At a time when productivity is drifting, costs are being squeezed and revenues are more challenged, it can be worth reflecting on how effectively aligned productivity is with people engagement.
Here’s a quick self assessment to understand how you are doing:
- All employees understand our business plan and our big commercial goals
- Every team has specific plans to ensure we deliver more and perform better in the next 12 months
- Our leadership team meetings are regular, super effective and driving business success
- We have a clear resourcing and skills plan, down to team level for the next 1-2 years
- Everyone understands exactly how their role fits in with delivering our business plan
- Every member of our senior leadership team is fully aligned to each other and our business goals
- All our leaders always role model the expected behaviours in the business
- All our managers hold their teams to account for results and manage under-performance effectively
- All our senior leaders communicate well and instil trust in our teams
- There are effective formal and informal routes for employees to give and receive feedback
- Our values are fully experienced by all and are driving our culture and our behaviour
- We survey and gain employee feedback regularly and results tell us everyone enjoys working here
- All our employees are proud to work here, job satisfaction and retention are high
- We have a diverse and inclusive leadership team, and a workforce that we know reflects our customers and community.
If you honestly think you are performing well against the above, you’re onto something. If you would like help to develop your productivity by engaging with your people, please do get in touch.
We work with management teams to provide them with the insights and capabilities to deliver change in a multidisciplinary way supporting leadership, people, finance, legal and IT considerations. We can roll our sleeves up although most of the work is based on embedding a framework for improvement and ‘skills transferal’, giving your team the ability to make cost effective and long lasting improvements. Our experience is based on supporting mergers, restructuring, cost reduction and re-energisation programmes across the middle market as well as international businesses.
If you would like to know more, please contact fiona@linkstoneadvisory.com
