Welcome to Optimus Seventh Generation
Optimus specialises in helping our clients to implement significant change and deliver Operational Excellence with safety at the core. We use ‘Care’ as a catalyst to enable our clients to really make a difference and create the future they are striving for. This is a future where people are valued, care is demonstrated and excellence is achieved.
Diagnose
what does Excellence look like? If you can see it, you can achieve it!
If you don’t know what excellence looks like, how will you know in what direction to head, or know when you get there? The fundamental building blocks for a caring culture and operational excellence lie in clarity of Vision and Values for the organisation. These help inform the way that decisions are made and choices are taken throughout the organisation. It’s easy to say that ‘Target Zero’ or ‘Incident Free Operations’ is what we want. But those statements don’t give us the ‘how’. When we help our clients get clear about their outcomes, they have a route map for the journey. Examples of outcomes might be:
- Making safety the foundation of all decision-making
- Working as one team and looking after each other
- Addressing silent consents
- Identifying opportunities for reducing carbon footprint
We help our clients get really clear on what excellence looks like for them, help them create a true vision of how they want to be, along with the values that can help them deliver that vision when consistently demonstrated by all. In the process we uncover limiting beliefs about what is possible
How we do it
With a clear vision of success in place, we then implement a planned diagnostic process. This process gives both ourselves and our an understanding of what is really going on. We like to think we are a fresh pair of eyes seeing what our clients aren’t able to see. We use a selection of methods to do this:
- On-site observation by trained coaches – on the worksite, in meetings, between individuals and teams, within the leadership team, from the top down and bottom up
- Leadership Visioning/Values workshops
- Behavioural Evaluation Measurement System
- Cultural Surveys
- Behavioural prediction techniques
- Bespoke 360° feedback
- Focus groups
- Conversations across the organisation
- Analysis of company data from existing audits/surveys/studies
- Review of existing systems such as :
- Control of work/Permit systems
- Key Performance Indicators
- Benchmarking with peers
- Existing training programme impacts
- PMRs
- Safety critical backlog
All of the above tools are used to provide a picture of our client’s current reality, to identify:
- Areas of excellence within the operation (when we highlight excellence, we can use it as a baseline for transferring excellence to other areas)
- Opportunities for improvement (with potential severity of any issues highlighted)
- Your blind spots (issues and challenges you were not aware of)
- Baseline or benchmark measurements (these may relate to more general performance and not just safety)
This diagnostic phase becomes the feedstock for the change programme we develop to bring about the required difference. The data also creates a series of meaningful, value adding benchmarks against which future change can be measured.
This phase helps our client understand what is possible and how we can help them make it a reality.
