Human Resources
Basic Skills: Workplace Management - Standardize Tools and Processes (E)
What is the role of work management in business? How to standardize tools and processes?
Posted: Oct 2009
Workplace Management Routines (3/7): Standardize Tools and Processes
Often personal time is lost “fighting fires” and duplicating effort. To minimize these time wasters, standardize as many tools, models, and processes possible.
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This will keep you from “reinventing the wheel” each time these items are needed.
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Ensure you keep them flexible in order to modify them when necessary.
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Areas to consider standardizing:
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Meeting ground rules, § Problem solving models and forms
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Project request forms, planning tools, worksheets,
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Development and feedback discussions,
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Certain memos and memo formats used on a regular basis,
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Trouble-shooting procedures,
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Customer complaint procedures,
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Weekly/bi-weekly project status reports and project update meetings.
Back to Workplace Management
Workplace Management Routines:
Managing Interruptions
Maintain A Time Management Diary
Utilize A Formal Project Manager Or Scheduling Tool
Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities
Priorities / Benchmarking
Workflow Procedures
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Think “outside the box”
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Blast through creative blocks
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Access knowledge from the subconscious and super-conscious mind
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Release stress and anxiety
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