Continuous improvement is one of United Way of Salt Lake\u2019s core values. The adoption and integration of what we learned during the Impact and Improvement Network has laid the foundation for strengthening our organization and making continuous improvement part of the fabric of our culture. In fact, we\u2019re rolling out an organization-wide plan to build staff confidence in using in all of our work \u2014 from resource development to human resources and from the CEO to new hires \u2014 to improve our ability to impact our community.We hope that providing a flexible but robust framework for staff to accelerate their successes will ultimately lead to increased employee retention, stronger supervisory relationships, , greater accountability and, ultimately of course, better results for our community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest post by Amy Ahrens Terpstra,\u00a0Senior Director of Network Partnerships at United Way of Salt Lake. Across districts in the Promise Partnership of Salt Lake, chronic absence rates range from 7 to 18 percent, with persistently higher rates for low-income and Latino students. United Way of Salt Lake (UWSL) recognized that chronic absence is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":10148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capabilitiy-building","tag-blog","category-218","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n