Team work provides opportunity for Challenge Meats to deal with industry potential

Press, 9 October 1987, Page 25

Team work provides opportunity for Challenge Meats to deal with industry potential

In any organisation, getting everyone working towards the achievement ( of the agreed plan isn’t easy. The challenge, as Kevin Barron, training and development manager sees it, is to involve every individual contributor, be they slaughter-

man, supervisor, or farmer, in the development of the plan itself. The opportunity gets larger when an organisation, like Challenge Meats, is convinced that planning has to involve all its stockholders who may see the development

of a viable meat industry in somewhat different terms. “The meat Industry in New Zealand is seen by almost everyone you care to talk to as a negative industry. They see the problems and not the potential,” says Kevin.

“It is easy enough to Identify the. problems, the trick is to develop the commitment to want to do something about it, and we can’t do that by endlessly sitting around observing and analysing. “Everyone involved has to accept the need

for change and through genuine involvement jin decision nuking. > *“• vironment in Which Individual input' is welcomed and the fear of failure removed, then the decisions we make will be a lot more efficient than they have been in the past,” he said.