Darren Lee announced on Twitter that he is moving from Australia to San Francisco to attend the SUPCONF Spring 2017 conference. He tagged his location as Intercom in the tweet.
This document provides 3 mockups for a further back cover digipak design. Mockups 1, 2, and 3 offer different visual concepts for the back cover of a digipak package without providing details on the actual designs or content within the mockups.
Josh Magsam: Let's Stay in Touch -- A Low-Key Approach to Maintaining Your Pr...Support Driven
Maintaining professional connections takes effort but doesn't need to be stressful. The author recommends a low-key approach of sending occasional messages to update contacts on your current work and life, and asking how they are doing in return. Keeping in touch in this casual way helps strengthen your network over time with minimal effort on your part.
Grace Antonio: Why You Shouldn't Always Hire For Culture FitSupport Driven
Hiring for only "culture fit" can limit diversity and innovation. While company culture is important, focusing solely on how well a candidate's personality matches your current team can exclude qualified candidates from various backgrounds. Hiring managers should evaluate both a candidate's qualifications and potential cultural fit, and recognize that different types of people can strengthen culture in different ways.
Petya Sotirova: Customer-Centric or Product Culture -- Can You Have Both?Support Driven
Many companies focus either on customers or products, but not both. However, it is possible for companies to have a customer-centric culture while also prioritizing product development. With the right leadership and processes, companies can gather deep customer insights to drive product innovation and deliver exceptional customer experiences through their products.
Yvette Johns: Leading Through Change: What Mattered Most When We Asked a Team...Support Driven
A team at MailChimp was asked to change their work hours from a traditional 9-5 schedule to flexible hours. When surveyed about the change, employees reported that clear communication from leadership and maintaining a good company culture were most important. Having leadership set a good example by being flexible themselves and prioritizing outcomes over face time also helped the team adapt to the new schedule successfully.
Nykki Yeager: Motivate Your Team With Individual Performance MetricsSupport Driven
Motivate Your Team with Individual Performance Metrics discusses how to motivate employees by tracking individual performance metrics. Tracking metrics like tasks completed, projects delivered on time, or customer satisfaction scores allows managers to provide feedback and recognition to top performers. Focusing on individual accomplishments in addition to team goals can boost employee engagement and productivity.
Andra Roston: Thrown In the Deep End: What I've Learned in My First Few Month...Support Driven
Being thrown into a management role without experience or training can be overwhelming but provides valuable learning opportunities. The author shares lessons learned in her first few months as a new manager, including focusing on developing relationships with her team, learning to delegate tasks, and gaining confidence in her abilities as a leader.
Karen Arnold and Samantha Hare: Multilingual Support: How We Expanded From En...Support Driven
Automattic expanded their support for multiple languages beyond just English. They went from only supporting English to now supporting over 6 different languages on their site. The document discusses how Automattic was able to expand their language support across more languages.
This document provides 3 mockups for a further back cover digipak design. Mockups 1, 2, and 3 offer different visual concepts for the back cover of a digipak package without providing details on the actual designs or content within the mockups.
Josh Magsam: Let's Stay in Touch -- A Low-Key Approach to Maintaining Your Pr...Support Driven
Maintaining professional connections takes effort but doesn't need to be stressful. The author recommends a low-key approach of sending occasional messages to update contacts on your current work and life, and asking how they are doing in return. Keeping in touch in this casual way helps strengthen your network over time with minimal effort on your part.
Grace Antonio: Why You Shouldn't Always Hire For Culture FitSupport Driven
Hiring for only "culture fit" can limit diversity and innovation. While company culture is important, focusing solely on how well a candidate's personality matches your current team can exclude qualified candidates from various backgrounds. Hiring managers should evaluate both a candidate's qualifications and potential cultural fit, and recognize that different types of people can strengthen culture in different ways.
Petya Sotirova: Customer-Centric or Product Culture -- Can You Have Both?Support Driven
Many companies focus either on customers or products, but not both. However, it is possible for companies to have a customer-centric culture while also prioritizing product development. With the right leadership and processes, companies can gather deep customer insights to drive product innovation and deliver exceptional customer experiences through their products.
Yvette Johns: Leading Through Change: What Mattered Most When We Asked a Team...Support Driven
A team at MailChimp was asked to change their work hours from a traditional 9-5 schedule to flexible hours. When surveyed about the change, employees reported that clear communication from leadership and maintaining a good company culture were most important. Having leadership set a good example by being flexible themselves and prioritizing outcomes over face time also helped the team adapt to the new schedule successfully.
Nykki Yeager: Motivate Your Team With Individual Performance MetricsSupport Driven
Motivate Your Team with Individual Performance Metrics discusses how to motivate employees by tracking individual performance metrics. Tracking metrics like tasks completed, projects delivered on time, or customer satisfaction scores allows managers to provide feedback and recognition to top performers. Focusing on individual accomplishments in addition to team goals can boost employee engagement and productivity.
Andra Roston: Thrown In the Deep End: What I've Learned in My First Few Month...Support Driven
Being thrown into a management role without experience or training can be overwhelming but provides valuable learning opportunities. The author shares lessons learned in her first few months as a new manager, including focusing on developing relationships with her team, learning to delegate tasks, and gaining confidence in her abilities as a leader.
Karen Arnold and Samantha Hare: Multilingual Support: How We Expanded From En...Support Driven
Automattic expanded their support for multiple languages beyond just English. They went from only supporting English to now supporting over 6 different languages on their site. The document discusses how Automattic was able to expand their language support across more languages.
Louise Draper: Measure the Success of Your Self-Service OfferingsSupport Driven
Self-service offerings allow customers to help themselves, but companies need to measure how well these offerings are working. Key metrics to track include the percentage of issues resolved through self-service, customer satisfaction scores for the self-service experience, and how much self-service reduces calls to support agents. Tracking these metrics will help companies understand if their self-service offerings are truly helping customers and reducing support costs.
Andrea Silas: Forecasting For Support Coverage: Growing is Never Linear!Support Driven
This document discusses forecasting support needs for growing companies. It notes that as companies expand, their support requirements do not always increase in a linear, predictable fashion. Additional support staff or resources may be suddenly needed as usage or customer needs change unexpectedly.
Kimberly Bringas: My Teammate Is Just Meh: A Manager's Guide To Legally and H...Support Driven
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Cameron Dunn: Operations Is For Everybody: Creating and Maintaining Resources...Support Driven
Operations is for Everybody discusses how operations teams create and maintain resources that the whole company uses. It argues that operations work benefits all teams, so operations teams should involve others to get feedback and buy-in on priorities. Operations teams that collaborate this way can better support the whole company's goals.
Hilary Dudek: We Are More Than Just Robots: How Emotional Intelligence Helps ...Support Driven
Emotional intelligence helps you better support your support team. Having empathy for others allows you to understand their perspectives and needs. Practicing emotional intelligence creates a more positive work environment where people feel heard and cared for.
Taylor Davis: Building the Ideal CX Dashboard. (Through Mostly Trial and Error).Support Driven
Building an ideal customer experience dashboard requires trial and error to determine the right metrics and data visualizations. The author details their process of experimenting with different metrics and visualizations to create a dashboard that provides valuable insights into the customer journey and experience. An effective CX dashboard should synthesize data across teams to identify opportunities and drive improvements through a shared understanding of customer needs.
Just Say Yes -- Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone and Build Strong Relationships W...Support Driven
Getting out of your comfort zone and saying yes to new opportunities can help you build strong relationships with your peers. By attending events you may not normally go to and volunteering for projects you aren't required to do, you show colleagues you are willing to get involved and help others. Forming these connections through shared experiences makes you a more valuable member of any team and opens the door to future career opportunities.
Forecasting For Support Coverage: Growing Is Never Linear! by Andrea SilasSupport Driven
Forecasting growth is challenging as it is rarely linear. Andrea Silas from DreamHost gave a talk at the 2019 SD Leadership Summit on how to provide support for forecasting. She emphasized that organizations need to account for non-linear growth when planning support coverage.
Growth Rubrics and How To Make 'Em worksheetsSupport Driven
This document provides a growth rubric worksheet to evaluate communication skills. It includes categories for evaluation, qualities and skills for each category, instructions for prioritizing them, getting feedback, and having agents self-evaluate. The document provides a sample communication category rubric with 4 levels and increasing skills, from asking clarifying questions to generating needed information and clear communication. It also includes a sample "Solves Tickets Efficiently" category and a point scale for determining overall evaluation level.
Growth Rubrics and How To Make 'Em by Danna SampsonSupport Driven
The document discusses how to create growth rubrics for evaluating employees. It provides examples of categories and levels that could be used in a rubric for customer support agents. The categories include bugs, solving tickets efficiently, communication, and being informative. For each category, it lists different levels of performance criteria. It then guides how to collaboratively create rubrics, such as brainstorming categories, filling in requirements, and prioritizing them. The final part discusses giving agents self-evaluations using the rubric.
Tech Stacks In A Successful Contact Center by Ramon IcasianoSupport Driven
This document discusses technology stacks used in successful contact centers. It was presented at the SD Expo Americas 2019 conference by Ramon Icasiano of Stella Connect. The document focuses on the importance of integrating different technologies to power modern contact centers and provide excellent customer experiences.
Turn Feedback Into Action: A Method for Scoping Support Issues by Brian LevineSupport Driven
1. The document provides a method for support teams to scope issues by developing a priority matrix with two dimensions: Impact and Severity.
2. Impact refers to how many users are affected, while Severity refers to how the product/service is affected. Different levels such as small, medium, large are defined for each.
3. For business-to-business companies, two additional dimensions are recommended: Customer Value and Customer Severity. Customer Value refers to how important a customer is to the business, while Customer Severity refers to how a problem affects a specific customer's product/service.
Stories about numbers; driving business-wide understanding about data through...Support Driven
This document discusses using narrative to effectively communicate data and information within an organization. It introduces the five elements of a data narrative: characters, setting/context, plot, conflict/resolution, and theme. For each element, it provides a brief explanation of how to incorporate that element when telling a data narrative. The overall message is that applying these narrative elements can help non-technical audiences better understand and remember insights from data.
1) The document discusses how to scale customer care as a company grows. It emphasizes interacting with customers before product-market fit, creating processes during product-market fit, and automating and measuring during scaling.
2) Key points include interacting as much as possible with customers before product-market fit, preparing recruitment and onboarding processes during product-market fit, and automating and measuring during scaling.
3) The document also provides examples of responding to customer emails by apologizing, investigating issues, making changes or refunds requested, and wishing the customer a good day.
Handout from Jenny Dempsey's workshop, "Supporting Your Support Team Starts with You."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Leadership Skills in Non-Leadership Roles by Dennis PadiernosSupport Driven
The document discusses leadership skills that can be developed even in non-leadership roles. It argues that leadership skills are actionable and can be improved through practice, unlike inherent traits. Some key leadership skills mentioned include decisiveness, relationship building, problem-solving, communication, and awareness. The document provides examples of demonstrating these skills in team situations, such as handling a mistake made by a teammate, teaching a teammate who needs additional help, and taking charge during an outage when the team lead is absent. It concludes by providing additional resources on leadership skills and traits.
Discover the secret formula to building, scaling, and managing a remote suppo...Support Driven
The document provides guidance on building, scaling, and managing a remote support team. It discusses hiring remote agents out of necessity initially. As the team grew, the author standardized training and implemented a robust knowledge base. Metrics such as tickets created/solved per agent and intuition index were tracked. The author hired a dedicated trainer and created standard operating procedures. Forecasting was used to determine future hiring needs based on ticket volume and agent productivity. Creating new roles like a training manager helped scale the remote support organization effectively.
Get your "Sheet" together! -- Incident Comms Plan WorksheetSupport Driven
Incident Communications worksheet from Jake Bartlett's workshop, "Creating an Incident Communications Plan."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Top 5 Incident Communication Tips by Jake BartlettSupport Driven
Postcard with Incident Communications tips from Jake Bartlett's workshop, "Creating an Incident Communications Plan."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Small Business Management An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook 8th edition by Byrd tes...ssuserf63bd7
Small Business Management An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook 8th edition by Byrd test bank.docx
https://qidiantiku.com/test-bank-for-small-business-management-an-entrepreneurs-guidebook-8th-edition-by-mary-jane-byrd.shtml
Louise Draper: Measure the Success of Your Self-Service OfferingsSupport Driven
Self-service offerings allow customers to help themselves, but companies need to measure how well these offerings are working. Key metrics to track include the percentage of issues resolved through self-service, customer satisfaction scores for the self-service experience, and how much self-service reduces calls to support agents. Tracking these metrics will help companies understand if their self-service offerings are truly helping customers and reducing support costs.
Andrea Silas: Forecasting For Support Coverage: Growing is Never Linear!Support Driven
This document discusses forecasting support needs for growing companies. It notes that as companies expand, their support requirements do not always increase in a linear, predictable fashion. Additional support staff or resources may be suddenly needed as usage or customer needs change unexpectedly.
Kimberly Bringas: My Teammate Is Just Meh: A Manager's Guide To Legally and H...Support Driven
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Cameron Dunn: Operations Is For Everybody: Creating and Maintaining Resources...Support Driven
Operations is for Everybody discusses how operations teams create and maintain resources that the whole company uses. It argues that operations work benefits all teams, so operations teams should involve others to get feedback and buy-in on priorities. Operations teams that collaborate this way can better support the whole company's goals.
Hilary Dudek: We Are More Than Just Robots: How Emotional Intelligence Helps ...Support Driven
Emotional intelligence helps you better support your support team. Having empathy for others allows you to understand their perspectives and needs. Practicing emotional intelligence creates a more positive work environment where people feel heard and cared for.
Taylor Davis: Building the Ideal CX Dashboard. (Through Mostly Trial and Error).Support Driven
Building an ideal customer experience dashboard requires trial and error to determine the right metrics and data visualizations. The author details their process of experimenting with different metrics and visualizations to create a dashboard that provides valuable insights into the customer journey and experience. An effective CX dashboard should synthesize data across teams to identify opportunities and drive improvements through a shared understanding of customer needs.
Just Say Yes -- Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone and Build Strong Relationships W...Support Driven
Getting out of your comfort zone and saying yes to new opportunities can help you build strong relationships with your peers. By attending events you may not normally go to and volunteering for projects you aren't required to do, you show colleagues you are willing to get involved and help others. Forming these connections through shared experiences makes you a more valuable member of any team and opens the door to future career opportunities.
Forecasting For Support Coverage: Growing Is Never Linear! by Andrea SilasSupport Driven
Forecasting growth is challenging as it is rarely linear. Andrea Silas from DreamHost gave a talk at the 2019 SD Leadership Summit on how to provide support for forecasting. She emphasized that organizations need to account for non-linear growth when planning support coverage.
Growth Rubrics and How To Make 'Em worksheetsSupport Driven
This document provides a growth rubric worksheet to evaluate communication skills. It includes categories for evaluation, qualities and skills for each category, instructions for prioritizing them, getting feedback, and having agents self-evaluate. The document provides a sample communication category rubric with 4 levels and increasing skills, from asking clarifying questions to generating needed information and clear communication. It also includes a sample "Solves Tickets Efficiently" category and a point scale for determining overall evaluation level.
Growth Rubrics and How To Make 'Em by Danna SampsonSupport Driven
The document discusses how to create growth rubrics for evaluating employees. It provides examples of categories and levels that could be used in a rubric for customer support agents. The categories include bugs, solving tickets efficiently, communication, and being informative. For each category, it lists different levels of performance criteria. It then guides how to collaboratively create rubrics, such as brainstorming categories, filling in requirements, and prioritizing them. The final part discusses giving agents self-evaluations using the rubric.
Tech Stacks In A Successful Contact Center by Ramon IcasianoSupport Driven
This document discusses technology stacks used in successful contact centers. It was presented at the SD Expo Americas 2019 conference by Ramon Icasiano of Stella Connect. The document focuses on the importance of integrating different technologies to power modern contact centers and provide excellent customer experiences.
Turn Feedback Into Action: A Method for Scoping Support Issues by Brian LevineSupport Driven
1. The document provides a method for support teams to scope issues by developing a priority matrix with two dimensions: Impact and Severity.
2. Impact refers to how many users are affected, while Severity refers to how the product/service is affected. Different levels such as small, medium, large are defined for each.
3. For business-to-business companies, two additional dimensions are recommended: Customer Value and Customer Severity. Customer Value refers to how important a customer is to the business, while Customer Severity refers to how a problem affects a specific customer's product/service.
Stories about numbers; driving business-wide understanding about data through...Support Driven
This document discusses using narrative to effectively communicate data and information within an organization. It introduces the five elements of a data narrative: characters, setting/context, plot, conflict/resolution, and theme. For each element, it provides a brief explanation of how to incorporate that element when telling a data narrative. The overall message is that applying these narrative elements can help non-technical audiences better understand and remember insights from data.
1) The document discusses how to scale customer care as a company grows. It emphasizes interacting with customers before product-market fit, creating processes during product-market fit, and automating and measuring during scaling.
2) Key points include interacting as much as possible with customers before product-market fit, preparing recruitment and onboarding processes during product-market fit, and automating and measuring during scaling.
3) The document also provides examples of responding to customer emails by apologizing, investigating issues, making changes or refunds requested, and wishing the customer a good day.
Handout from Jenny Dempsey's workshop, "Supporting Your Support Team Starts with You."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Leadership Skills in Non-Leadership Roles by Dennis PadiernosSupport Driven
The document discusses leadership skills that can be developed even in non-leadership roles. It argues that leadership skills are actionable and can be improved through practice, unlike inherent traits. Some key leadership skills mentioned include decisiveness, relationship building, problem-solving, communication, and awareness. The document provides examples of demonstrating these skills in team situations, such as handling a mistake made by a teammate, teaching a teammate who needs additional help, and taking charge during an outage when the team lead is absent. It concludes by providing additional resources on leadership skills and traits.
Discover the secret formula to building, scaling, and managing a remote suppo...Support Driven
The document provides guidance on building, scaling, and managing a remote support team. It discusses hiring remote agents out of necessity initially. As the team grew, the author standardized training and implemented a robust knowledge base. Metrics such as tickets created/solved per agent and intuition index were tracked. The author hired a dedicated trainer and created standard operating procedures. Forecasting was used to determine future hiring needs based on ticket volume and agent productivity. Creating new roles like a training manager helped scale the remote support organization effectively.
Get your "Sheet" together! -- Incident Comms Plan WorksheetSupport Driven
Incident Communications worksheet from Jake Bartlett's workshop, "Creating an Incident Communications Plan."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Top 5 Incident Communication Tips by Jake BartlettSupport Driven
Postcard with Incident Communications tips from Jake Bartlett's workshop, "Creating an Incident Communications Plan."
Presented at Support Driven Expo in Portland, Oregon, July 2019.
Small Business Management An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook 8th edition by Byrd tes...ssuserf63bd7
Small Business Management An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook 8th edition by Byrd test bank.docx
https://qidiantiku.com/test-bank-for-small-business-management-an-entrepreneurs-guidebook-8th-edition-by-mary-jane-byrd.shtml
Neal Elbaum Shares Top 5 Trends Shaping the Logistics Industry in 2024Neal Elbaum
In the ever-evolving world of logistics, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Industry expert Neal Elbaum highlights the top five trends shaping the logistics industry in 2024, offering valuable insights into the future of supply chain management.
m249-saw PMI To familiarize the soldier with the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon ...LinghuaKong2
M249 Saw marksman PMIThe Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), or 5.56mm M249 is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change barrel feature. The M249 engages point targets out to 800 meters, firing the improved NATO standard 5.56mm cartridge.The SAW forms the basis of firepower for the fire team. The gunner has the option of using 30-round M16 magazines or linked ammunition from pre-loaded 200-round plastic magazines. The gunner's basic load is 600 rounds of linked ammunition.The SAW was developed through an initially Army-led research and development effort and eventually a Joint NDO program in the late 1970s/early 1980s to restore sustained and accurate automatic weapons fire to the fire team and squad. When actually fielded in the mid-1980s, the SAW was issued as a one-for-one replacement for the designated "automatic rifle" (M16A1) in the Fire Team. In this regard, the SAW filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable "base of fire" weapons.
Early in the SAW's fielding, the Army identified the need for a Product Improvement Program (PIP) to enhance the weapon. This effort resulted in a "PIP kit" which modifies the barrel, handguard, stock, pistol grip, buffer, and sights.
The M249 machine gun is an ideal complementary weapon system for the infantry squad platoon. It is light enough to be carried and operated by one man, and can be fired from the hip in an assault, even when loaded with a 200-round ammunition box. The barrel change facility ensures that it can continue to fire for long periods. The US Army has conducted strenuous trials on the M249 MG, showing that this weapon has a reliability factor that is well above that of most other small arms weapon systems. Today, the US Army and Marine Corps utilize the license-produced M249 SAW.
Designing and Sustaining Large-Scale Value-Centered Agile Ecosystems (powered...Alexey Krivitsky
Is Agile dead? It depends on what you mean by 'Agile'. If you mean that the organizations are not getting the promised benefits because they were focusing too much on the team-level agile "ways of working" instead of systemic global improvements -- then we are in agreement. It is a misunderstanding of Agility that led us down a dead-end. At Org Topologies, we see bright sparks -- the signs of the 'second wave of Agile' as we call it. The emphasis is shifting towards both in-team and inter-team collaboration. Away from false dichotomies. Both: team autonomy and shared broad product ownership are required to sustain true result-oriented organizational agility. Org Topologies is a package offering a visual language plus thinking tools required to communicate org development direction and can be used to help design and then sustain org change aiming at higher organizational archetypes.
A comprehensive-study-of-biparjoy-cyclone-disaster-management-in-gujarat-a-ca...Samirsinh Parmar
Disaster management;
Cyclone Disaster Management;;
Biparjoy Cyclone Case Study;
Meteorological Observations;
Best practices in Disaster Management;
Synchronization of Agencies;
GSDMA in Cyclone disaster Management;
History of Cyclone in Arabian ocean;
Intensity of Cyclone in Gujarat;
Cyclone preparedness;
Miscellaneous observations - Biparjoy cyclone;
Role of social Media in Disaster Management;
Unique features of Biparjoy cyclone;
Role of IMD in Biparjoy Prediction;
Lessons Learned; Disaster Preparedness; published paper;
Case study; for disaster management agencies; for guideline to manage cyclone disaster; cyclone management; cyclone risks; rescue and rehabilitation for cyclone; timely evacuation during cyclone; port closure; tourism closure etc.
Many companies have perceived CRM that accompanied by numerous
uncoordinated initiatives as a technological solution for problems in
individual areas. However, CRM should be considered as a strategy when
a company decides to implement it due to its humanitarian, technological
and process-related effects (Mendoza et al., 2007, p. 913). CRM is
evolving today as it should be seen as a strategy for maintaining a longterm relationship with customers.
A CRM business strategy includes the internet with the marketing,
sales, operations, customer services, human resources, R&D, finance, and
information technology departments to achieve the company’s purpose and
maximize the profitability of customer interactions (Chen and Popovich,
2003, p. 673).
After Corona Virus Disease-2019/Covid-19 (Coronavirus) first
appeared in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019, its effects began to
be felt clearly all over the world. If the Coronavirus crisis is not managed
properly in business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer
(B2C) sectors, it can have serious negative consequences. In this crisis,
companies can typically face significant losses in their sales performance,
existing customers and customer satisfaction, interruptions in operations
and accordingly bankruptcy
From Concept to reality : Implementing Lean Managements DMAIC Methodology for...Rokibul Hasan
The Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry in Bangladesh is a cornerstone of the economy, but increasing costs and stagnant productivity pose significant challenges to profitability. This study explores the implementation of Lean Management in the Sampling Section of RMG factories to enhance productivity. Drawing from a comprehensive literature review, theoretical framework, and action research methodology, the study identifies key areas for improvement and proposes solutions.
Through the DMAIC approach (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), the research identifies low productivity as the primary problem in the Sampling Section, with a PPH (Productivity per head) of only 4.0. Using Lean Management techniques such as 5S, Standardized work, PDCA/Kaizen, KANBAN, and Quick Changeover, the study addresses issues such as pre and post Quick Changeover (QCO) time, improper line balancing, and sudden plan changes.
The research employs regression analysis to test hypotheses, revealing a significant correlation between reducing QCO time and increasing productivity. With a regression equation of Y = -0.000501X + 6.72 and an R-squared value of 0.98, the study demonstrates a strong relationship between the independent variables (QCO downtime and improper line balancing downtime) and the dependent variable (productivity per head).
The findings suggest that by implementing Lean Management practices and addressing key productivity inhibitors, RMG factories can achieve substantial improvements in efficiency and profitability. The study provides valuable insights for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers seeking to enhance productivity in the RMG industry and similar manufacturing sectors.
This presentation, "The Morale Killers: 9 Ways Managers Unintentionally Demotivate Employees (and How to Fix It)," is a deep dive into the critical factors that can negatively impact employee morale and engagement. Based on extensive research and real-world experiences, this presentation reveals the nine most common mistakes managers make, often without even realizing it.
The presentation begins by highlighting the alarming statistic that 70% of employees report feeling disengaged at work, underscoring the urgency of addressing this issue. It then delves into each of the nine "morale killers," providing clear explanations and illustrative examples.
1. Ignoring Achievements: The presentation emphasizes the importance of recognizing and rewarding employees' efforts, tailored to their individual preferences.
2. Bad Hiring/Promotions & Broken Promises: It reveals the detrimental effects of poor hiring and promotion decisions, along with the erosion of trust that results from broken promises.
3. Treating Everyone Equally & Tolerating Poor Performance: This section stresses the need for fair treatment while acknowledging that employees have different needs. It also emphasizes the importance of addressing poor performance promptly.
4. Stifling Growth & Lack of Interest: The presentation highlights the importance of providing opportunities for learning and growth, as well as showing genuine care for employees' well-being.
5. Unclear Communication & Micromanaging: It exposes the frustration and resentment caused by vague expectations and excessive control, advocating for clear communication and employee empowerment.
The presentation then shifts its focus to the power of recognition and empowerment, highlighting how a culture of appreciation can fuel engagement and motivation. It provides actionable takeaways for managers, emphasizing the need to stop demotivating behaviors and start actively fostering a positive workplace culture.
The presentation concludes with a strong call to action, encouraging viewers to explore the accompanying blog post, "9 Proven Ways to Crush Employee Morale (and How to Avoid Them)," for a more in-depth analysis and practical solutions.
Maximize Your Efficiency with This Comprehensive Project Management Platform ...SOFTTECHHUB
In today's work environment, staying organized and productive can be a daunting challenge. With multiple tasks, projects, and tools to juggle, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and lose focus. Fortunately, liftOS offers a comprehensive solution to streamline your workflow and boost your productivity. This innovative platform brings together all your essential tools, files, and tasks into a single, centralized workspace, allowing you to work smarter and more efficiently.