Hold the Donuts
We all hate meetings, especially when the meeting doesn't give us the outcome we want. Too often, it is only an excuse for donuts and coffee, and to be honest, they aren't a very productive use of time either.
Utilizing tools to make your meeting more effective can make all the difference between another boring, fruitless meeting and the next step to getting things done around your office.
1. First things first: Have a purpose for the meeting. A meeting that is simply a standing get-together can become an excuse to avoid work. If there is not a point and an expected outcome to the meeting, don't bother. Everyone in business has time demands, and no one has a spare hour to kill on a wasted opportunity to resolve issues and make progress. Skip the donuts; nobody needs the calories anyway!
2. Have an agenda. Circulate the agenda before hand, and then stick to it during the meeting.
3. Use a 'parking lot' for off-topic issues, ideas and problems. You can always come back to the other topic when the time is right and the correct people are available. Stick to your guns when managing meeting time, and stick to the agenda.
4. Be on time and hold everyone to that same expectation. Use tools (peer pressure is great) to influence everyone to show up on time.
5. Be prepared and arrive familiar with the topics to be covered. Know what you want to say, what you need (and expect) as an outcome, and be the best example you can to help other participants do the same.
6. Participate, but don't hog the spotlight. Everyone invited to the meeting should have a reason to be there, and should have a chance to express themselves.
7. Be polite. Even though we all think we are the very example of professional deportment, we all need a reminder occasionally; pay attention, even when you aren't the one talking. Wait for others to finish speaking before adding your "two cents" worth. Be tough on the issues, but respectful of your colleagues. Don't start sidebar conversations. Mute your phone.
Give as good as you get, and everyone will profit from the time spent together. Following these few rules will make all meetings a lot more productive in 2012, and nobody will really miss the donuts!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Friday, October 28, 2011
Top Ten Best Practices for your CMMS
Top Ten Best Practices for your CMMS
Join MRG's Dennis Belanger, Vice President, in an informative webinar from emaint that will discover the fundamental improvements that you can make to your maintenance and reliability practices.
What: Top 10 Best Maintenance Practices For Your CMMS
Date: November, 16, 2011
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT
This month Dennis Belanger, CMRP and Vice President of MRG, a Maintenance and Reliability Consulting and Engineering firm, will be sharing the "Top 10 Best Maintenance Practices for Your CMMS" which are based on MRG's 25 years experience working with clients.
The Top 10 list will outline answers to these questions and touch on the following topics:
Foundational Requirements
Getting the Basics Right
How to Get Everyone On Board
Management Discipline
Sustainable Improvement
Through MRG's history, they have helped clients drive financial and performance improvement to the bottom line. These practices have been battle tested to generate sustainable, valuable results and to provide the core foundation for successful, sustainable use of a CMMS.
Click here to register.
Join MRG's Dennis Belanger, Vice President, in an informative webinar from emaint that will discover the fundamental improvements that you can make to your maintenance and reliability practices.
What: Top 10 Best Maintenance Practices For Your CMMS
Date: November, 16, 2011
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT
This month Dennis Belanger, CMRP and Vice President of MRG, a Maintenance and Reliability Consulting and Engineering firm, will be sharing the "Top 10 Best Maintenance Practices for Your CMMS" which are based on MRG's 25 years experience working with clients.
The Top 10 list will outline answers to these questions and touch on the following topics:
Foundational Requirements
Getting the Basics Right
How to Get Everyone On Board
Management Discipline
Sustainable Improvement
Through MRG's history, they have helped clients drive financial and performance improvement to the bottom line. These practices have been battle tested to generate sustainable, valuable results and to provide the core foundation for successful, sustainable use of a CMMS.
Click here to register.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Don't Miss Out on the 2011 Asset Management & Reliability Summit!
Spaces are filling up quick, so register today to reserve your spot with MRG and Flowserve at the 2011 Asset Management & Reliability Summit on November 15th and 16th in The Greater Houston Area.
Registrations are first come, first serve and will close November 7th, 2011.
Seasoned industry professionals will discuss common challenges faced today, relate success stories, and demonstrate solution options that you can apply immediately. Learn how to leverage the expertise of key suppliers in making the road to reliability success shorter and less risky. This open and interactive forum will also provide you with a valuable networking opportunity.
Join us and take your organization to the next level!!
Click here to register!
Registrations are first come, first serve and will close November 7th, 2011.
Seasoned industry professionals will discuss common challenges faced today, relate success stories, and demonstrate solution options that you can apply immediately. Learn how to leverage the expertise of key suppliers in making the road to reliability success shorter and less risky. This open and interactive forum will also provide you with a valuable networking opportunity.
Join us and take your organization to the next level!!
Click here to register!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Join MRG and Flowserve in the Greater Houston Area!
2011 Asset Management and Reliability Summit
Join MRG and Flowserve in the Greater Houston Area for one and a half days of industry insight into reliability and maintenance!
"The EAM Summit educated our company on the high potential to improve our reliability efforts. It pointed out clearly to us where we had the opportunity to improve and the value of that opportunity. The concept of evaluating maintenance cost as a percentage of replacement asset value and correlating that measure to various best practices was especially eye-opening." Steve Rowland, COO - Rain CII Carbon LLC
November 15th-16th 2011
South Shore Harbour Resort
League City, TX 77573
(800) 442-5005
Register Today!
Join MRG and Flowserve in the Greater Houston Area for one and a half days of industry insight into reliability and maintenance!
"The EAM Summit educated our company on the high potential to improve our reliability efforts. It pointed out clearly to us where we had the opportunity to improve and the value of that opportunity. The concept of evaluating maintenance cost as a percentage of replacement asset value and correlating that measure to various best practices was especially eye-opening." Steve Rowland, COO - Rain CII Carbon LLC
November 15th-16th 2011
South Shore Harbour Resort
League City, TX 77573
(800) 442-5005
Register Today!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
MRG and Flowserve Announce - Asset Management and Reliability Summit November 15-16, 2011
MRG and Flowserve Announce - Asset Management and Reliability Summit November 15-16, 2011
MRG and Flowserve invite you to join a select group of your peers for a complimentary* one and a half day Asset Management and Reliability Summit, November 15th & 16th 2011 in the Greater Houston Area.
DATE:
November 15th and 16th 2011
LOCATION: Greater Houston Area
South Shore Harbour Resort
League City, TX 77573
(800) 442-5005
In this powerful workshop, discover the impact reliability-focused asset management can have on business performance. Best-in-class companies from every industry have successfully introduced a culture of reliability while improving asset performance. See how this improves margins, OSHA compliance and availability, while failures of critical assets decrease.
Seasoned industry professionals will discuss common challenges faced today, relate success stories, and demonstrate solution options that you can apply immediately. Learn how to leverage the expertise of key suppliers in making the road to reliability success shorter and less risky. This open and interactive forum will also provide you with a valuable networking opportunity.
Join us and take your organization to the next level!!
For more information or to register, contact:
MRG - Donna Odegard:
(281) 705-6670 or odegardd@mrgsolutions.com
Flowserve - Angela Ooley
(713) 374-7122 or Aooley@flowserve.com
For the schedule at a glance and the registration form, click here.
MRG and Flowserve invite you to join a select group of your peers for a complimentary* one and a half day Asset Management and Reliability Summit, November 15th & 16th 2011 in the Greater Houston Area.
DATE:
November 15th and 16th 2011
LOCATION: Greater Houston Area
South Shore Harbour Resort
League City, TX 77573
(800) 442-5005
In this powerful workshop, discover the impact reliability-focused asset management can have on business performance. Best-in-class companies from every industry have successfully introduced a culture of reliability while improving asset performance. See how this improves margins, OSHA compliance and availability, while failures of critical assets decrease.
Seasoned industry professionals will discuss common challenges faced today, relate success stories, and demonstrate solution options that you can apply immediately. Learn how to leverage the expertise of key suppliers in making the road to reliability success shorter and less risky. This open and interactive forum will also provide you with a valuable networking opportunity.
Join us and take your organization to the next level!!
For more information or to register, contact:
MRG - Donna Odegard:
(281) 705-6670 or odegardd@mrgsolutions.com
Flowserve - Angela Ooley
(713) 374-7122 or Aooley@flowserve.com
For the schedule at a glance and the registration form, click here.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Join MRG at the SMRP Conference 2011
Join MRG for a workshop at the SMRP Annual Conference in Greensboro, NC from October 17-20!
We are offering:
The Reliability Game® (Workshop #14)
Thursday, October 20th
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Maintenance Management 101/201 (Workshop #9)
Thursday, October 20th
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM!
Register today! http://www.smrp.org/conference/2011/registration.asp
We are offering:
The Reliability Game® (Workshop #14)
Thursday, October 20th
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Maintenance Management 101/201 (Workshop #9)
Thursday, October 20th
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM!
Register today! http://www.smrp.org/conference/2011/registration.asp
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The PM Compliance Trap
The PM Compliance Trap
Metrics drive behavior. Many organizations start with PM compliance in the early stages of their reliability program. This is a good place to start when your organization is 100% reactive and pushes behavior that prioritizes Scheduled preventive maintenance over breakdown maintenance. However, once this metric has been accepted within the organization new behaviors can appear which are as detrimental to the organization as breakdown maintenance. Your organization must start to consider additional metrics in order to prevent these new behaviors from setting in.
PM compliance tracks the completion of PM tasks to their scheduled date, but what about work quality, effective use of resources, and the effectiveness of the PM task itself. To ensure a complete set of measures these other aspects must be taken into account. Multiple metrics must be used to create a balance so that the right behaviors are driven into your organization. For example, the quality of a job plan, how well it is scheduled, and how well the crafts time is used are measures of the quality of your work performance.
The other aspect of this series of metrics is the measurement of the effectiveness of you PM tasks. A craftsman will lose faith in the process and leadership if he performs the same task over and over with no new findings. Craftsman know when a task should be changed or deleted from the system. Using metrics to measure the effectiveness of PM's will give the maintenance organization a way to validate their existing PM's and identify areas of waste. It will also give the crafts an opportunity to provide feedback in their role on the front lines.
Metrics drive behavior. Many organizations start with PM compliance in the early stages of their reliability program. This is a good place to start when your organization is 100% reactive and pushes behavior that prioritizes Scheduled preventive maintenance over breakdown maintenance. However, once this metric has been accepted within the organization new behaviors can appear which are as detrimental to the organization as breakdown maintenance. Your organization must start to consider additional metrics in order to prevent these new behaviors from setting in.
PM compliance tracks the completion of PM tasks to their scheduled date, but what about work quality, effective use of resources, and the effectiveness of the PM task itself. To ensure a complete set of measures these other aspects must be taken into account. Multiple metrics must be used to create a balance so that the right behaviors are driven into your organization. For example, the quality of a job plan, how well it is scheduled, and how well the crafts time is used are measures of the quality of your work performance.
The other aspect of this series of metrics is the measurement of the effectiveness of you PM tasks. A craftsman will lose faith in the process and leadership if he performs the same task over and over with no new findings. Craftsman know when a task should be changed or deleted from the system. Using metrics to measure the effectiveness of PM's will give the maintenance organization a way to validate their existing PM's and identify areas of waste. It will also give the crafts an opportunity to provide feedback in their role on the front lines.
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