ICT benefits realisation consultancy

Supervisor workshops

Universal buy-in from supervisors provides an excellent route to mobile project success, but is often difficult to achieve in practice. We run workshops that focus on actively engaging your supervisors in identifying the benefits that new technology can deliver and motivating them to drive the project forward.

How you will benefit

Our workshops are designed to encourage discussion between supervisors and to begin to get supervisors to take ownership of the change process. We also engage in skills transfer with your project staff to enable them to provide supervisors with the most appropriate on-going support and information. The benefits being that:

• Supervisors are better informed about how the new technology will change work practices for their staff
• Supervisors show an interest and understand the challenges
• Supervisors identify a role they can play in the project and begin to identify new work processes
• The project fully utilises the expertise and experience of supervisors

What we do

We utilise our knowledge and experience of using group work techniques to develop bespoke supervisor workshops to suit your organisational requirements. In addition to this service we run stakeholder seminars to give update presentations and help you run group events to promote your new system to supervisors and senior stakeholders.

Things that may be on your mind about supervisor engagement

1. The new system provides no direct benefits for supervisors so getting them involved will be difficult
Nine times out of ten there will be direct benefits to supervisors but these may not be immediately obvious – our workshops will help supervisors identify benefits. In the unlikely event there are significant dis-benefits for the supervisors, the organisation needs to understand the extent of these dis-benefits and where possible address them. Dis-benefits need to be considered prior to and monitored during implementation so that an action plan can be developed to manage supervisors expectations effectively.
2. Some supervisors will never support the project
In these instances the goal is to identify these supervisors and to develop strategies to minimise any negative effect they can have on staff.
3. Getting a group of supervisors together would be logistically difficult
Rather than convening only one workshop it might be possible to identify times when different groups of supervisors are brought together as a group and ideas can be imported and consolidated across groups.