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Upcoming Events
Join us July 12th for our Personal Excellence Workshop to be held in Seattle WA. Come prepared to look at what is important in your life and learn how you can organize personal and business tasks to help you achieve excellence.
The workshop with help you to:
The class presents in two parts, a) learn the basics of personal excellence and b) how to leverage Microsoft Outlook using Ceptara's Organizer [5] for Outlook Add-in to implement your new personal excellence system.
Find more information on the Personal Excellence Workshop here [6].
Register [7] for the event by June 30th to take advantage of our early bird pricing, only $200 for 6 hours of focused instruction on what matters most to you.
Creating an Effective Meeting Agenda
Meetings are supposed to be held with a specific purpose. Whether it's to brainstorm for ideas, assign tasks, or inform the group, there's a goal to achieve. For the most part, an agenda can be used to help you do just that. Use these RACI guidelines [8] to help create an effective agenda.
Using Corrective Action to Make Matters Worse by not Considering Variation
Often management will want to take corrective action to solve problems but before they implement the change they fail to consider variation making the outcome ineffective or counterproductive. Commitment by management is key. Find the entire article located at the bottom of this link [9].
Standardizing Personal Processes
At the heart of any continuos improvement project is standardization. Daily proceses that leaders often overlook can vary each time it is preformed therefore quality may suffer, lead times are erratic and productivity may be constrained. Use the tips found here [10] to develop a standard work process at your organization.
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Chris Lindstrom
Managing Partner
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