Auditing Your Company’s Output – Peaking Productivity
Before you can increase productivity and improve your
company’s efficiency, you must audit your team’s output. Not just the
executive team, but the teams in all your business units.
This is
a lot more difficult than you might consider, you see middle managers
that run these business units consider them their domain. They thus
have procedures in place that work for them that they have designed.
They
do not wish to have anyone come in and tell them how to run things. The
idea of a process productivity audits seems to say; “we do not trust
the way you are running things and so we are going to come in and show
you a better way, because you are not smart enough to figure this out,”
and thus, you can see why this does not sit well with them.
Further,
these middle managers turn towards protectionism to put a fortress
around their fiefdom. Worse, in all this misunderstanding most of the
inefficiencies exist not because of the middle manager, but due to many
years of their bosses telling them what to do, and how to do it,
basically micro-managing every aspect.
It is for this reason that
any efficiency auditing must be met with initial meetings asking for
suggestions from the middle managers and look at their lists of ideas
and potential process innovations first. Long before any
recommendations are rendered from upper management.
Meanwhile,
the efficiency auditing team must also get input from the underlings of
the middle manager, so they do not feel slighted by any new policies
that come down the pipeline. Please consider all this.
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