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Selling an Idea

3 December, 2015 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Entrancing Presentation

Presentation skills I guess that you — like me — spend lots of time selling ideas.  Trying to get funding and resources for the projects and improvements that you want to do. My standard approach is to bang a load of information into PowerPoint and hope for the best.  I want to show the man […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tools & Techniques, Wild Cards Tagged With: communication, presentations

What Gets Rewarded Gets Done

26 November, 2015 by Bernie Smith 1 Comment

The walk I have always thought sheep dogs were intelligent. I didn’t realise, until recently, that they are smarter than me. I was walking with Kate — a friend of mine. Her sheep dog, a Border Collie called Harvey, was with us. After 10 miles or so Harvey seemed to be flagging. He stopped at […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: employee performance measures, measurement, targets

Marshmallows and the Cure for Everything

22 November, 2015 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Test and learn Now I’m married with daughters I don’t go out that often. Nightclubs and cinemas are a thing of the past (unless it is to watch Frozen… 4 times and counting). An evening in front of the TV is a treat. I sat down last night to watch a re-run of House.  It […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: marshmallow challenge, plan do check act, problem solving, TED talks, test and learn, video

Are You Difficult to Work For?

13 November, 2015 by Annette Franz (Gleneicki) 3 Comments

Customer effort There’s a lot of talk about how much effort a customer is required to put forth to complete some task with an organization. Whether it’s to buy a product, to get an issue resolved, or to do something else. There’s even a way to measure this effort, using the customer effort score. If […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, customer effort, employee performance measures, management style, waste

What is an Organisation?

8 November, 2015 by James Lawther 4 Comments

You can’t improve it if you don’t understand it You can’t improve your organisation if you don’t understand what an organisation is. So I googled organisation, this is what I found: Organisation: noun /ɔːɡ(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ An organised group of people with a particular purpose. – “a research organisation” The action of organising something. – “the organisation of conferences” The quality […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: beliefs, point optimisation, systems thinking, video

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