Getting the whole team on the same page
Proximity managers meet daily with their colleagues and department management in a production review ritual to review the previous day’s performance gaps. They also review ongoing and expiring actions to ensure that all issues impacting operational performance are resolved.
The virtual meeting room used for management rituals allows this review of actions review in a prioritized agenda with all the management tools gathered in one place. Managers can thus create a real – paperless – efficiency hub.
Clear and accessible work instructions
The most experienced employees are often knowledgeable about job-specific procedures and best practices, but these can be hard to keep up to date and enforce consistently.
By consulting the Knowledge Center, the manager can immediately answer his team members' questions concerning their tasks and help them put the optimized procedures and processes into practice. He can even guide them through the well-defined step-by-step work instructions, supported by pictures and videos that employees can also access by themselves on a tablet.
Switching to ‘Solution Mode’ and taking action
When participating in management rituals focused on a specific theme, such as health and safety committees, the manager discusses issues raised in the field and assigned to that ritual with the appropriate stakeholders to determine the actions to be taken and follow up on those that are already underway. Actions are then assigned to responsible parties to ensure accountability and a deadline is set for resolution.
If the issue requires a more complex action plan, a project can be created in Utrakk’s Project Tracking module. The management of this problem can then switch to active solution and resolution mode.
Learning and sharing
At any time or when they need help, the manager can consult the UTrakk community for tips and information about the app.
Through Q&As and thematic discussions, they have access to a network of professionals to take full advantage of the benefits of UTrakk on their team's performance management and learn from other users’ experiences.
For planned and measured progress
In a continuous improvement process, the manager meets with their coach to work together on developing management skills. The coach refers to the Manager's Passport in UTrakk for:
- Planning coaching sessions
- Making and following the management skills progression plan
- Reviewing progress through Key Behavioral Indicators (KBI).
The manager and coach can thus work on active supervision, consideration factors, the ability to give clear objectives, etc. in order to continuously evolve according to a plan tailored to them.
Taking charge with confidence
To ensure smooth management without silos, proximity managers meet at shifts changes to pass on all the useful information for the next shift.
With the UTrakk shift report, managers have a common definition of objectives (KPI) and can visualize performance at a glance to identify performance gaps that require intervention and the deployment of corrective actions.
All essential information is thus systematically transmitted through consistent communication between managers who ensure alignment and collaboration between the different shifts working towards common goals.
Taking a step back to challenge oneself
Before leaving, the manager takes a moment to consult the dashboards and make a status of the conformities and non-conformities recorded during the shift in order to analyze the variances of the different performance axes (by workstation, by cause, etc.) in order to prioritize the actions needed to fix the situation.
This is the time to review the achievement of goals, complete information on the day’s events as needed, revise the action plans and map out priorities for the next day.
Leaving with peace of mind
Once the day is over the manager returns home at peace, proud of the work they have accomplished with their team and confident in their abilities going forward.
A complete management tool that performs from morning to night, and beyond
With UTrakk to assist in mastering their daily role, the manager’s days are structured through the ritualization of their active supervision and management activities. Prioritizing and optimizing actions with high added value are a snap with the tool – management is more coherent and rigorous thanks to standardized communication points with their team.
By using the Field Tour module on their tablet or smartphone, they systematize the collection of quantitative and qualitative data during their active supervision tours and accelerate the escalation of performance gaps within the organization by creating, assigning, and monitoring concrete actions to address them.
The structure, flow, and follow-up of their management meetings are also optimized through virtual meeting rooms which, like the Field Tour module, provide a frame of reference allowing them to replace another manager as needed, with the flexibility to go to another department if necessary (and vice versa). As such, integrating new managers with the app is a simple matter!
And beyond this, the Manager’s Passport guides and informs their coach to help them develop their management skills according to a personalized game plan.
More collaboration throughout the organization
With managers who are properly equipped to effectively drive performance in the field, the entire organization wins!
When operational issues are captured and effectively communicated to the appropriate stakeholders, different teams, departments, and hierarchical levels collaborate better on a daily basis by moving into solution mode. It is then possible to create a real cohesion to perform and evolve in a coherent and proactive way as an organization.
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