Anthony Etzel / Tuesday, July 12, 2016 / Categories: Infor LX & BPCS Tips Tip of the Week: Ways to Manage the Pain of Losing a Key Employee Before it Ever Happens Sit down with your IT team. Decide how the information will be captured and where it will be stored so that employees have access to it. What software tools need to be used to capture the information? How does it need to be organized? Create a repeatable process to make this easy for your staff. Interview the person. Have them talk you through his/her job. What are the things they do every day? What are their biggest challenges? How do they overcome them? Have someone shadow the person for a week. Watch what they do and how they do it. Ask questions. Who does he/she interact with in their department? Outside of their department? Why? Find out what tools he/she uses to perform their job? Are there spreadsheets? Reports within your ERP / outside of your ERP? Separate stand-alone databases? Drawings? Websites? Why does he/she use them? Video record how the person does their job. Is their technique critical to “doing it right” the first time and not ending up with a bunch of scrap that you can’t reuse? Figure out if the person does anything special on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis that might not come up during the observation period or interview. Map how he/she uses your business system and how that impacts the rest of the company. Understand both the “what” and the “why”. Without this, new employees may end up figuring out what they need to do, but never understand why they need to do it. Optimize Your Manufacturing Today! Previous Article Tip of the Week: Ways to Manage the Pain of Losing a Key Employee Before it Ever Happens Next Article Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Accurate Job Costing Print 52534 Rate this article: No rating Anthony EtzelAnthony Etzel Other posts by Anthony Etzel Contact author Facebook page Twitter Linked In YouTube Website
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