"Last year, the management team at my current organization found out that staff were going to be required to begin using a call-in timecard service due to the prior difficulty in managing manual time sheets for staff all over the state. The administrative burden that the company was taking on was getting to be too much, and the work to complete timecard reporting for hourly staff was now in their hands. While I know this change seems pretty simple, people in the workplace really do buck change and this bucking can be contagious. Knowing I had to discuss this new method with my staff quickly, I decided to first approach the two senior member of my team to let them know of the change and give them the hard sell on the ease that this would provide for staff. My idea was if they bought in to the change, the rest of the staff would follow. The plan worked great, as in the weeks following the change, only one staff member had some minor issues in remembering to report their time worked at the end of each day."
