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Practical Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction
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| Inexpensive and quick actions to raise output and / or lower input in your organization, whatever your line of business. Act to raise profits or output, to ease bottlenecks, to refine operations that have lost their sharp focus over time or start effective new ones.
My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.
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Cost Control in this Economy
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| Cost control is not just a checklist, but a way of thinking that cost effectiveness is the primary objective. Focus on results, not the process. And please, don’t just look at direct hourly people for improvement. That is probably not where your big costs are. Show me the money.
For a deeper analysis, my book called Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, Thrive offers actions for any phase of the economy, for all levels of the organization chart. It is listed on Amazon, search by the title please. It is available in a Kindle edition as well as paperback.
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Increase Employee Productivity with Coaching
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| Workplace productivity is one of those topics that never seems to be far from the minds of business owners. Ultimately, while it’s true that a great deal of attention is paid to what is currently being accomplished, the greater focus is often placed on what can be done to further increase employee productivity.
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PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, and FOCUS – Doing the Next Right Thing
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| There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those techniques, tools, and all-out systems for getting more organized and maximizing personal productivity. |
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Conflicts in the Workplace: Top 10 Workplace Dysfunctions - And How to TERMINATE Them
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| Purge your workplace of dysfunctional behavior and you will terminate all workplace conflicts and improve your organization's productivity...
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Is There a Cost to Increased Productivity?
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| It's been proven again and again in staff surveys and research that it's people and they're happiness quotient in the workplace that makes all the difference in their effectiveness. Yet, when it comes to measuring productivity, many organizations don't pay any attention to staff satisfaction and the happiness quotient when they measure and implement changes regarding productivity. Is there a cost to increased productivity?
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The Electronic Workplace
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| BlackBerries, Iphones, laptop computers, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. These are just a handful of the everyday technology advances impacting most every avenue of life, including the workplace. Along with technological advances in hardware systems, the social networking boom is changing the productivity of the workplace. In today's issue, Astronology reviews some of the many advantages and disadvantages of a more electronic workplace. |
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5 Steps to Creating a Successful Workplace
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| A successful workplace that fosters productivity and the growth of its employees is accomplished by implementing five fundamental elements: goal setting, rewards, balance, accountability and feedback. While each element can be implemented on its own, administering all elements as a complete program or initiative in the workplace will work towards producing the desired results that are sought after by managers and executives. |
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EI - The Most Powerful Tool in Your Kit
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| Getting more with fewer resources is a mantra in today's workplace. Emotional Intelligence plays a big part in personal and corporate productivity. Emotional assessment, training and education can play a big role in the effort to get more (productivity) with fewer resources. |
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Increase Employee Productivity with Coaching
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| Workplace productivity is one of those topics that never seems to be far from the minds of business owners. Ultimately, while it’s true that a great deal of attention is paid to what is currently being accomplished, the greater focus is often placed on what can be done to further increase employee productivity.
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Attacking Fatigue in the Workplace
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| A major workplace issue today is employee fatigue. Alertness in the workplace pays for itself through productivity, safety and quality. It doesn’t happen by accident. Managers can minimize fatigue by attacking it on seven fronts: (1) education, (2) start times, (3) shift length, (4) fixed vs. rotating shifts, (5) consecutive days of work, (6) employee preferences and (7) overtime. |
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How to Motivate Employess - Without Breaking the Bank
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| They are age-old management questions: how to motivate employees for higher productivity and how to get them to produce over and beyond established goals without busting the budget. Fortunately, there are several solutions.
We must remember that while employees need money to survive, they often are motivated by other elements in the workplace. As humans, we all have different motivators. In my consulting practice, I've found that - besides money - there are eight primary employee needs which, when satisfied, become motivators for higher productivity. When management can determine and then best satisfy its employees' needs, it will create a process that promotes productivity without going over budget. Following are the eight needs with some tips on how to best use them to motivate.
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Outing Employee Procrastination
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| Procrastination drops productivity. Lower productivity drops profits. Procrastination hurts employees and management. Here are some things to think about when trying to control and stop procrastination in your workplace. |
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