When Running A Business It Is Tough To Get Every On Board With You
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Among the most difficult activities to perform when planning an adjustment is getting everyone on board
. It does not make a difference if you are hoping to get anything done at your job or at home or for your weekend basketball team, people have a tough time being instructed that they need to alter the way they have been doing something. This is particularly accurate for anyone who has been doing something a particular way for a long time.
It's difficult to get individuals to change their ways, anyone who has ever tried to break someone of a bad habit or asked a spouse to change the way their mother taught them to do something. But getting everyone on the same page and getting everyone to buy into the new idea is imperative in getting that new idea to become the normal thing to do.
One of the ways to get everybody on board and following the new rules and/or regulations is to mandate them and force all people to cooperate. This will work, especially if everybody within the organization 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 ideas.
Having everyone involved in the process makes everyone feel as though they are part of the solution and in turn they feel more connected to the new ideas 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 changes are good and will help the business; and by having advocates for change working directly with the people affected by the changes will help with moral and bringing everybody up to speed on the same team. This is why it is so important to bring in people from different departments and from different areas of the company together, because they all will have a different point of view 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'll 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.