Making initiatives work is a challenge that faces people at all levels and in all types of organizations. Regardless of the type of improvement being implemented, all share a need for practical ideas to make the initiative succeed. Battling the Barriers to Success is organized as a quick reference to identify and categorize the issues you face while trying to keep your workplace improvement initiative on target. Because it's better to catch the problem before it starts, this book is the optimum tool for improving workplace initiatives through prevention and trouble shooting.With a unique, interactive approach to recognizing barriers specific to your endeavor, Klubnik and Roschelle offer custom-crafted methods for overcoming these obstacles by defeating the barrier before it becomes a problem.Based upon their 40 plus years of work and observation, the authors recognize and detail barriers common to the workplace initiative. Each barrier is formatted to offer information about: self-assessment - a quick check to determine if the barrier exists within the organization; what needs to be done - a brief description of the barrier and what can be done about it; why - a consideration of the costs to the organization and/or initiative if the barrier is allowed to exist; how - a recipe for action - ways of overcoming or minimizing the barriers; and who - a look at the people who need to be involved: the key players and their role in implementation.Throughout each chapter, Klubnik and Roschelle have included tools, techniques, and self-assessment questions providing effective methods for readers to distinguish, analyze, and set about battling their own specific barriers. Read Less