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Do You Tell Your Staff How or Ask Them Why?

12 June, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

FAVI is a French company that casts components for customers like Fiat and VW, a very successful company. One of the reasons why they are successful is the attitude of their CEO Jean-Francois Zobrist.  He has a simple categorisation of organisations.  They are either “Comment” or “Pourquoi”. Comment (How) organisations tell their employees how to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: compliance, empowerment, innovation, motivation, organisation, video

When Apple Got It Wrong

12 June, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Apple are widely regarded as the kings of innovation.  Whatever they touch turns to gold: The iPhone The iPod iTunes The Apple Store The App Exchange The list goes on and on, the iPad may well be next. Which got me wondering, have Apple ever had a failure?  Have you heard of: Apple TV, a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: Apple, innovation, test and learn, video

Shushhh – Are You Scared of Your Boss

12 June, 2010 by James Lawther 1 Comment

A friend of mine works for a large bank.  They are busy implementing a system replacement.  It is big, £6 million a month big. He was at a “Go / No Go” meeting last month.  They had a score card and scored their performance:1.  Accounts didn’t balance2.  Fraud risks were present3.  Management Information wasn’t available4.  […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: decisions, fessing up

The Three Levers to Improve Performance

12 June, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

There are three ways you can improve your performance: 1.  You can improve the what, what product do you deliver?  Could you make it better? 2.  You can improve the who, who delivers it for you?  Are they engaged and motivated? 3.  You can improve the how, how do you do it?  Improve the process. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement, Operations Analysis, Process Improvement Tagged With: capability, clarity

The Alternative to Shouting at Your Staff

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

How do you get people to comply?  How do you make sure that they follow the right procedures, stack the shelves in the right order or answer the phone in the right way? Check and Shout.  Check they did what you wanted and shout at them if they didn’t. Alternatively you could look at why […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: compliance, error proofing, learning

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