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Creating Great Places To Work! Website Speaking Assessments Shop Contact How to Capture Thousands of Employee Ideas & Suggestions June 4 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. EST 5:00 pm IST 45 minutes Register Now https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_af2VMfNkR0iq7yc5xQp9og I was asked to put on a repeat webinar for the Indian National Suggestion Scheme Association.  In these changing times, businesses need to be looking for ways to cut costs and improve performance. Capturing ideas and suggestions from employees should become a top priority -- especially in this economy. Getting employees involved not only yields valuable ideas and suggestions, but also engages and improves employee motivation, creating a more productive and satisfying work environment. Yet many ignore the untapped resource of their employees who know their jobs better than any expert.   Fact #1: Just 41% of employees think their senior management supports new ideas and new ways of doing things. Fact #2: Just 37% of employees think senior management tries to be visible and accessible to employees.  Fact #3: A whopping 60% of employees think their organization's employee suggestion program does not exist or is ineffective.   During the past 30 years, I have worked with hundreds of organizations in designing employee suggestion and engagement programs. As a Board Member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, I had the opportunity to examine and evaluate how leading organizations use their Employee Suggestion Systems (ESS) to produce results. I trained managers at Yamaha and learned how they drive continuous improvement with their Kaizen process. My experiences have taught me what works and what does not.  We will focus on two programs. The first one is called the Bright Idea Campaign and the other is a more formalized Idea Management system called MyeNovation which includes an online tracking system. Watch Youtube video.  https://youtu.be/yCs1Y7ohzS0 Discover how to create employee suggestion systems such as Idea Campaigns, Idea Olympics, Idea-A-Day, Kaizen, STAT VA and Vampire Extermination Expeditions, just to name a few. The results of these programs can increase revenues, cut costs, improve customer satisfaction and have a major impact on job satisfaction and motivation. For more information: https://www.chartcourse.com/bright-ideas-employee-suggestion-program/ To register for the free webinar, click on this link:  Register Now Set Boundaries To Protect Your Work Time Attending meetings that regularly run over or being inundated with requests of your time by your employees can lead to frustration. What’s more, all this can cause you to miss out on valuable time at home with your family when you’re having to play catch up. Here are some ways you can set boundaries within your workplace to protect your time. 1. Meeting Availability The first and most important boundary to set is your meeting availability. This might take some adjusting if everyone is used to you always making yourself available for meetings. Block out certain parts of your daily schedule that you dedicate to meeting times. Create your meeting schedule around what best suits your daily personal schedule such as around commute times or if you need to pick children up from school. There are times when you can’t reschedule a meeting to happen during your meeting times. At this point, you’ll need to determine if calling out of the meeting will benefit you in the long run and increase your overall workplace benefits, such as if a meeting will cause you to lose sleep. 2. Set Boundaries About Meeting Length Meetings that regularly run over schedule can cost you in the long run. For example, just a few meetings every week that run over by just 15 minutes can cost you an hour of your workweek. There are a few things you can do to set some boundaries to keep meetings on schedule. First, if these are meetings that you run, send out a calendar invite with the exact meeting times and a prefilled agenda for what you’ll be discussing. Secondly, book your meetings close together so that you’ll have a reason to end a meeting on time. Lastly, the best thing you can do is start the meeting with your time expectation, such as telling everyone that you need to end the meeting by a certain time. 3. Keep Your Time At Work Focused One of the best things you can do for time management is to keep yourself focused an on-task at work. This day and age, there are many distractions that can get you off course and have to make up for it later. A good strategy is to use a block schedule. A block schedule means your group tasks together. For example, a block of time is set apart for all your meetings and then the next block of time is set aside for checking and replying to emails. This keeps your brain more focused versus jumping around from task to task. If you’re able to, physically close your door during times you need to quietly work. Also, make sure to turn off your phone or put it somewhere where you won’t be distracted by personal texts or social media. ~ Written for us by our associate Gary Sorrell, Sorrell Associates, LLC. Copyright protected. All rights reserved. How Meditation Can Help You Become A Better Leader Becoming a better leader stems from many daily practices. Mediation may not even be on your radar when it comes to finding ways to be a better leader. However, making this a part of your daily routine can change your day completely. Here are ways that meditation can help you: 1. Objectively Tackle Daily Task Meditation is a mindful discipline that can do wonders for not only your personal life but for the leadership aspect of your life as well. Pride is one factor at the root of failed relationships and poor management and with the lack of quality leadership, these days meditation is a technique worth trying. When one stops to quiet their mind and breathe deeply they are able to silence many of the thoughts that tend to create conflict. Even a short ten to twenty-minute meditation session can help to refocus the mind, reevaluate an email, a tough phone call, and reply without “self” involved. When you practice stillness you can virtually remove thoughts that contribute to defensive behavior and think more clearly. 2. Build Deeper Connections Over time it has been noted that meditation allows a person to feel more empathy and better connect with their employees. People who practice meditation regularly learn to release fear and can then connect better and approach and confront employees they find “difficult”. This approach is not only for the workplace but can be used in other forms of leadership. Parenting is a great place to practice these techniques especially during the teen years or if you are a caregiver for someone with special needs or mental illness. Take some quiet time to breathe in and out, listening to the breaths, then reevaluate how to respond. Acting out of emotion instead of logic just because we could not take time to meditate can cause long-term relationship hardships. 3. Still Your Mind Our minds on average have 70,000 thoughts that run through our minds on any given day. The goal with meditation is to release those thoughts, release the ego, the pride, the thoughts that hold us back. Find a quiet place with a chair and set your timer for anywhere between five and twenty-five minutes. Count to one in your head while you take your first breath in and then breathe out on two. Repeat this process all the way to 10 and start over. With every breath release the thoughts, let go of the anxiousness and notice how this helps during your decision-making throughout the day. 4. Practice Regularly and Extend Your Practice Over Time Start out with five minutes and slowly work your way up to ten or fifteen. If all you have is five minutes then just make sure to meditate for five minutes daily. Start with your consistency and then work on extending your meditation time. ~ Written for us by our associate Gary Sorrell, Sorrell Associates, LLC. Copyright protected. All rights reserved. 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