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New material added to the Making It Happen programme


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Nine new modules have been added to the Making It Happen programme, my online course sharing straightforward and effective continual improvement strategies and approaches.

The really good news is that have all been added to the free month section of the programme!

(You can find out more about the Making It Happen programme at http://www.making-it-happen.website/)

This means that the free month of the programme now includes:

On day one you get access to the Productivity Boost modules:

The End of a Process
A quick review of your main business processes’ effectiveness by focusing on the last step in the process.

Hour of Pain
An effective strategy to buy some time to help you with your improvements.

Measuring Your Productivity
If you don’t know where you are now, how will you know when your projects have made a proper contribution to your business?

Personal Losses
If you don’t know where your time gets sucked away to you will be less effective in making change happen.

Process Driven Meetings
Change your focus on your business meetings and improve the results that they produce.

The Project ‘Cupboard’ Method
A powerful strategy to get your projects off the ground and delivering results.

Rolling Planning Horizons
Add some structure and schedule to when you will deliver your projects and phase the activity correctly.

Using Takt Time to Focus Your Improvements
Calculate just how much of an improvement you need to make within your business and improve the success of your process re-engineering projects.

Tying Up Loose Ends
Spring clean your business life and create some head-space to tackle your improvement challenges.

Then, as part of the scheduled programme you will get access to:
  1. The CARL Tool
A simple method to give you an instant boost in your own effectiveness at making change happen.

  1. Using CCC to increase engagement
A quick tool to help you get your team on board with the improvement process.

  1. Creating effective action plans
A step-by-step method to help you create effective improvement action plans, every time.

  1. Prioritising improvement opportunities
A robust approach to help you select the optimum sequence of improvement activities for your business.
After this the $10 / month fee starts, allowing you to access the remaining 26 lessons, the sprint projects and the coaching emails.

If you want to access the free month, sign up here:
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About the author Giles Johnston is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in helping businesses to grow and improve through better business processes. Giles is also the author of Business Process Re-Engineering and creator of the 'Making It Happen' continuous improvement toolkit.


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