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Program for Ideas by Jim Collison |
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The quickest and simplest way to work miracles in your workplace is to ask your employees for their ideas. And the smartest, most effective way to get the most ideas from your employees is with a formal employee involvement program (more commonly called a suggestion program). Right this minute your employees have in their heads ideas that would cut costs, saving you a great deal of money. Right this minute your employees have ideas that would increase your profits, making you and your business even more money. Right this minute your employees’ brains are loaded with ideas that would reduce tensions…improve customer service and customer loyalty…and continuously improve the quality of your products and services. Suggestion Program Leads to Miracles In a word, right this minute your employees have inside their brains ideas that can work miracles for you and your business. |
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Amazingly, most employers refuse to launch an employee idea and suggestion program. Or if they do, the suggestion program sputters along and then employee involvement languishes or dies. If this is true for you…consider for a moment just the money you are losing from the cost-cutting ideas your employees would share with you. Annual surveys of employee suggestion programs consistently report that the annual savings from ideas submitted in active suggestion programs average from over $700 to more than $1,000 per employee per year. Suggestion Program Means Savings This means a typical employer with 50 employees and an active suggestion program can save over $35,000 a year from ideas submitted by employees. Most of these ideas generate savings year-after-year. So the cumulative value of ideas over time is substantially greater than the $35,000. Another way to look at your losses, from not having an active employee involvement and suggestion program, is to consider the daily impact. Using the conservative figure of $700 in annual savings per employee equals savings of $1.92 per day, per employee, from cost-cutting ideas. So if you have 50 employees, and you don’t actively solicit ideas from them, you and your business could be losing $96 a day! If you have 250 employees and you don’t actively solicit employee ideas, you and your business could be losing $479 a day…$175,000 a year! Direct cost-cutting, money-saving ideas make up only part of all the ideas employees can offer you. Employers also use suggestion programs to generate employee ideas to improve quality, to improve morale, to add to product lines, and to improve safety. |
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