Simplify and Fulfill your Processes
How can you build exceptional people processes that are centered in vision and executed with a systems approach?
Building company longevity is no small feat, and there are a couple of key components that make this possible. Generally, most companies are ambitious or have a vision, what very few companies do is keep their pulse alive on the evolving vision. The second component is manifestation of vision, reaching their products and services to the market – this is supported by brilliance in execution.
Most companies struggle to keep their processes simple to execute, focused on fulfilling the overall vision and joyful for people who execute the process. It takes top-notch talent at all levels to produce innovative and reliable products with scale or consistently for decades.
Challenging Scenarios
Challenges organizations face while creating processes that generate long term impact and sustainable progress.
- Processes are not made to serve value adding outcomes or efforts; they are result-oriented and leave very little scope for agility & creativity
- Processes are at times very structured, and do not provide flexibility for the user to improve the quality of service or efficiency in the system
- Processes are created or executed in silos and miss integrating inter-department dependencies
- To reduce work in one function, overall larger efficiency or benefits are overlooked
- The holding capacity of users to consistently follow the processes is not that sufficient
- New processes fail because the habit building capacity in individuals is yet to be built, and the metrics often check for results rather that success of the effort taken in the process steps
- Processes created do not have a built-in mechanism of communication. So, work may get done but bottlenecks are created due to lack of timely information or lack of clarity in the overall deliverable
- Seemingly minor aspects that can account for a greater integration with the big picture, are kept at bay, for later process improvements as they are perceived as non-critical to business
- Parts of organizations at times just don’t create processes, because of the lack of expertise to create semi structured-flexible processes, or lack of training or the capacity of the user to apply themselves
Our Solutions for your Organization
We co-design, consult, coach or facilitate interventions and group workshops for your leaders, people managers & individuals to build a process mindset and systems approach that focuses on
- Integration of future vision in the present ways of working
- Inculcating a culture of consciously working towards the big picture, dropping interpersonal bias and working as win-win-win teams
- Breaking though the silos in the organization and integrating effective and efficient people centric workflows to achieve seamless customer experiences
- Building process that support self-managed teams to enhance empowerment and ownership
- Creating transparency in the system and building trust with the processes
- Create a space for conscious innovation, exploration and sustenance
- Making agility a habit – creating systems that can tap unseen needs of the market or customers and continuously evolve the products to serve the greater good
- Lack of clarity or alignment with vision and strategy
- Organizational restructuring and common culture messages to be shared across teams and geographies
- People managers to step up their capacity to be a crucial link to business success & people development.
- Better synergy, harmony and collaboration needed within teams as they focus on aspired work outcomes.
- Enhancing work life balance or wellbeing (mental, emotional, physical) or (heart, mind, body)
- Misaligned or fragmented communication to the people as multiple initiatives/ projects are implemented across various functions. Lack of an integrated positioning strategy aligned with actions on the floor.
- The capacity to engage learners is becoming extremely challenging given the ethos of social media attention spans.
- Enabling respectful, efficient communication and creating workflows that enable integration of process with system feedback.
- Creating space for compassionate listening systems that inspire self-observation, auto correction of mistakes which in turn propels them to aligned actions & sustainable processes
- Listening into thoughts, emotions, body; acknowledging the evolving changes and setting people processes up for transformative journeys
- Creating a culture of appreciation; curating processes that encourage strengths and authentic expression already displayed; at the same time build processes that sense potential and create opportunities for expression
- Building flexibility in policies & processes, giving individuals a sense of choice and responsibility
- Enhancing learning designs with curriculum that bring spotlight on inner strengths and focus on excellence of outer skills
- Sharing feedback & feedforward that enables people to keep moving in the direction of vision enablement for the organization & its clients and for their own development
- Creating on-the-job learning opportunities that enable relevant skill building through mentoring, coaching, peer & self-learning
- Creating roles that build cross functional capacities in individuals
- Re-organizing teams to enable individuals with optimum capabilities working together to deliver high quality work
- Opening up career transition opportunities, for individual & business growth whilst encouraging diversity & inclusion
- Creatively working through bottle necks to increase efficiency and process impact
- Enabling people to compassionately prioritize business or time critical actions with a sense of urgency
- Building the capacity to endure, contribute and add value to work output
- Delink performance and appraisal cycles
- Encourage and create outcomes based on performance management systems instead of output-based systems, that support expression of individual uniqueness, creative solutioning and higher efficiency
Our Solutions for your Change Makers
We hand hold teams involved in creating people processes and consult on solutions that work for your business and culture ethos. We help you uncover if your current processes & sustenance strategies are ‘fit to fulfill your future vision’. We also nudge the needle to set up processes that become value adding, reflective and productive.
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Check for process impact
- Alignment with vision, business, culture & individual aspirations
- Inter process flows – intra and inter departments / work teams -
Assess/ Audit current processes for its strengths and complexities
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Identify redundant processes that are done out of habit and no longer align to the current vision or over utilize resources or create minimal value in the system.
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Make process simplification and fulfilment a priority for your team from awareness to action.
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Consider long term value delivered to ‘Time spent’ – Investment of time in processes that have a significant impact on productivity or sustenance. Learning to replace time steelers with creative alternatives.
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Automate for simplification, reduce errors in mechanical processes and giving people roles that tap higher potential.
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Process Communication gaps – making sure that the processes are streamlines for the teams, create opportunities to collaborate and rise above conflicts to deliver work
- Check for process impact - Alignment with vision, business, culture & individual aspirations - Inter process flows – intra and inter departments / work teams
- Assess/ Audit current processes for its strengths and complexities
- Identify redundant processes that are done out of habit and no longer align to the current vision or over utilize resources or create minimal value in the system.
- Make process simplification and fulfilment a priority for your team from awareness to action.
- Consider long term value delivered to ‘Time spent’ – Investment of time in processes that have a significant impact on productivity or sustenance. Learning to replace time steelers with creative alternatives.
- Automate for simplification, reduce errors in mechanical processes and giving people roles that tap higher potential.
- Process Communication gaps – making sure that the processes are streamlines for the teams, create opportunities to collaborate and rise above conflicts to deliver work