverse action being sent to an incorrect address. This causes clients to not be properly notified about case closures and denials. Often clients are reporting new addresses either on an FSP-38, Certification Renewal, initial application, or Mid-Certification Renewal, but this change of […]
What’s the Difference Between 1st and 2nd Deadlines? Negative actions taken on all cases except child care must be completed prior to the 1st deadline to allow for a 10 day notice to be sent to the client. If the client provides a written statement waiving their 10 day notice, action can be taken after […]
What is a Gemba Walk? In Lean Six Sigma, the term Gemba is used to describe visualizing and observing how work is done at the level of the worker. It is a Japanese word which means “the real place.” In an application sense, it means going into an office and watching a worker perform their […]
“Customer Service” refers to how we relate to each other daily. Our customers are external (e.g., clients) and internal (e.g.,employees). It is important that we respond to our customers with professionalism, compassion and integrity. It is also important that employees, clients and work places are free from harm or danger. Safety is everyone’s business and […]
Having a SMART objective to discuss in a coaching conversation provides a useful focal point. It clarifies the overall purpose of a work-based coaching conversation, which is to improve or maintain performance. An objective is a written statement of intent. It clearly describes what measurable actions or tasks an individual, team or organization wants to […]
Questions managers should ask themselves while walking the Gemba Why is this process other than how you visualized it? What disrupts the work? Where could mistakes be made? What keeps those mistakes from being made? Is there a mechanism to cue the employee to the correct way or alert them that a mistake has been […]
Collaborative Coaching can be used to focus attention on a key issue, develop employee skills, promote personal responsibility for problems and issue resolution, encourage collaboration for the discovery of obstacles and stumbling blocks, create a positive feedback loop between supervisors and the team, and disseminate information at the unit, office, division, and agency levels. The […]