Essential strategies for securing transformational initiatives in growing organisations

The most important contribution a star employee can make to your business is to improve it. However, over-zealous implementations of quality-paradigms valuing consistency and compliance over innovation can inhibit management from identifying, let alone reaping the benefits of, the richness of diversity in their labour force and the variety of employees’ passions and imaginations.

Too often by the time a pet project’s contribution to the bottom-line is appreciated the project designer has grown disaffected by a lack of recognition, and/or has moved on to pastures which are more geared to encourage innovation.

My latest study of high performing professionals revealed six strategies for protecting transformational initiatives from dissolving into the bureaucratic wilderness and ensuring their normalisation across an operation. These are described within the acronym STAIRR and address six thematic areas: Structure, Transition, Authority, Inspiration, Reporting, and Reward.

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