6 X 18 Improvement Tips on Awareness

1. How to improve your awareness on Bottlenecks and Roadblocks:

1. Keep a close eye on potential business embargos and trade restrictions
2. Always have a plan B in the event if the plan A fails for some reasons
3. Speak to employees to understand any challenges they currently face
4. Review the existing business processes and take corrective actions to address inefficiencies??
5. Identify the key resources and carry out a succession plan for them
6. Review and correct the Business Continuity plan on a periodic basis?
7. Identify the skill gaps and train resources to improve efficiencies?
8. Brainstorm with department heads on potential ways to improve efficiency?
9. Remove bottlenecks by either amending the process or replacing the resources?
10. For external roadblocks navigate through potential outsourcing options?
11. For legislation issues seek for expert advice on effective navigations?
12. Build better relationships with government and legal entities
13. Do ad-hoc audits to ensure things are going smoothly
14. Review set KPIs and carry out required improvements and track continuously
15. Seek support on Business Intelligence tools for easy tracking of progress?
16. Execute plan B at times to ensure the business continuously is ensured
17. Cross train the resources and run dry runs to ensure process continuity?
18. Reduce person dependability on key roles by periodic swaps of people for such roles?

2. How to improve your awareness on Organizational Strategy and Goals:

1. Allocate time from your calendar on a periodic basis to read through changes?
2. Discuss with your peers and subordinates for any clarity issues
3. Foresee for potential change requirements of strategy and adjust yourself way in advance
4. Stay in touch with Strategy teams on a continuous basis?
5. Brainstorm with strategy teams on potential challenges and solutions?
6. Educate your teams on such changes to improve your visibility as well
7. Take questions from the employees to strategy teams to obtain clarification needed
8. Try to keep in mind the core pillars of strategy points & Vision and Mission Statements
9. Always align your conversations to organization strategies to stay relevant?
10. Volunteer yourself into any brainstorming discussions or workshops
11. Revisit goals and suggest for improvements and finetuning
12. Discuss and create awareness of goal changes for better visibility?
13. Be open for feedback on goals from employees and incorporate any fair amendments?
14. Review employee awareness on their own goals on a periodic basis
15. Stay updated with the communication guidelines of the organization
16. Carry out a self-assessment to check your awareness Strategy and Goals
17. Gamify the learnings on Strategy and Goals to keep to more engaging?
18. Take measures for those who fail to update themselves on personal goals?

3. How to improve your awareness on Organizational Policy and Procedures

1. Allocate time to go through Organizational Policies and Prodecures
2. Keep a continuous track of the updates and be aware of the specific updates?
3. Prioritize the Policies and Procedures per your job functions?
4. Evaluate to understand how the changes could impact business processes
5. Brainstorm Policy changes with the teams for potential challenges
6. Highlight any challenges to the relevant business stakeholders?
7. Always be positive for employee feedback on policy changes and terms?
8. Revisit policies to validate its relevance and to see identify potential amendments?
9. Check for department level Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for updates
10. Allocate time for employees to go through relevant Policies & Procedures??
11. Make the awareness process gamified to make it interesting?
12. Test employee awareness on the Policies and Guidelines?
13. Improve awareness among employees on why they need to adhere to these
14. Remove ambiguity from the Policies and Procedures?
15. Carry out interactive discussions with teams in Policy and Procedure Reviews?
16. Carry out a self-awareness to check knowledge on policies and procedures?
17. Initiate assessments to validate awareness on a periodic basis
18. Link this to a KPIs to ensure employees are taking it seriously?

4. How to improve your awareness on Employee Strengths and Weaknesses

1. Engage closely with employees at workplace?
2. Obtain feedback from direct managers on the employee strengths and weaknesses
3. Carry out periodic assessments of employee strengths and weaknesses?
4. Cross train the employees to figure out if there can be any improvements?
5. Provide a performance improvement plan to improve on key skills?
6. Identify potential weaknesses of employees and work on corrective actions
7. Provide upskilling opportunities for employees?
8. Allow employees to transfer within business units if they are proven capable
9. Pay special attention on key employees who are strategically important?
10. Have on to one conversation with employees on their weaknesses?
11. Understand the root cause on the weaknesses & address the same
12. Improve the confidence levels of employees motive frequently?
13. Recognize the efforts to improve on weaknesses?
14. Identify the potential gaps of knowledge for upskilling requirements?
15. Mentor the employees in more friendly manner to overcome any challenges?
16. Create teams comprising of multiple skills to adhere organizational needs
17. Set KPIs and measure them closely for better outcomes?
18. Often revisit the benchmarking to keep improving continuously?

5. How to improve your awareness Organizational Communication Guidelines

1. Stay updated with any recent changes to communication guidelines
2. Discuss communication guidelines with teams for knowledge sharing
3. Validate communication compliance for any communications made
4. Highlight any unclear ambiguous areas in guidelines for clarifications
5. Suggest changes or modifications for any areas of improvements
6. Validate team’s awareness on guidelines on a timely basis
7. Review past non-compliance to avoid such in future?
8. Implement damage control for any potential non compliances?
9. Review employee handbooks coverage on communication guidelines
10. Obtain feedback from employees on the communication guidelines?
11. Enable easy accessibility to communication guidelines?
12. Figure out root cause for common non-compliance of communications
13. Carry out quizzes to validate if employees are updated on recent changes?
14. Create awareness on why communication guidelines should be followed?
15. Use anonymous suggestion forms for improvements?
16. Carry out periodic internal and external surveys
17. Set targets to address you gaps in communication guidelines?
18. Apply hypothetical scenarios to check if you act right following guidelines?

6. How to improve your awareness on Latest Trends?

1. Follow news on latest innovations around the world
2. Have a look at what your competitors do better & practice what is relevant?
3. Review key failures of your competition & avoid such happening within your workplace
4. Identify what disrupts your industry as a whole?
5. Engage with people who are positive towards innovation & change
6. Self-learn on new technologies and methodologies?
7. Ask for support if you think you need help in understanding some new trends
8. Drive innovation within organization among all employees at all levels?
9. Try things in a new way to see if that helps improve
10. Obtain expert opinion when it comes to rolling out new methodologies??
11. Create awareness among employees of such new trends or methodologies
12. Lean what leading companies in the world are doing
13. Visit companies who are successful to experience things by yourself
14. Take active participation on innovation workshops happening around
15. Volunteer yourself to engage in thought leadership engagements?
16. Make reading a habit and allocate time for it
17. Learn about technological threats and breaches?
18. Be a member of volunteer associations dedicated for latest trends

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