Step 7 of 10 · Performance Lever 5

Tool Support

Tool Support looks at whether the systems, resources, job aids, and technology people rely on actually help the work get done.

Performance often stalls when the tools are unreliable, confusing, fragmented, or harder to use than the workaround. This section helps you examine whether the issue you selected is partly a tool support problem.

Watch the Tool Support Lesson

This lesson explains how tool gaps show up as duplicate entry, manual tracking, missed handoffs, inconsistent documentation, rework, delay, or avoidable frustration.

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This section should explain that Tool Support includes technology, systems, templates, job aids, forms, dashboards, trackers, documentation, and the practical resources people use at the point of work.

Before You Complete This Section

Answer these questions against the same performance challenge you selected at the start.

  • Look at the actual tools people use, not the tools leaders assume they use.
  • Notice where people create spreadsheets, side notes, manual trackers, or unofficial workarounds.
  • Pay attention to duplication, missing information, unclear handoffs, or systems that do not talk to each other.
  • Consider whether the tool makes the desired behavior easier or makes the workaround more attractive.

A tool problem is not always a technology problem. Sometimes the missing support is a checklist, template, decision guide, job aid, or clear source of truth.

Complete the Tool Support Section

Choose the answer that best reflects the performance challenge you are analyzing.

Question 1

The tools, systems, or job aids people use support accurate and efficient execution of this work.

Question 2

The tools make the desired process easier instead of adding duplication, confusion, or extra manual work.

Question 3

People can easily find and use the information, resources, or system support they need at the point of work.

Keep this focused on systems, tools, job aids, templates, documentation, duplication, handoffs, or workarounds.

Your answers save to your current Report ID. The next section is Mindset Alignment.