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can follow it to reach your destination. It’s just a matter of
implementing it. But without a plan, it will never happen.”
Draper said that while many business owners are really
good at what they do, they have no formal business education
or experience.
“My work deals with those aspects. Change, systems, processes
– they know how to do the work, but don’t know how
to run the business to make it profitable,” he said.
Communicate, communicate, communicate
Once your plan is set, it’s time to share it with your staff, starting
with your senior managers.
“Every situation is different, but there are key things
to remember,” said Mark Nesbitt, founder of Mark Nesbitt
Training and Consulting in Ottawa and a 30-year veteran of
the aggregate construction industry. “One of those things is
that if your people haven’t bought the leader, they’re never
going to buy the vision. The number one thing people want
from their leader is clarity.”
Leaders must be the first to change, he says. And then it’s
a matter of explaining your plan to employees and asking for
their feedback and ideas.
“Sometimes you have to ask the people in the trenches,
‘If you were me, what would you do differently?’ It’s pretty
hard to beat face-to-face conversations. People very rarely
remember what we said, but they always remember how we
made them feel,” said Nesbitt.
Communication in this phase is key. Your plan for change
needs to be clearly outlined to not just employees, but also to
customers and suppliers. Obtaining their buy-in is essential.
Take action
By this point you will have a very good idea of where the “pain
points” are in your business and hopefully you’ll be thinking
about some new opportunities that have been identified as well.
“I always recommend sitting down with trusted advisors
to do a strategy session,” said Calgary-based Cheryl Dyck,
a business consultant since 1990 and owner of MSI Action
Group, a business and executive coaching firm founded in
2009. “Look at where you are today and how you can build
towards where you want to go.”
She says that rather than making big sweeping changes,
it’s advisable to set smaller quarterly goals that build upon
one another.
“Prioritize the items that will have the biggest impact with
the least effort first, so you get some small wins and the team
can see change is happening,” she said. “This helps them to
buy into the overall change process.”
Dyck says that team members can be delegated to oversee
some of these individual items.
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Training and Consulting
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