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Hard-Hat Productivity-The 9 Critical Factors for Maximizing Profits

Session Type: Management
Track Number: M-16
Location: MPLC
Room: E353c
Speaker: Norb Slowikowski

Date: Monday, October 06, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Description:

  To be successful is to be productive.  If the company can be effective and efficient, they will be productive.  The roadmap to that type of success is possible through the use of the 9 Critical Factors: (1)  Journey to Excellence:  Building trust, commitment and delivering values, (2) Hard-Hat Basics:  Planning, organizing, communicating, checking & measuring, (3) Teamwork:  Creates synergy and employee involvement, (4)  Leadership:  Establish a positive work climate and "Peak Performance Focus," (5)  Organization:  Creating process and alignment between the office and the field, (6)  Motivation:  Getting people to want to do their best work everyday. (7) Customer Satisfaction:  The customer is the designated driver; move toward customer, (8) Developing People:  How to retain good employees. (9) Managing Change:  Becoming a positive "change agent."

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker Bio:

   Norb Slowikowski is a Productivity Consultant who has been working in the Construction Industry since 1982.  He has assisted over 180 contractors in improving productivity and maximizing profitability by focusing on training, management and leadership skills.  Norb also helps contractors implement basic productivity improvement tools.  He is a graduate of Loyola University in Chicago where he received a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S. in Organizational Development.

 

 

 

 

 

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