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I was talking to a manager the other day about a lack of results from their team. We were standing next to a nice looking visual management board, and discussing the role of managers to kick away the obstacles for the team. So, when I asked them about what problems their team were facing they quickly gave me a list. "Who can resolve the problems that they are stuck on?" I asked. "Well, I guess that's my job to either coach them or to directly help when appropriate" they replied. "How much time do you spend on resolving their stuck issues?" "Well, I'm pretty busy with other things, so not much" I probed a little further and found out that they were spending time fire fighting because their team couldn't get their work done due to a lack of decisions being made elsewhere in the business. This kind of downward spiral isn't uncommon... A quick solution If you find yourself in a similar situation, why not try the following experiment? ...

Have you heard of the sunrise meeting approach? It's a fast and simple management approach that helps your teams to focus on the essential parts of their role. This can be used to maximise output and achieve high on time delivery performance. I've just uploaded this video to You Tube that explains: what a sunrise meeting is,  what the benefits are, how you create one, and how our ERP system ( Fraction ERP ) helps to run a sunrise meeting. The sunrise meeting approach is one of my 'go to' tools when working with a new business that needs to get a grip over their operational performance. If you haven't come across this term before then I hope the video above gives you some good ideas. If you need some more detailed instructions, and some more ideas on how to apply the approach, check out my book Sunrise Meetings on Amazon , Apple Books and other platforms here . Giles About the author: Giles Johnston is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in helping businesses t...