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Host an Office Paper Shredding Day
We are coming up to the end of the year and the time when many of us look to clean out the clutter in the office. It may be just to fill the time during the slow holiday week but it can also be an opportunity to practice good document retention practices. Most offices have a retention policy for official company records, i.e. tax returns, employee files and bank statements. These documents are carefully filed and stored neatly in boxes in a storage area or at an offsite storage facility. Each box is labeled with the owner and the year of the document. Every year a shredding service comes in and shreds the outdated records.<

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if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity a

Data Mining Models - Tom's Ten Data Tips
What is a model? A model is a purposeful simplification of reality. Models can take on many forms. A built-to-scale look alike, a mathematical equation, a spreadsheet, or a person, a scene, and many other forms. In all cases, the model uses only part of reality, that’s why it’s a simplification. And in all cases, the way one reduces the complexity of real life, is chosen with a purpose. The purpose is to focus on particular characteristics, at the expense of losing extraneous detail.If you ask my son, Carmen Elektra is the ultimate model. She replaces an image of women in genera

Let's start with our reminder of... "What is an improvement cycle?"

Make Continuous Improvement One Of Your Goals - As Soon As You Possibly Can (ID: 74077)

What Is An Improvement Cycle?

"Everything we do is a process, every process has a customer"

The Improvement Cycle is a highly disciplined and rigorous approach to problem solving using the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) methodology developed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

The Improvement Cycle consists of seven steps, 3 in the Plan phase, 1 in the Do phase, 1 in the Check phase, and 2 in the Act phase.

The PDCA cycle needs to be used in a continuous manner, select your theme or project, assess the current situation, plan and implement your solutions, check the effects of your changes, standardise on your new improved process, and plan for future improvements – the cycle continues.

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Although a certain amount of value and benefit may be derived from implementing part of the PDCA improvement process, a far greater benefit will be achieved by sticking to the process and following all 4 phases as best you can. this is especially important when involving internal and/or external team members.

Apart from getting the chance to read the main article (ID: 74077), I hope you have also read and understood the importance of the PLAN and DO phases

"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase (ID: 76694)"
"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The DO Phase (ID: 78506)"

- If you missed them, please take the time to read them first, then come back.

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We have a PLAN and trust it

we implement the plan (DO)

we CHECK whether its working or not

if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity as

Merger and Acquisition Advice
With increased mergers and acquisitions, changes in Phone Company billing systems, telecom costs are on the rise. Take a closer look at your telecommunication bills. There are many ways that your bills have hidden charges applied, not to mention telecom contracts that were signed without Management approval. It’s time for Management & their Accounts Payable Department to be on the alert for errors, over-billings, and tariff violations.If more than one person within an organization places orders then overlapping occurs. Mike requested Sally order phone lines for a new call center, Hal heard the request and placed the order as

Deming.

The Improvement Cycle consists of seven steps, 3 in the Plan phase, 1 in the Do phase, 1 in the Check phase, and 2 in the Act phase.

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Apart from getting the chance to read the main article (ID: 74077), I hope you have also read and understood the importance of the PLAN and DO phases

"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase (ID: 76694)"
"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The DO Phase (ID: 78506)"

- If you missed them, please take the time to read them first, then come back.

---END SIDEBAR---

We have a PLAN and trust it

we implement the plan (DO)

we CHECK whether its working or not

if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity a

Passive Income Explained - Why Do We Need A Passive Income?
Would you like to go for a holiday without worrying about your work? Are you struggling with increasing utilities bills? Are you afraid of being retrenched? Do you own a life time of debts up to your neck? Is shortage of money driving your family apart? Is money a problem to you? Do you have insufficient time to spend with your family? Do you need to work long hours? If you answer yes to any of the questions, you would want to have a Passive Income.Money is always the No. 1 reason for social unrest, family break-ups, relationship problems etc. How many times have we read in newspaper that family fought in court over mone

tinues.

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Apart from getting the chance to read the main article (ID: 74077), I hope you have also read and understood the importance of the PLAN and DO phases

"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase (ID: 76694)"
"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The DO Phase (ID: 78506)"

- If you missed them, please take the time to read them first, then come back.

---END SIDEBAR---

We have a PLAN and trust it

we implement the plan (DO)

we CHECK whether its working or not

if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity a

Communication Skills - Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
In using our communication skills and abilities how we say something is just as important as what we say. Body language plays an extremely important part of our communication. In fact studies have been done showing that when we interact in a communication process the receiver actually receives 7% of the message verbally. The other 93% is received based on the non-verbal aspects of the message.How we dress, our gestures, facial expressions, posture and body movements are also being received when we verbally communicate with someone. That is why it is very important that our actions and non-verbal signals match what we are saying.

so read and understood the importance of the PLAN and DO phases

"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase (ID: 76694)"
"Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The DO Phase (ID: 78506)"

- If you missed them, please take the time to read them first, then come back.

---END SIDEBAR---

We have a PLAN and trust it

we implement the plan (DO)

we CHECK whether its working or not

if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity a

5 Easy Ways to Make Your International Registrants Feel Welcome
Unless you're escaping winter weather or otherwise simply escaping, holiday travel isn't generally a topic of choice. Images of crowded airports, long lines, security searches, screaming children, exasperated parents and bad food quickly come to mind. And really, unless you're soaring on good spirits because you're heading off on your Caribbean vacation, most travel is the same. Being as fun as it is, all of the little things that you can do to make attending your event easier are going to be appreciated by your International participants.A good way to make an early impression on International participants is to design an online

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if not, we fix it (ACT)

if it's working, we standardise on improvement (ACT)

Are you ready to check your results?

What is it that makes PDCA get its results?

For me the answer to that is twofold...

As a problem solving/decision making process it is as powerful helping individuals, groups or whole organizations minimize the risk in starting a new project or opportunity as it is in identifying root cause problems and facilitating the means by which we can fix them.

Secondly, where progress meetings or even plans themselves come to a standstill because of supposition, conjecture and even emotion (not to be confused with passion which is a totally different animal altogether), PDCA gives us the focus and the discipline through the CHECKING phase to analyse the data and base future decisions and actions based on that data.

Ask yourself, will I know, for definite, what the root cause of my success or lack of success actually is?

If You (and your team) developed the plan of action, if you implemented that plan, if you gathered data over the agreed period of time against each of the measures that were set, then you are now ready to check what has happened and why it has happened.

After an agreed amount of time, check the data you have been gathering, what results did you achieve, are you getting the desired results?

N.B. Always check like with like, comparing your original data with new data gathered after you implemented the changes.

STEP 5 Study Your Results

Monitor progress as defined in your plan

- Are you following your plan? If not, why not?
- Are you gathering data against your performance measures?
- Are results being communicated effectively?
- Is each change being documented?
- Do you know exactly why you're getting what you're getting?

Gather and analyze more data if necessary

What are your measures telling you?

Are you on track or not? Would you know?

Are you getting the results you wanted?

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