The SLT at the CTCC have based their new strategic planning on the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed down from generation to generation, which says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In the Public Service, like the CTCC however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Change riders. Have a pool of suitably unqualified but preferred riders.
2. Buy a bigger, stronger whip. Have a store of unsuitable, smaller whips just in case.
3. Do nothing: “This is the way we have always ridden dead horses” but deny their is anything wrong.
3. Do nothing: “This is the way we have always ridden dead horses” but deny their is anything wrong.
4. Visit other Forces to see how they ride dead horses.
5. Perform a productivity study to see if lighter riders improve the dead horse’s performance. Amend rider selection policies to include social groups who are under represented.
6. Hire a contractor to ride the dead horse and add an unrealistic performance criteria matrix without clear and understood remit.
7. Harness several dead horses together in an attempt to increase the speed.
8. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance. Create multi-agency support for dead horse victim groups.
9. Appoint a committee to study the horse and assess how dead it actually is. Set up a working party and review committee to assist with evaluation and to make recommendations for effective performance review of the committee and working party.10. Re-classify the dead horse as “living-impaired”.
11. Develop a Strategic Plan for the management of dead horses and create a new level of leadership to ensure this is led and managed effectively.
12. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses.
13. Modify existing standards to include dead horses.
14. Declare that, as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than many other horses. Efficiency savings can be identified (in real terms) and budgetary levels adjusted.
15. There will be some excellent career development enhancing evidence in there somewhere. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
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16.Refuse to accept the horse is dead. Rename it,Move it to a different location. Hope no one notices.
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I’d like to try for one more based on personal observation at my place.
16.Refuse to accept the horse is dead. Rename it,Move it to a different location.Hope no one notices.
Very familiar. Strange, too, how that series of strategic guidelines applies in other – non-police – agencies; even those, which, like my own, pride themselves on being “innovative” & “thinking outside the box”. That old dead horse never gets buried.
17. Dye the ‘living Impaired’ horse grey, call it a Donkey, and repeat all previous options….
You can tell experts are involved with the dead horse. The non experts, us mere humans, would have buried the dead horse and moved onto something productive.
18 – Clone it! Years of extra use.