You're facing resistance from assembly line workers. How can you break through to drive process change?
Encountering resistance from assembly line workers is a common hurdle in implementing change. Here's how to gain their support:
- Engage workers in dialogue to understand their concerns and involve them in solution-building.
- Clearly communicate the benefits of change for both the company and their personal work experience.
- Provide comprehensive training to ease the transition and empower workers with new skills.
How have you approached resistance in your workplace? Share your strategies.
You're facing resistance from assembly line workers. How can you break through to drive process change?
Encountering resistance from assembly line workers is a common hurdle in implementing change. Here's how to gain their support:
- Engage workers in dialogue to understand their concerns and involve them in solution-building.
- Clearly communicate the benefits of change for both the company and their personal work experience.
- Provide comprehensive training to ease the transition and empower workers with new skills.
How have you approached resistance in your workplace? Share your strategies.
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Talk is cheap. Roll up your sleeves and work with them. What I did for over twenty years. They don't respect talkers...they do respect doers.
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Work along side the workers, learn how they do the job. What do they need to do the job carefully and efficently. Work several different areas of the line, What works for one area may not for another. Get to know them by name, talk with them on a personal level. Really understand your people and what is needed to benefit all. Brainstorm ideas, listen to the workers thoughts and ideas.
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J'ai eu l'occasion de piloter de nombreuses fois dans l'industrie chimique puis automobile. Lors de ces expériences j'ai pu développer 4 bonnes pratiques : 1 donner du sens, faire monter en compétence mes interlocuteurs en intelligence entrepreneuriale. Quel impact la conjoncture sur la marge opérationnelle, quelle est la part de contribution de la main d'œuvre directe de production. La prise de conscience fédère déjà à minima 50% des interlocuteurs 2 exposer le projet, répondre aux peurs et objections. Prendre en compte leurs idées 3 intégrer les opérateurs au projet. La coconstruction permet de les Federer. Établir des données de départ factuelles et des objectifs concrets 4 privilégier les progrès par petit pas (type kaizen)
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In addition to your recommendations, gather a volunteer team, including individuals who like challenging situations, to deal with the new process. Subsequently, analysis of their performance and the outcome. Thus, at our meeting with the whole team, sharing the report and achievements of the volunteer group. After that, applying the brainstorming process and requesting every member to express their idea for improving the new changes and reaching an agreement. On the other hand, the resistance may stem from problems or obstacles that new changes have caused; and we didn’t estimate them. In this case, after gathering the members’ opinions and collecting the evidence, try to modulate the changes and develop the facilities for our team.
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1. Never go into any working environment forcing your ways on to the line workers. 2. Get to know them and what works for them. 3. See how they were producing their line of work before implementing any changes. 4. Change is good, but it should benefit your line workers and not break them down or belittle them in any way. 5. You're a professional at what you do, and so are the workers who work under you.
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When I have several requests for statistical analyses as a biostatistician and therefore for software programming at the same time, I organize myself so that I produce one or two programs per day while advancing in the work at the same time. I also make small programs of standardized statistical tests so that they serve as models to adapt to each study and thus advance quickly.
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Mudanças geram desconforto, isso é um fato! - Convide membros da operação a participarem das reuniões de alinhamento do novo processo. - Tenha uma comunicação clara e eficaz. Exponha os motivos da mudança do processo, assim como as necessidades, benefícios e desafios. - Esteja aberto à interação, e saiba que a operação pode contribuir significativamente. - Faça designs ilustrativos e check list, para que as dúvidas sejam minimizadas.
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Seien Sie geduldig: Veränderungen brauchen Zeit. Geben Sie den Mitarbeitern Raum, sich an die neuen Prozesse zu gewöhnen. Langfristige Einbindung sicherstellen Feedback-Schleifen einrichten: Schaffen Sie regelmäßige Möglichkeiten für Feedback, um Probleme frühzeitig zu erkennen und anzupassen. Kultur der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung fördern: Zeigen Sie, dass Veränderungen Teil des Arbeitsalltags sind und dass die Mitarbeiter dabei eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
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