INSTALLING 4DX WITH YOUR ORGANIZATION

4DX Strategy: Welcome

In today’s society, things are constantly changing. As the changes occur, it is best that we learn to adapt to changes and learn how to use these changes to help everyone to be successful. Using blended learning and digital resources to pique the community’s interest in their health and wellness could be a change that could help a lot of people to live longer, more fulfilling lives. Community Focus aims to change people’s mindset about taking care of their health while including everyone in the process. Below are the 4 Disciplines of Execution and 5 stages of change that are crucial to making sustainable changes within an organization.

The 5 Stages of Change

Getting Clear

The most important thing that I can do to make sure everyone in my organization is clear is to communicate effectively and efficiently about the plans to incorporate healthy blended learning into my organization. During this time period, I want to meet with teachers and administrators to create the WIG of the wellness initiative and identify lead measures. A focus group of administrators will be testing the wellness initiative so they will be able to model its use during an initial demonstration and give feedback on the initiative and any technology issues that occurred. It would also be helpful if everyone is familiar with the 4DX.Also, a scoreboard for healthy success will be created.

Launch

Teachers and administrators outside of the focus group will gain access to the initiative and meet a week later to give feedback, ask questions, and discuss. Their feedback is important because their input will make them more accountable and give them ownership of this effort. I will also identify a health hero at each campus. Health heros are representatives that are specialists for the initiative. Once feedback has been given and changes have been made, teachers will be able to introduce the wellness initiative to their classrooms and model its use to students and parents.

Adoption

During this stage, we will plan and hold biweekly health hero meetings where issues and concerns are discussed. During the meetings, each health hero will report on the healthy scoreboard for their campus and discuss what’s working and not working on their campus. If there is something that is not working overall, we will take a look at how to fix the issue, whether it is technical or content. There will also be an anonymous healthy helper box which any teacher, student, or parent can give initiative feedback.

Optimization

During this stage, everyone will understand the “why” (the importance of overall wellness) for the initiative and be working diligently towards the WIG. Due to various training and feedback during the adoption stage, there are less people having issues with adapting to the use of the initiative. The health hero group can focus on growing the initiative by implementing more healthy resources and videos and holding community health awareness meetings quarterly. We will also celebrate successful scoreboards and crown health hero of the month at each campus. This would be any person who has gone above and beyond to model healthy behaviors.

Habits

As we begin to reach our healthy WIG, we will meet to create and discuss new healthy WIGS. We will use 4DX as we continue to create new goals, while growing the initiative.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

The 4 Disciplines of Execution were created by Covey, McChesney, and Chesney in 2012 and they were created to help organizations that are experiencing change succeed in those changes. When changes take place in organizations, they may not always be easy to make. Having an organized and centralized method of going through the change helps everyone to make the change together as a team. The disciplines focus on the wildly important goal, acting on lead measures, keeping an accurate scoreboard, and accountability.

Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important Goal

Focusing on the wildly important goal makes achieving them more attainable. Overall, the wildly important goal would be to have 100% of teachers incorporating the use of Community Focus health initiative into their classrooms through brain breaks and mindfulness moments. Through this, they can model the initiatives use for students and make them comfortable using the initiative for healthy matters. While 100% of teachers utilizing the initiative is the overall goal, in the beginning stages, 60% is acceptable as we continue to promote the benefits of its use.

Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures

The lead measure for this initiative would be for all teachers(no matter the subject) to pick 1 to 2 moments per week where they give students a brian break where they are allowed to get up and have guided movement through the initiative or a mindful moment in which students are taken through breathing exercises or moments of meditation. As teachers see the benefits of letting students have a break in the class, it is my hope that teachers will use it more often. The lag measure would be students using the site outside of class for other wellness issues because of what they learn from the healthy movement and brain breaks in class.

Discipline 3: Keep A Scoreboard

Keeping a scoreboard of success for the initial wildly important goal would be teachers tracking how many times they incorporated the use of the initiative during class. To view an example of a healthy check in scoreboard, click on this link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bKiD9viB6libjzo6Ujvqd9qXNbtYIrNab9JrGPfbZk/edit?usp=sharing

The teachers will mark how many times they used the initiative from week to week. They will also write a short description on if they find the breaks effective and see a difference in productivity after the use of the initiative.

For future wildly important goals, the score board would change to each individual student and how many times they log in the initiative for personal health education, resources, support groups in healthy communities, etc. For different goals, scoreboards will be modified.

Discipline 4: Create A Cadence of Accountability

In creating accountability, the designated health hero at each campus will have a short monthly meeting with the teachers to go over the campus scoreboard. During that time, teachers utilizing the initiative can talk about the benefits of incorporating the breaks and healthy resources during the class period. Any teacher who needs to know a little more about effectively utilizing the initiative in their class can ask questions during discussion and top performing teachers can show a video of the initiatives use during a class period.

Bi-monthly, the campus health heros will have a short zoom meeting to discuss the initiatives use on their campus and to talk about what has worked and what hasn’t. Both the campus and district meetings will continue to assist the teachers with changing wildly important goals. There will also be a newsletter created and sent out to assist teachers in its implementation.

4DX Strategy: Text

4DX Vs. The Influencer Strategy

The 4DX Strategy seems to be more of a team effort to me. From the beginning, the team creates the WIG and there is more feedback from others in the organization, which really helps with its success. The input from different members of the organizations helps everyone to feel like they took part in the creation, giving all members a little ownership in the change taking place. The Influencer model focuses on vital behaviors and 4DX focuses on a WIG and the leading measures. Both of these models can help an organization to successfully navigate change and these two models work well together. I love that 4DX has the scoreboard and accountability piece. Those are two key things that I can use to make my healthy blended learning initiative a success. Both the Influencer strategy and 4DX are amazing strategies and needed in the world of organizational change.