OE | Management Values
Operational Excellence | Management Values
In our most recent blog we look at the second (of 15) main KPA that forms part of an Operational Excellence programme - Management Values and Leadership.
Management Values and Leadership
Having clear management values helps your company ensure that all your employees are working towards the same goals. Your core values support the company's vision, which will shape its culture and impact your business strategy. They help you create a purpose, improve team cohesion, and create a sense of commitment in the workplace.
Assessing Management Values
When assessing your management values and leadership, you need to ask yourselves if the senior management team are leading by example? Do they follow the company values? Do they follow their own training and self-development plans? The leadership team need to create and support an environment which promotes creativity and proactivity regarding continuous improvement.
Teams and individuals need to be allowed to operate with self-sufficiency, within safety and commercial constraints, and feel they can openly approach their leaders.
Re-shaping Culture
Few manufacturing organisations undertake a transformation with the goal of shaping or re-shaping their own culture. Often, when looking to commence an Operational Excellence programme, management realise that these new ways of working can be so different from their current ways, that making those changes seems impossible - without a cultural change.
If you are looking to transform your manufacturing performance, then this will likely mean changing the organisation’s culture and this means that the leaders must change how they lead first.
The first step to achieving this is by completing an Operational Excellence programme.
eBook - First Steps to Operational Excellence
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