There is much confusion around productivity, and its meaning, not helped by the same word being used to mean different things. The meaning differs for an individual, an organisation and the Government! Productivity is important, indeed vital. It determines your standard of living: whether your organisation succeeds and how much the Government has to spend. We need better productivity to afford the NHS, Education, Police, in fact, for everything the Government provides. You can watch a definition of productivity here Watch the video to improve your thinking on productivity.
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Value Engineering your Processes
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 – 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!
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