Steering Committee Roles and Responsibilities
The Continuous Improvement Steering Committee represents all employee groups of McHenry County College and takes on the responsibility of supporting, guiding, organizing, and leading the Continuous Improvement process efforts of the College.Continuous Improvement Steering Committee's Roles:
- Support the implementation of Continuous Improvement
- Listen to input from across the College
- Select Action Team projects based on alignment with the College’s Strategic Plan and AQIP principles and criteria
- Prioritize the Continuous Improvement processes that need attention
- Choose Continuous Improvement processes that need Action Teams to improve their outcomes
- Choose Action Teams and Action Team members that will focus on improving the processes that are of high priority
- Listen to and provide effective feedback to Action Teams and their ideas of improvement and their ideas for implementation
- Make decisions concerning the Action Teams and their ideas for improvement and support implementation in any way possible
- Guide the process of college-wide involvement in Continuous Improvement in a timely manner
- Coordinate Action Team process and prevent duplicate efforts
- Coordinate the efforts of Action Teams and supportive committees
- Coordinate the implementation of Action Team ideas so there is college-wide communication of ideas and implementation efforts to all related departments
- Lead and develop reward and recognition activities that will appropriately show our appreciation for the efforts and the results of the Action Teams
- Organize and coordinate the communications of Action Team efforts and the tangible results to the College and appropriate stakeholders
- Provide the leadership and coordination of training to keep Continuous Improvement effective and on-going
- Recommend action steps for Continuous Improvement to the President, based on the results of Action Team projects
- Serve as a Sponsor for Action Teams
Facilitators:
- Guide the Steering Committee
Professional Development:
- Provides training for Steering Committee and Action Teams
Resource Personnel:
- Serve as a resource for the Steering Committee and Action Teams