Human Resources (HRD)
When it comes to figuring out problems in your organization, what is the most effective and resourceful way to do it? Well, if you are incharge, the owner, all you have to do is convey what youexpect. Your verdict is final and everybody has to do what you say. But are you sure that the decision you made is the best possible answer to your problem? Is the answerconclusion that you came up with what will resolve the problem or just postpone the inevitable? Is only getting the view or participation from one person the very best way to go about solving a predicament or is it better to get a view and thoughts from various individuals? Of course, a problem can better be dissected and recognized with many people working on it. When varying views and various perspectives are looked through, the better it is to discover new ideas. The shared knowledge and worldview and skill of many different workers is much broader and much more wide ranging than if it is limited to just one person. That person may have a lot of practice and be extremely knowledgeable, but when you add access to many brains and multiple ideas, you are nearly always more likely to get a better result.
This group of individuals, this group that you are going to assemble will need some aid getting started. Who is best to put on your team? It is always going to be a little different and for each problem you may want to have another group leader. You want your leader to be an individual that all members can get behind and that everyone respects. You also need them to be experienced about what they are looking at and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the members, then more than likely they are all of the above. This group is going to be accountable for a large undertaking and they will be looked at to resolve the situation and do it as capably and cost effective as possible. You will want somebody on the team that has skill working with these types of teams and has familiarity with groups and lean practices in general. You will also need group members that are varied in their job duties and are up and down the chain of command. You do not want a group that is merely comprised of upper management or only employees on the factory floor. If you do this, then you will not get the thoughts and the varied perspectives that you need. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more opportunities you will get an proposal or point of view that you weren’t expecting and that might be new to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a team can often be a combination of views that come from the entire group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the thoughts that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more completely.