Arrival & Development of Strategy

Just arrived in Porto Alegre once more, and things went really smoothly. Good food, great friends and nice conversations. Tomorrow I´ll start my 6 months project in our company.

I´m starting to put a strategy down for the next 2 weeks, and need some feedback:
- Appreciative inquire of the current situation (as a mental model in the process);
- Interview (Listen our employees, and their perpective of company and challenges that we are facing);
- Mapping challenges and necessities ( graphical visualization);
- Understanding diversity and organize this diversity in teams;
- Open chat and dialogue between managers, owners and core employees;


Interview Questions:

1. Use a dependacy chart (organizational structure), to ask the employees:
1.1 Of whom do you depend to do your job?
1.2 Is it clear who you should contact in all situations? (production, payment, HR)
1.3 What is your job?

2. Problem in the company
2.1 What are the problems in the company, or in your sector?
2.2 How would you solve it?
2.3 What is your motivation to work?
2.4 What demotivates you?

3. Learning
3.1 What would you like to learn during your stay in here?
3.2 How can the company help you with your learning goal?

4. Teamwork
4.1 What is teamwork for you?
4.2 Do you think you work in a team nowadays?
4.3 Would you like to work in a team here?
4.3.1 How work in a team would change your work?
4.3.2 Do you think it would be easier?
4.3.3 Do you think it would be funnier?
4.3.4 Is it possible to have fun during at work?

Mapping challenges and necessities ( graphical visualization);

Our goal for this week is to map the problems/challenges that we have NOW in all areas:
Ask for each "sector":
- Make a list of your challenges and a description in another sheet;

Changes What would you change in your job, routine, responsabilities? What would you change in the company? (anything, everything, free to dream)

Understanding diversity and organize this diversity in teams;

Reflections about the "learning contract" and Teamwork.

It is extremely important to understand the goals of our employees and use their motivation in our favor. Developing their potentialities, building the basis for their development and bringing motivation, innovation and happines to their work.

During the interviews I´ll go deeper in this topics, and after interview it will be applied the Belbin Test, to understand how we can creat this teamwork, and the types of "players" that we have in our core team.

Creation of team for our floor employess:
Due to the lack of culture of our floor workforce, I might use representatives from their groups, and also create teams within those employees that nowadays are just working in the company.


Open chat and dialogue between managers, owners and core employees;

How much do these dialogue sessions must be prepared?
(We need a clear goal to take from those meetings and explain clearly the rules, and the goal of the dialogue that we´ll be creating.)
What else is needed to be prepared? What is important to be discussed?


Motivations took from Margaret Wheatley
Sense of urgency, exaustion and anger....