Office of the City Manager
Reference: Performance and Leadership Academy Graduation
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Michael P. Martinez, City Manager
Prepared By: Kathryn Mortensen, Budget and Performance Manager
Date Prepared: August 21, 2024
PURPOSE:
To recognize the accomplishments and graduate eligible students of the City of Brighton’s Performance and Leadership Academy.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA:
Organizational Excellence
BACKGROUND:
The City of Brighton launched its inaugural Performance and Leadership Academy in late April 2022. This Academy was a direct response to several of the challenges presented to the organization over the last few years including the COVID-19 pandemic, high turnover in key leadership positions, budget cut-backs, and the “Great Resignation.” The City Manager recognized that the culmination of these stressors over an extended period of time had greatly impacted the organization’s ability to consistently deliver quality services and programs and to retain key talent. As such, he sought proactive ways to rally the organization around shared goals of being customer-centric, purposeful, communicative, transparent, and accountable.
The Performance and Leadership Academy is a five-module program that incorporates employees from all departments and all levels of the organization and teaches them how to build and maintain strong organizations as well as Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous process improvement techniques. To graduate, attendees must participate in all the classes and implement a process improvement in their work area that will result in hard cost (material) savings or soft cost (personnel time) savings. Attendees have one year to implement their innovation projects. The program also welcomed its first outside participants in 2023 to learn and share their ideas alongside City of Brighton employees. With the four graduates in this round, projected savings from academy projects have reached over $1.1M.
ATTACHMENTS
Graduation Presentation