Are you the only person in your group that wishes the company to make more money?
Is everyone thinking about the company, or just their job?
Like spokes in a wheel, each person is integral to how the company operates, how it makes money, how the customers feel, and how the company remains sustainable over time.
How many in your team come up with ideas on how to improve their position, their process, or the process outside of the group?
How many in your team share their ideas?
Does your company reward and encourage their initiative?
Initiative isn't just about showing up to work or completing reports without prompting as you likely know already. Process improvement does not come easily, nor does it come with just one person.
Lean improvement comes with the collaboration, initiation, and promotion of everyone on the team.
The individual is to be encouraged and embraced.
The team is to be embraced.
Lean implementation will then be embraced, nurtured, successful and productive.
Many companies do not know how to encourage initiative; it's not taught in schools.
How do you encourage initiative?
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