Reflecting on Your Implementation Journey

Author(s): Rebekah Hornak

Publication Date: January 2022

Core Competencies: Ongoing Improvement

Resource Type: Read

According to James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

So, let’s unpack that quote through the lens of implementation. We often set significant goals to address capacity for implementing an evidence-based practice. Whether we do this through an implementation plan or action planning from your last capacity assessment, clear goals are a must. Often, as we work through this process and start working on our objectives and actions steps, we hit a wall. And that wall would be infrastructure or your organization’s systems.