Archbold in Yello mode
How? By encouraging their commitment so that they will embrace the strategic issues and set up their own means of action. This leads to a totally new, innovative approach which is taking shape at our Archbold site in the United States.
The Yello program is coming together at the Archbold site (USA). As Mathieu Cottier, the site manager, explains:
“We informed the employees about the Ambition 2025 vision and the challenges for 2023. They embraced them and can now put forward anything they want to respond to them”.
To foster the teams’ commitment, we first had to create a conducive environment and set up tools, such as a “ Yello House” where employees can express themselves, workshops, etc. “The idea is that employees have the keys and control over their performance,” says Mathieu Cottier.
Reinventing our way of working
For Frédéric Goncalves, the Group’s Operational Excellence Manager, “What Mathieu has understood is that we have to allow ourselves to let go. Each time we define a goal, we take into account the people who are going to achieve it. They have to embrace it and find a benefit in it. That is what makes all the difference”.
It has involved a lot of hard work: management training, kick-off, increase in the number of Yello consultant “champions” within the teams, etc. Frédéric Goncalves also visited the site three times to help set up the program.
Boosting our performances
Yello is not just a deployment tool. It is a new way of conceiving a project in its entirety. “We are currently starting a new, very important project. Before, we would have started by ‘how much are we going to earn’. Now that we have adopted a Yello way of thinking, we first of all asked “How are we going to mobilize the employees” and “How are we going to enable them to enjoy working”, says Mathieu Cottier.
Results are, of course, the ultimate aim of this approach. However, as Frédéric Goncalves reminds us: “With commitment and motivation, performance is vastly enhanced”. This means placing employees at the heart of the project so that they become actively involved in their own performance, in line with the Group’s values: Respect, Commitment, Performance.
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