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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 16 – On-duty Operations Staff Notification of Operational Deficiencies

On-duty operations personnel are responsible for a facility’s safe and reliable operation. To ensure they are capable of meeting this obligation under normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions, operations personnel must be aware of the performance status of the equipment under their control. Therefore, these watchstanders must be immediately notified of deficiencies that currently or will potentially diminish facility performance.

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Leadership Inspiration – Foregoing the Advantage

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.” Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881) Earl of Beaconsfield

The Women’s Economy Starts Here

For the first time in this nation’s history, women are now the majority of the work force and what a force that is. As the number of entrepreneurial women rises, it is clear that this country’s economy can begin to move in the right direction as long as these women begin to be treated equally; […]

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 15 – Condition Report Review Meetings

Effective corrective action programs promptly and consistently screen newly reported issues for their impact on the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. These screenings prioritize and aggregate corrective actions from all business areas with the organization’s strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations; ensuring optimal resource use. Consequently, condition report review meetings are frequently used to review and prioritize newly submitted condition reports.

New Markets: Why Leaving Your Comfort Zone Is A Good Idea

As a business owner, you will doubtless have particular markets that you sell your wares to. For instance, let’s say that you run a bicycle store. Your target market will be people that want to cycle for leisure and competition purposes. You might have thought about targeting different audiences. Like people that want a bespoke […]

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Leadership Inspiration – Purchasing the Future

“The future is purchased by the present.” Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 14 – Establish Time Limits for Causal Analyses

Determining the amount of time required for performing causal analyses is a balancing act. The depth of issue investigation should align with its significance. Consequently, more significant events require additional time to perform the more detailed causal analysis assigned to them. Countering this is the urgency to understand and correct the underlying causes of more significant events as well as to put into place those barriers that will prevent their recurrence. Thus, it is important to establish time limits for causal analysis performance that effectively balance these two opposing needs.

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 13 – Formally Defined Reporting Criteria

Effective corrective action programs support achievement of the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. Consequently, adverse conditions and trends as well as performance improvement opportunities entered into the program must be aligned with these stated outcomes lest the program’s resource be diverted to non-value adding issues and its effectiveness be diminished. Formally defining corrective action program reporting criteria helps ensure the desired alignment is achieved and program effectiveness maximized.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Are you the ‘Toast’ of your meetings?

I’m giving a 10-minute talk at Toastmasters in NYC tomorrow night. Subject? Humor – what it is, how to create it, and how to use it. I am challenged to help the club members (who all have humor as the basis of their speaking) find new ways and new ideas to make their audience laugh […]

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 12 – Formally Defined Corrective Action Program

Effective corrective action programs engage employees in the identification, documentation, evaluation, prioritization, and resolution of organizational challenges thereby enhancing achievement the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. These programs themselves are highly efficient and capable of producing repeatable results. Documenting corrective action program processes provides the framework necessary to achieve this level of focused execution consistency.