IMPQI305 – Secure commitment to an improvement strategy in food operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to secure commitment to an improvement strategy within your organisation, to support your organisation's drive to improve food operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food supply chain. Securing commitment is central to ensuring that an improvement strategy will have the resources, support and agreement it needs to be successfully implemented.
You will need to show and understand how you prepare adequately for securing the commitment in a planned and systematic way, to complement the development and agreement of the improvement strategy. You will need to comply with your company policies for strategic or business planning and take full responsibility for your actions. It involves ensuring that those with responsibility for directing and managing the resultant change and improvement across the business, are committed to delivering the policies, procedures and actions required by the strategy.
This standard applies to you if you are a manager or consultant who has responsibility for securing commitment to an improvement strategy within an organisation, to direct and manage improvement in food or drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Produce a plan for securing commitment to the improvement strategy
review the implications and requirements of the improvement strategy
draft and agree plans for securing commitment to the strategy with the relevant personnel and stakeholders
discuss and confirm the key objectives, the scope of the plans and the available resources, with relevant personnel and any key stakeholders
make any final changes to plans where necessary and confirm the final plans with the relevant people
Secure commitment to the improvement strategy
brief relevant personnel and managers about your plans, and clarify their roles and responsibilities
implement your plan for securing commitment, selecting and applying a range of directive tools and techniques appropriate to the needs for negotiating, influencing, persuading and agreeing
communicate progress to management, any key stakeholders and any others on a regular basis
identify in the light of progress any required changes to your plan for securing commitment, obtaining agreement from the relevant personnel where necessary
achieve your plans for securing commitment
confirm satisfactory completion of your plan with management and any key stakeholders
Obtain and provide feedback on securing commitment to the strategy
evaluate the impact of your activities to secure commitment, identifying what lessons can be learned and recognising the contributions of any relevant personnel
seek feedback on the value of your contribution to securing commitment to the strategy from the relevant personnel
provide feedback on your contribution to securing commitment of the strategy to the relevant personnel
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
your organisation's emerging improvement vision, strategy, the rationale for strategy and its change and improvement implications for your organisation
the main models and methods suitable for securing the commitment necessary for improvement to be formally adopted by your organisation, and their advantages and disadvantages
how to identify and make contact with the relevant people and stakeholders with whom you need to secure commitment to the strategy
how to devise and agree plans for securing commitment to an improvement strategy
how to assess and manage the risks and benefits associated with securing commitment to improvement strategy, and its implications for organisational change and improvement
the importance of contingency planning and how to do so effectively
how to make critical decisions
what skills are required to secure commitment to the strategy including, negotiating, influencing, persuading and agreeing and how to apply these skills at the appropriate level
the internal and resource barriers to securing commitment to strategy, and the techniques that deal with these
stakeholder and line management expectations and how they influence the commitment process 1
how to make changes to plans and carry out corrective direction as circumstances dictate and the associated management of priorities and rationales for colleagues
the communication channels used to inform, both formal and informal
how to evaluate the success and impact of securing commitment
the range of information sources and case studies available to support the rationale for improvement
how to give and receive feedback about securing commitment and related management of change and improvement issues
IMPQI305 – Secure commitment to an improvement strategy in food operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to secure commitment to an improvement strategy within your organisation, to support your organisation's drive to improve food operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food supply chain. Securing commitment is central to ensuring that an improvement strategy will have the resources, support and agreement it needs to be successfully implemented.
You will need to show and understand how you prepare adequately for securing the commitment in a planned and systematic way, to complement the development and agreement of the improvement strategy. You will need to comply with your company policies for strategic or business planning and take full responsibility for your actions. It involves ensuring that those with responsibility for directing and managing the resultant change and improvement across the business, are committed to delivering the policies, procedures and actions required by the strategy.
This standard applies to you if you are a manager or consultant who has responsibility for securing commitment to an improvement strategy within an organisation, to direct and manage improvement in food or drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Produce a plan for securing commitment to the improvement strategy
Secure commitment to the improvement strategy
Obtain and provide feedback on securing commitment to the strategy
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
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