Ideas around culture development have slowly grown in prominence with business leaders’ thinking particularly in the last five years. Employee surveys and methodologies for engagement and employee satisfaction have been the hallmark of many Human Resource department activities to increase productivity and profitability. Yet recent Gallop surveys reveal that over 100 million US employees hate their jobs or are emotionally disengaged from their work.
Manufacturing with Heart® explains how to transform your organization into a place of greater satisfaction for employees, customers, and stakeholders. You'll learn how to create a positive, profitable, and productive workplace where everybody wins.
Collaborative Budgeting seeks input from everyone and eliminates the time-wasting negotiations between executives and middle management.
During the course of our history, Abrasive Technology acquired over 15 manufacturing companies worldwide, implementing our processes and our culture each and every time. Manufacturing with Heart, Inc. was formed to share our experience in transforming organizations.
Butch worked closely with Doug and Rebecca as a coach and consultant on leadership development, simplifying business data, organizational structure and employee engagement. Doug was generous enough to answer some questions of ours. Here's what he had to say:
We created a positive, profitable, and productive workplace where everybody wins under the core belief that People Can Be Trusted!
Here's Tanya and Butch recalling a stressful situation at Abrasive Technology and how Heart Culture wins!
All of us have a business culture, whether it's recognized or not. Culture is how we do things. It's how we treat each other. It's what we value. It's what we think of as normal codes of behavior.
Can you believe in creating a manufacturing environment that's successful, efficient, productive, and a place people want to come to work; a place of dignity, learning, respect, and fun? First you have to imagine it.
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