Best Practices
Flowerbed Magic
Denver’s parks are filled with some of the most amazing flowers and flowerbeds in the state of Colorado.
Denver’s parks are filled with some of the most amazing flowers and flowerbeds in the state of Colorado. And thanks to Denver Parks & Recreation – Julie Lehman, her staff (The Greenhouse), and the Peak Academy’s Black Belt Training, the City Park Greenhouse’s Spring Plant Distribution Process is more efficient than ever.
According to Julie Lehman, Operation Supervisor, the 2015 Spring Plant Distribution Process was “not well defined and too open ended.” Which resulted in “everyone choosing something different and changing the process to fit their needs daily without concern for the whole.”
So in the Spring of 2016, Julie and her team put their Peak Black Belt Tools to work, identified points to improve within the Spring Plant Distribution Process, and eliminated a sizable amount of the processes’ waste. Watch the video above to learn more.
JerraudPeakAcademy
Jerraud Coleman is a creative, positive and hardworking Performance Improvement Specialist for the City and County of Denver’s Peak Academy. Alongside a great team of professionals, he facilitates process improvement events, trains employees of governments, non-profits and other enterprises (nationally, abroad and at all levels) in the principles and methods of “Lean” and other change management tools like PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act/Adjust). Jerraud believes that “sharing and talking about these tools can help enterprises identify and sustain the elimination of any waste found within any process. Thus resulting in happier customers, a more effective and efficient process, as well as a better product or service overall.”
Jerraud holds a BFA (in Integrated Arts) from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
