Peak Performance: How Denver’s Peak Academy is Saving Money, Boosting Morale and Just Maybe Changing the World. (And How You Can, Too!)

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When Denver Mayor Michael Hancock took office in 2011, he inherited an $80 million budget shortfall and a central authority workforce that had been through a couple of rounds of cuts and furloughs. Morale used to be low. He needed a way to drive greater efficiencies, cost savings and improved performance-and he had to do it in-house, on a shoe-string budget. Enter Peak Academy, the coaching and innovation program Mayor Hancock created to teach frontline city employees how to tackle small problems and deliver big results. In four years, Peak Academy trained 5,000 government staff in the fundamentals of lean manufacturing and other process management techniques. More than 2,000 employee-driven innovations later, the program had saved Denver an estimated $15 million. Word got out and dozens of other governments sent their staffs to Denver or hired Peak Academy to bring the training to them. In this fun, easy-to-read guide, Peak Academy director Brian Elms and Governing staff creator J.B. Wogan deliver the basics for the remainder of us, with a surprisingly frank discussion about how hard it used to be to get the program off the ground. Experience a thoughtful exploration of both the challenges faced and the reasons why Peak in the long run succeeded. Get a clear overview of Peak Academy training methods and tools (including yes, all those yellow stickies). See concrete examples of employee-driven innovations-many of which sound, in hind-sight, like $40,000 no-brainers, until you realize there are hundreds of similar and much-needed fixes in each workplace. Peak Performance is a book a good way to help public sector leaders replicate the Peak model. It is a book for government managers to read and talk about with their teams. But most importantly, It is a book for anyone working in government at any level-about the power of good ideas to beef up the way government works.

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