Productivity Challenge – How to engage the senior leadership in a difficult change journey?
- Education and knowledge for senior leaders.
- Ensuring the change journey is part of daily, weekly meetings and always on the agenda.
- Focus on hearts and minds of people.
- Cross functional understanding from all within the organisation. Know where people fit in to the change journey and their roles within it.
- People influence people.
- Leaders need resilience training and skilling to deal with the change.
- Tier approach used and clear vision for the organisation.
- Leadership understand that the end result is business excellence and It’s not all about manufacturing.
- Part of senior team reviews and topic is on their agenda.
- Introduce recognition for changes made.
- Training, development, awareness and knowledge essential for all staff.
- Why change is important and what will the end results be.
- What is in it for the person – reinforcement.
- How is the idea implemented and measure how this is done always a challenge.
- How do we measure the change and show the statistics relating to it.
- Visibility of the process is key.
- Show vulnerability.
- Celebrate success of an idea.
- Leadership is not an office based role.
- Continuous Imporvement.