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Driving Performance Outcomes Through Effective Meetings

Understand How Effective Meetings Can Enable Improved Plant Performance

400StockMarketChartsNothing is worse than being in a meeting that completely wastes your time.  Hopefully those meetings have been eliminated as part of the steps to making you, the maintenance professional, more effective.  For the meetings that you could not eliminate, the meetings need to be effective, reducing wasted time and delivering benefits to the business.

To make meetings effective, the meetings should follow the 3 phases of effective meetings.  The 3 phases ensure that meetings are effective, efficient and everyone knows what they are there […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:05-04:00February 29th, 2016|Effective Meetings, Performance Management, Productivity|Comments Off on Driving Performance Outcomes Through Effective Meetings

3 Steps to Reduce the Meetings of a Maintenance Professional

How to Reduce Meeting and Spend More Time on Driving Plant Performance

MeetingAnother great method of becoming overwhelmed with work as a Maintenance Professional is to fill our day full of meetings.  Worse, those meetings usually do not provide any value to you, nor do you have any inputs into the meeting.

We all know the meetings we dread going to, not because they are long, or the people in them, but because we know that it is a complete waste of time and is preventing you from accomplishing important maintenance […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:05-04:00February 22nd, 2016|Productivity|Comments Off on 3 Steps to Reduce the Meetings of a Maintenance Professional

6 Steps a Maintenance Professional Can Do to Reduce Email

Eliminating the Clutter To Focus On The Important Tasks

EmailA common complaint I hear and experience is as a maintenance professional, our inbox has exploded and grow rapidly with all the daily activities in a plant.  All the emails are perceived to be important, but in reality they are mostly urgent, or not important and not urgent.

Take a moment and think about how much time you spend reviewing and answer emails.  Even those emails that do not need a response, need time to review and move or delete.  I am […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:05-04:00February 15th, 2016|Productivity|Comments Off on 6 Steps a Maintenance Professional Can Do to Reduce Email

Becoming More Effective With Your Day

How To Save Time As A Maintenance Professional

EfficientYou are running from one meeting to another, to a breakdown, to the storeroom and at the end of the day you stop and think.  What did I really get done today?  The day was busy, but did you accomplish what you wanted to or will make a difference in the long run?

The organization needs to focus on effective maintenance, and as a maintenance professional you need to be effective with your time.  Only if you are effective with your time, can […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:06-04:00February 8th, 2016|Productivity|Comments Off on Becoming More Effective With Your Day