Apr 8, 2015
Health Catalyst Response
11yThank you very much for your advice. I could not have said it better-- Catalyst Academy DOES need to include a course entitled "Catalyst way of management". In fact, I will go a step further and say this concept is one of three top issues that I think about every day. I would broaden the notion a little bit however, to something like, "How do we teach everyone at Catalyst the Catalyst way of Management?" Regardless of whether you are a manager today, my assumption is that everyone at Catalyst wants to improve and grow professionally, and for many this will mean that they will eventually move into greater areas of responsibility. I've said it before on this site, I think that we as a company are going from 300 to 3,000 employees over the next 5-10 years. In order to do that, it becomes a strategic imperative for us to become proficient at always training the next level down to move up, at all levels of the organization.
We aren't very good at this yet as an organization. The good news is, there is really nowhere to go but up! :) Regardless of all the great things we do as a company, one of the fantastic problems we have is that our success brings a steady stream of things for us to improve upon. This is one that we are focusing on, I promise! Thanks again for your thoughtful words!