Great Offices
Processes that Make a Workplace Work
Great offices don't just happen. They are designed and created!
What makes them a terrific place to work? Sure, it takes great people, but the biggest contributing factor is a great manager. Hint hint - that's where you come in.
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Here is a simplified overview
of how to look at your task of creating a great place to work.
TWO key FACTORS
(SYSTEMS & PEOPLE)
that produce a RESULT (TASKS)
Look at it this way --
Systems:
WHAT you do procedurally
People: WHO does it
People: WHO does it
results in
Tasks being accomplished a la ... Productivity
YOU have control over those systems.
YOU can design them and make it a great place to work (GPTW)
Systems Present
A SYSTEM suggests the following
A procedural, documented process that has steps. These steps are repeatable and measurable. By designing it the way you want it to look, the outcome becomes predictable. By making something predictable, it has less error.
See the method to the madness?
Well, no need to have analysis paralysis.
To start, do NOT overdo it. Start simple and build and adjust.
Each system above has (or will have soon) a sequential link to more information - great ideas and "best of"s for that system.
The PEOPLE factor is
Whatever
your product or service is, your business is about people.
You may have the best tools, resources, mechanisms, equipment. You can throw all the money you want into investing in new technology.
NONE OF IT WILL WORK … unless you have the people properly trained and aligned.
A good analogy
Well-composed music, perfect arrangements, world-class instruments.
How predictable will the quality of the sound be?
When the orchestra IS aligned, tuned up, and listening to and interacting with each other, the concert hall sings with attuned vibrations. The result is a swollen wave of intense collusion. Beautiful.
Get your team singing.
Use the systems listed above to start your journey to a harmonized team. Consider each one. Weigh where you are and what you need. Then use the balanced symphony approach (people and systems) to begin your job as their maestro.
You may have the best tools, resources, mechanisms, equipment. You can throw all the money you want into investing in new technology.
NONE OF IT WILL WORK … unless you have the people properly trained and aligned.
A good analogy
Well-composed music, perfect arrangements, world-class instruments.
How predictable will the quality of the sound be?
You
may luck out. It may sound good.
OR
People
show up late to work.
Errors are careless and avoidable.
Lack of commitment causes low morale.
Little creativity in implementing improvements.
No ownership.
Not
everyone’s heart is in it.Errors are careless and avoidable.
Lack of commitment causes low morale.
Little creativity in implementing improvements.
No ownership.
When the orchestra IS aligned, tuned up, and listening to and interacting with each other, the concert hall sings with attuned vibrations. The result is a swollen wave of intense collusion. Beautiful.
Get your team singing.
Use the systems listed above to start your journey to a harmonized team. Consider each one. Weigh where you are and what you need. Then use the balanced symphony approach (people and systems) to begin your job as their maestro.
YOU
... as conductor
