ROLLING OUT SOFTWARE? SORT OUT YOUR OWN BACKYARD BEFORE INVITING PEOPLE TO THE PIQNIC.
Humans are creatures of habit. Often, we have difficulty incorporating new changes into our routines, even if they're beneficial to us. Whether it's a new diet, new gym routine, new wake-up time for your new role, or even getting used to a new hair cut - it can take a lot of time, effort and mental stress to adjust.
Unfortunately, the same goes for our professional lives. When a change is introduced into a business, getting the whole team on board and championing a new software or process that'll effect their day-to-day (even for the better) can feel like moving upstream.
You can imagine how much of a challenge this is for the shakers and movers in the age of digital transformation and disruptive technology. Even the most confident of innovators are faced with the challenge of rolling out their vision to a less than receptive team.
So how do you seamlessly implement new software, and continue to deliver excellence to your customers?
The answer is pretty simple. Don't jump onto the digital app bandwagon too hastily for the sake of being digitally innovative. If you do, you'll end up creating broken internal processes - and if your internal processes are fragmented, imagine what your external processes will look like to your customers.
But don't worry - there is a way. Here's our quick 'how to' for effectively rolling out your digital vision to your wider team.
If you want to bring in a new technology that'll improve your business, you'll need to make sure it's something that'll get your employees excited about using. That means considering your employees' experience before anything else.
Take PIQNIC for example; a platform that's designed to make work management smooth and simple, centralising files, people and projects in a way that fosters collaboration. While the change might initially be disruptive to your team, the software inherently puts user experience first, and make your employee's job easier. A whole lot less admin, and a whole lot more visibility - now that's something to get excited about.
The key here, is by fostering an environment of collaboration and creativity you'll improve the employee experience and get your team excited, and with excitement comes advocacy.
One of the key, underlying challenges that companies encounter when trying to roll out new, technically disruptive software, is that individuals within the company are moving in different directions.
Trying to pull together your team and get them on board with a new process can feel like clutching at straws if they're all focused on different things and don't share an overall vision.
Before on-boarding a digital workplace solution, make sure you articulate why you're bringing in a new digital transformation and how it'll impact the business positively. If people understand your vision from the get go, and how it aligns with the company they represent every day, they'll be much more likely to get behind it.
That means outlining your mission statement, values and goals, and sharing how it's going to get you to where your whole company is headed.
Leading a company in a dictatorship format, where 'what the boss says, goes' is the status quo may be an easy way to do things, but when it comes to implementing new concepts, you'll find you're lacking the culture of innovation necessary to pull off a big change.
Do the legwork from the get-go with your team and place value on new ideas and changes. Take contributions and suggestions from your employees seriously and listen to any feedback they might have.
This will mean that when the time rolls around for you to implement your brand new digital document management or workflow system, your team will be used to new ideas and respect you, as you have respected them.
People lead digital transformations, not just software, so if you want your roll-out to be a walk in the park, you'll need to foster an environment of innovation beforehand.
Once you've done the ground work and have your internal processes streamlined, as well as a team of people who are ready to champion your next big digital 'thing', you're ready to implement new software that will change the game for your business.
We have that game-changing software, and it really is a PIQNIC.
If you're interested in seeing what we have to offer and how it might help your team to digitally innovate, and channel the collaborative and change-positive environment you've created, treat yourself to a free trial.
Both you and your team will love this change.