Value Engineering is an approach to understanding how what you are doing contributes to the value your Customers’ receive, and that they value. You may be surprised at what you unearth when you think about it! The video shows you the way.
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Productivity
Productivity – a simple word with multiple meanings! The UK has struggled with “productivity” since Victorian times! The Victorians were worried about the rise of the American and German industrial competition. All that a century seems to have added is a few more countries for us to be worried about! Productivity means different things to different people at different times. This video tries to clarify what “productivity” means in your organization.
Continue readingHow do I quickly engage people in the Company vision ?
Do you find people you recruit just don’t get what a fantastic place this is to work? Do they behave like it is ‘just a job’? Don’t they share your excitement, your enthusiasm and, dare I say, your passion for the organisation? This video will start you in the direction of fixing that.
Continue readingContinuous Improvement – how do I implement it?
Continuous improvement is a way of life. In your personal life you extend your exercise a little at a time, or aim lose a kilo and not ten kilos. Little and often is the way. So it is in business. People think improving productivity means working harder, faster, longer. Can anyone explain to me how that is supposed to work? Continuous improvement is detecting, evaluating, and then stopping processes that add no value. Then as the time needed to do each process shortens, you can’t help but get more done!
Continue readingStaff turnover is a big problem! Our jobs are dull and boring!
High employee churn rate? Do something about it before you are added to the churn!
Continue readingMaking people want to work
Do you think people work because they are paid to work? If that is your belief then you probably won’t watch this and you certainly won’t believe it! People work because they want to work. People GO TO work because they need money to live, but what they do when they get there is due to other reasons. Perhaps you believe in close supervision and performance reviews? That is marginally better if at all, but why pay for all those people, processes and the high recruitment costs? That sounds crazy to me.
Continue readingGrow the cake
The British have an innate sense of fair play. Try jumping the queue in Tesco and see what happens.
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