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: Kayla Barber-Perrotta, Budget and Performance Manager
Date Prepared: February 23, 2023
PURPOSE:
To recognize the accomplishments and graduate eligible students of the City of Brighton’s Performance and Leadership Academy.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA:
Innovative, Data-Driven, Results-Focused Government
BACKGROUND:
The City of Brighton launched it’s 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 organizations 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 week program that incorporates employees from all departements 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 five 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, but are checked in with on a quarterly basis to see whether they have met all the necessary graduation requirements. To date the innovation projects stemming from the Performance and Leadership Academy have yielded $135k in projected annual savings.
ATTACHMENTS
Graduation Presentation