What are The Essential Leadership Skills You NEED To Manage Through Change? An Opportunity for Development

   -Be Action-Centered.  Spend less time planning and more time doing.  Planning can be too comfortable – there are all those meetings and planning sessions – and wastes time.  Your time is more valuable in action.

   -Be Less Goal-Oriented.  Too many goals at one time are very overwhelming.  Instead, concentrate on one or two major projects and make sure everyone knows what the goals are and how they will be achieved.  Acknowledge the achievement of a goal, celebrate, and move on to another goal.

    -Be Adaptable or Go With the Flow.  Anticipate and expect confusion, disorder, and fear when change is proposed.  When you expect these behaviors as a result of change, it is easier to adapt and be flexible than to resist.  Remember what happened to the dinosaurs?  The dinosaurs were big and highly specialized.  On the other hand, the cockroaches survived
 because they adapted to most environments.  The dinosaurs are extinct while the cockroaches survive.

     -Be Energetic and Enthused.  Use your energy and enthusiasm to change the old attitude of “we’ve always done it that way” or “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”  An effective Leader always finds creative ways to solve problems (opportunities).  Use your imagination, intuition, and ideas from your team.  Be optimistic and expect that every problem has a good solution (maybe more than one!) and every opportunity has an improvement.  Remember, the foundation of courage is optimism.  Leaders know optimism and enthusiasm are contagious.  Let your team catch them!

     -Be Self-Confident.  Embrace change by acknowledging your fears and moving ahead.  Feel the fear and do it anyway.  Know that you can deal with any challenge that comes your way.  Don’t let negativity derail you and your team.  Be proactive.

     -Be Aware of the Big Three: 
Customers, Employees, and your Product or Service.  Keep these three topics as your top priorities while dealing with the improvements.  Teach your team to ask themselves how all of you can do the best for each.  The result will be that your company will improve and continue to compete in a global market.

Leading through change means setting goals for yourself and your team.  These goals must be relevant to the duties in the office and be specific to the actions needed and goals you want achieve.  They must have a detailed and objective description so everyone will know exactly what is expected.  They should also show the rewards of achievement.

IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN OFFICE KAIZEN IS:
SLOW, COMPLEX, AND HAS NO END.

It has no end because continuous improvement has no conclusion – it is always evolving.  There is always room for improvement.  As technology and procedures change, more opportunities are found.   Prioritizing is important because an implementation cannot be done all at once and be successful.  Implementation is done step-by-step with assessments along the way.