什么是公共汽车iness Transformation and Change?
考虑到增加焦点放在转换and change due to the aforementioned shifts in the world of work, it’s easy to think of it in purely contemporary terms. However, business transformation and change have long been a cornerstone of successful company strategy, ensuring that agile businesses can adapt and evolve beyond internal roadblocks and external pressures.
While the terms are often used interchangeably, at Workday we define each as follows:
Transformation:A preplanned shift within your organisation, typically with a specific focus, such as digital or cultural, and the potential for a wide, foreseeable impact on business performance.
- Change:An unplanned shift as a result of broader, ongoing changes, either within the market or the business itself; it is usually slower and longer term with a more limited impact.
Companies have always faced changing tides, whether based on technological developments, market conditions, competition, new legislation, or social, demographic, or cultural shifts. While new areas of focus come into view each year—such as belonging and diversity or the concerns about employee wellbeing raised by the pandemic—change is a natural part of any company’s life cycle. What sets a successful business apart from its competitors is the way it adapts to that change, and how it develops its own business transformation strategy.
Why Employee Feedback Is Essential for Business Transformation
According toMcKinsey & Company, 70% of transformation programmes fail to achieve their goals. The main motivating factors behind that failure? Employee resistance and lack of management support. With the proper lines of communication to bridge the stakeholder gap, that resistance readily dissolves.
The root cause of resistance to change isn’t the transformation itself—it’s the lack of investment many employees have in those decisions. Employers who empower employees to shape wider business changes resultantly gain their buy-in, creating uplift in overall employee engagement where it previously would have slipped. McKinsey & Company further found that three-quarters of the respondents who broke the process into smaller initiatives, and whose transformations were simultaneously “extremely successful,” said that staff members were entirely or very able to participate in shaping the initiative themselves.
Making sure your transformation goals are understood across the entire business requires more than a blog announcement or an email rollout. Two-way communication creates room for constructive conversations and removes the potential disconnect of top-down planning methods. Accordingto a BCG studycarried out on almost 1,000 global businesses, the key enablers for organisations in the top quartile for transformation success consistently involved communication, including regular in-person meetings, leadership coaching programmes, and dedicated tools for alignment, including software applications or sophisticated real-time tracking methods.
Not only does employee feedback play an important role in the initial planning stage but also as a direct means of course correction. Using active listening technology, businesses can get real-time insights into how employees feel about the progress being made and any areas for potential improvement, closing the stakeholder gap. This valuable data will then further play a role in preempting potential pain points in future transformation projects.
Measuring Employee Engagement in Business Transformation Programmes
Our global survey of 1,150 senior business executives—268 of whom were human resources (HR) leaders—found that 64% of HR leaders are either confident or somewhat confident in their teams’ ability to accelerate transformation—and, by extension, enable business transformation. However, 43% weren’t confident in their teams’ ability to elevate human performance with technology. Empowering the employee voice requires a dedicatedemployee engagementsolution.
Our transformation and change question set, the latest update forWorkday Peakon Employee Voice, enables you to proactively gather real-time insights and generate data-driven action recommendations for managers. The success of those actions can then, in turn, be measured and monitored, enabling managers to map the impact each action has on employee sentiment toward the transformation project as a whole.
At the core of that new transformation and change set is one outcome question: “Organisational transformation and change is managed well at this organisation.” By giving employees a chance to respond to that statement on a scale of zero to 10, as well as providing confidential comments where appropriate, you gain their investment. That question, in turn, acts as an umbrella for eightmotivational workplace driverscovered by four categories:
- Change communication:How are employees kept informed on status and aims?
- Involvement in change:What is the impact of change on employees’ roles and their voice in change?
- Planning and resources:Have risks been taken into consideration, and what supporting resources have been allotted?
- Belief in change value:What is the consensus on leaders’ decision-making and the benefits of change?
Internal benchmarks will then indicate which areas of an organisation require more support, employee input, or communication around change to close the stakeholder gap. Not only that, but over time you’ll be able to measure your company’s progress against external benchmarks to enable comparisons of how different industries, regions, and business types manage change in their organisations.
By asking these questions, and incorporating the resultant responses into your business transformation process and plans, your transformation programme will have stronger internal support, a more seamless implementation, and a higher chance of successfully embedding those changes, leading to more sustainable organisational transformation. That’s the power of the employee voice.