When Running A Business It Is Tough To Get Every On Board With You
- Date: 2010-09-26 - Word Count: 403
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Among the hardest things to perform when planning an enhancement is getting everybody to buy in. It does not matter if you are hoping to get anything completed at work or at home or for your weekend basketball league, people have a tough time being told that they have to alter the way they have been doing something. This is especially true for anyone who has been doing something a particular way for a long time.
It's hard to get individuals to alter their ways, anyone who has ever attempted to break someone of a bad habit or asked a spouse to change the way their mother taught them to do something. However getting everyone on the same page and getting everyone to buy into the fresh concept is imperative in getting that new idea to become the normal thing to do.
One of the ways to get everybody on board and using the new rules and/or regulations is to mandate them and force all people to go along with. This can work, especially if everybody within the company is afraid of management. An even better method to get the employees and workers on the same page and buying into the new concepts is to have them involved in the development of the concepts.
Having everyone involved in the process makes everyone feel as though they are part of the solution and in turn they feel more linked to the new concepts and are more likely to work within them. They will take ownership in the concepts and will help to convince everyone else that they work with that the alterations are good and will help the organization; and by having advocates for change working directly with the individuals affected by the changes will help with moral and bringing everybody up to speed on the same team. This is why it is so critical to bring in people from various departments and from several areas of the business together, because they all will have a different perspective and different ideas in reaching a solution to a problem.
By getting people from upper management and people who work on the factory floor, as well as employees from in between the two extremes; you will get a cross section of ideas and points of views that would never be conceived if merely one person was working on the problem. The more people, the more ideas.
It's hard to get individuals to alter their ways, anyone who has ever attempted to break someone of a bad habit or asked a spouse to change the way their mother taught them to do something. However getting everyone on the same page and getting everyone to buy into the fresh concept is imperative in getting that new idea to become the normal thing to do.
One of the ways to get everybody on board and using the new rules and/or regulations is to mandate them and force all people to go along with. This can work, especially if everybody within the company is afraid of management. An even better method to get the employees and workers on the same page and buying into the new concepts is to have them involved in the development of the concepts.
Having everyone involved in the process makes everyone feel as though they are part of the solution and in turn they feel more linked to the new concepts and are more likely to work within them. They will take ownership in the concepts and will help to convince everyone else that they work with that the alterations are good and will help the organization; and by having advocates for change working directly with the individuals affected by the changes will help with moral and bringing everybody up to speed on the same team. This is why it is so critical to bring in people from various departments and from several areas of the business together, because they all will have a different perspective and different ideas in reaching a solution to a problem.
By getting people from upper management and people who work on the factory floor, as well as employees from in between the two extremes; you will get a cross section of ideas and points of views that would never be conceived if merely one person was working on the problem. The more people, the more ideas.
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