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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

Paying People to Lie

3 October, 2015 by James Lawther 1 Comment

The best way to fill your organisation with liars… Is to set up an incentive scheme.  I guarantee at least two deceptions: The first deceit The lying starts with the debate about the target: What service level can you meet? What can you shave off your budget? How much extra can you sell? 10%? 20%? 30%? If someone has a bonus […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: employee performance measures, human nature, incentives, motivation, performance management, targets, video

Rule 19: Look after the Workforce

6 September, 2015 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Dear Karma I have a list of people you missed

You don’t understand the work You might think you have a tight grip of how your operation is working… but you just don’t.  How can you?  You spend your days in meetings.  Picking up actions to write PowerPoints you can present at more meetings.  You are rarely in the workplace. The workforce understand the work […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: employee recognition, gemba, human nature, leadership

Rule 18: Discuss the Work

31 August, 2015 by James Lawther 5 Comments

There are two types of conversations about work: The first is a Friday evening conversation.  It is best held at about 5pm in the pub just around the corner from the office in hushed tones. The first conversation discusses who: Who screwed up Who is on the way up Who is on the way out And […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bitching and moaning, blame, communication, gemba, key performance indicators, plan do check act, stand up meetings

Rule 8: Train Your Staff

8 July, 2015 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Stupidity has its charms ignorance does not

Your staff’s performance varies Some know how to stack shelves faster than others Some know how to negotiate a sale better than others Some know how to resolve a query more effectively than others Some know how to welcome customers more warmly than others Some variation is helpful — there would be no test and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: best practice, gemba, learning, training

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