Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week. Today I want to leave you with a short tip about enriching the jobs of your employees. What do employees want? You find the answer to this question by asking them! However, most employees seek intrinsic rewards. “Employees want interesting, challenging work, and the opportunity toContinue reading “E.O.W(End of the Week) Notable Tip: Emphasize Intrinsic Rewards”
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Taxes: Depreciation Categories
When buying assets it is important to know the best way to purchase and depreciate to take advantage of tax loopholes. Capital expenses usually include the following assets: buildings, cell phones, computers and software, copyrights and patents, equipment, improvements to business property, inventory, office furnishings and decorations, small tools and equipment, vehicles and window coverings.Continue reading “Taxes: Depreciation Categories”
Lean Wednesday Tip: Mitigating High Growth Challenges
“When you have a high growth atmosphere there are sure to be inefficiencies that start creeping up into operational processes. Effective leaders ensure value is maintained and/or optimized instead of lost, they create efficient workflows and make decisions by fact as a way to manage the increased challenges brought on by high growth, and don’tContinue reading “Lean Wednesday Tip: Mitigating High Growth Challenges”
E.O.W. (End of the Week) Notable Tip: Bulk Up Savings with More Cash Back
Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week! Today, I want to talk about ebates.com and how this site can help your business save more money. Ebates is a shopping portal website that lets you earn cash back on your purchases. You can choose to either receive your cash via check or Paypal. It’sContinue reading “E.O.W. (End of the Week) Notable Tip: Bulk Up Savings with More Cash Back”
Lean Wednesday Tip: Optimize productivity with Visual Tasks (Kanban)
“By using visual task boards (Kanban) that portray clear time-frames and expectations coupled with the prioritization of tasks including preventative plans for mitigating the unexpected is a great way to optimize productivity. It is important that work-in-progress is kept low to reduce over-production. You can also encourage employees to collaborate on tasks as well.”
E.O.W. (End of the Week) Notable Tip: You can say “NO” to a Client
Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week. Today, I want to discuss client relationships. Ever been ganged up on by frustrated employees who felt betrayed by a manager that could not say no to a client’s unfair demands or bad treatment? If not, then lucky you! “Effective leaders know when to say noContinue reading “E.O.W. (End of the Week) Notable Tip: You can say “NO” to a Client”
Successfully Integrating Value Stream Mapping into Product Development
Whenever there is a new product or service being offered to customers, there is a new process and value stream. Value Streams include both non-value-added and value-added activities and are the actions required to create a product or service from raw material until it reaches the customer. Value Stream Maps are more detailed than processContinue reading “Successfully Integrating Value Stream Mapping into Product Development”
Lean Wednesday Tip: Target Employee Strengths for optimized performance and employee satisfaction
“Great managers know the importance of recognizing individual employee strengths, praising them when they do a good job, and allowing them to enhance these strengths by giving them projects that require them to use them.”
E.O.W (End of the Week) Notable Tip: The 4 Struggles of an inexperienced Manager
Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week. This week I’ve been discussing employee to manager transitions with clients and the problems they have encountered with the newly appointed yet inexperienced manager. You may have witnessed an employee that has been promoted to a managerial position lose their shine as they demonstrate that theyContinue reading “E.O.W (End of the Week) Notable Tip: The 4 Struggles of an inexperienced Manager”
How to plan a Process Improvement Project
When planning a process improvement project the most important question you have to ask is, “What problem are we trying to solve?” This question relates directly to the first step in DMAIC ( a Lean Six Sigma problem solving tool), which is to define the problem. After you answer this question you are ready toContinue reading “How to plan a Process Improvement Project”
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