Accelerating Continuous Improvement

An organisation’s ability to learn, grow and refresh itself is critical to achieving high performance. Fostering and managing continuous improvement techniques are vital for organisations wanting to achieve the global edge over their competitors. Global leaders recognise they are working in a less predictable, more open system than ever before. To achieve success in this kind of environment, what is needed are the five essential drivers what we call the “High Five Principles” of managing for accelerating continuous improvement.

Here are the five principles for making it happen.

1. Reach beyond Your Dreams

Leaders of highly successful initiatives do not base their goals only on what they know they can achieve. Instead, they fuel their achievements with aspirations that others often call impossible.

2. Blaze Your Own Trail

When reaching for aims that appear impossible, trail blazing leaders put aside their proven methodologies and disciplined plans and strike off with a brash kind of confidence, even to some extent arrogance knowing there is no turning back. Frequently, these kinds of leaders will inspire a great number of followers.

3. Create a Strong Emotional Field

Leaders of highly successful initiatives realise that it is vital to recognise the power of emotion, especially on a team that is breaking new ground, and that with the right attention, this emotion can magnify the strength of the team and be transformed into the energy necessary to succeed.

4. Spiral Up

Highly successful initiatives sometimes progress along unexpected path ways, and part of the genius of this is to know, how to influence an initiative along the pathway most likely to reach the goal.

5. Use Luck as an Accelerator

Organizations capable of continuous renewal know they are riding a beast only partly tamed. They do not control all the factors that produce success, but they know how to turn events to their advantage. They know how to spot opportunities and how to propel themselves forward when luck turns to their advantage.

To opt for the “ACI High Five Principals” direction for the future, executives should:

·        Find their company’s “go getters.” Every organisation includes team members with highly successful initiatives to their credit, and the people who have worked with them know exactly who they are.

·        Legitimize the upside management approach. Capturing some of the company’s own contrarian examples and sharing the stories broadly will help bring this kind of management out of the shadows.

·        Use it to break with the past. A contrarian approach should encourage executives to accept the distinctly uncomfortable feeling of being out of control. But in the process, they will begin to exercise organisational muscles they forgot they had.

Any manager can achieve incomparable success. Yes you can how? Reserve conventional project management for initiatives with well-worn pathways to predictable results, and adopt this contrarian management approach when opportunity beckons.

To drive continuous improvement manage from the upside use the “High Five Principals” and become a Global Leader within your Industry Sector

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