As announced by the CEO prior to Christmas, FSC is kicking off its new 5 year strategy this year and with it comes a programme of transformational changes. If you missed the announcement you can see it here.
The programme consists of those changes we want to make to drive us forwards as an organisation. Those changes that will optimise the way we work to help us protect our core business, giving us the capacity to diversify into new and emerging markets where we can promote what we believe in, and expand our ability to influence behaviours. We need to become familiar with these highlighted words are as they underpin the next 5 years and our strategy (a short version of which is here if you would like a reminder of how they all fit together).
The programme also contains those changes that we ‘must do’. Those changes where we have to comply to external forces often outside of our direct control. And finally, it covers those changes that pop up. Those changes that just emerge throughout a year simply because few things stand still indefinitely.
The Transformational Change Programme is about putting an umbrella over all of these projects and providing them with a point of contact to help resolve issues, remove barriers and enable the success. It’s about providing an inclusive platform for effective collaboration between project teams, and most of all it’s about making sure we all realise the benefits of change (enauring we don’t do change for changes sake).
In reality, as an organisation we aren’t afraid of change, in fact we are very good at embracing it. Cinolla and the bookings review project is a change that has been driving us forward since 2016. FSC regularly adapts to radical curriculum change across the UK, and then there are things like GDPR, both of these are types of change we had to comply with. The deployment of the new accident and incident reporting system, RIDDOX, is an great case of an emergent change that’s brought efficiencies to our working practices recently, and another example is how we are already responding to the growing interest in food choices and the climate. So as you can see, change is normal, it’s happening within and around FSC all the time.
Over the coming years, everyone has a role to play in the transformational change of FSC and everyone can be part of the success. We’ll be communicating progress via a new page on the Staff News Website which will be launched soon, plus detailed information about the programme will be stored on the intranet here.
In the meantime, if you are starting a project, or currently have one ongoing and you are unsure of whether it needs to come under the umbrella of the Transformational Change Programme then please do get in touch with Andy Cawthray, Transformational Change Programme Manager.