360º Feedback for a Manufacturing Company

The president of a mid-sized manufacturing company wanted to remove obstacles in the decision making process at the company that was preventing the company from achieving the company’s growth plan.

The current decision making process required the president’s involvement in almost all operational decisions for the firm. Management felt like they would be penalized if they made decisions without involving the president at the earliest stages of the process. Managers did not collaborate with each in the decision making process because of this “hub and spoke” decision making process and the quality of important decisions was often poor.

The president said he needed a methodology for communicating to the management team to flag which decisions were his exclusively and which decisions could be left to the management team.

CMA used a 360° feedback process to collect information from the president’s executive team and received detailed feedback on how decision making was currently made at the company. CMA then worked with the entire team to develop a system that promoted delegation for decision making as far down into the management structure as possible.

As a result of CMA’s engagement, decision making became much clearer and more effective for the firm and the company’s aggressive growth targets were achieved as planned.