JAMES CONSULTING

How many days do you work in a week? How many hours do you work in a day? If I were to reference to the Labor Code of the Philippines, a normal workweek is 6 days and a normal workday is 8 hours and so it will be 48 hours a week. Imagine how many is that in a month? Or a year? You don't have to take a calculator to do that, let me tell you. It's 192 hours per month and 2,496 per year. And that's excluding the overtime and rest days. But what if your workers are only working half of the time? What are they doing the other half of the time? That's true. Research has shown that employees only work 20% to 50% of the time. The rest of the time has been taken up by work-related stuffs. Or what we call non-productive time. So if your working hours is from 8am - 5pm, then in fact, your employees can go home at around 1pm. Why are you keeping them in the office until 5pm when nothing is being produced?

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That's what we are trying to help you to accomplish. There are many ways of doing it. 1st we help you to identify areas of improvement. We realize that the larger the organization, the higher the inefficiency. You may have tons of standard operating procedures and a lot of guidelines, protocols whatsoever to follow. But do you know that over time many of these are obsolete? However, these obsolete procedures are still in place because it became a practice. People simply follow practices and besides, removing of these practices requires higher order. By the time, an employee submit recommendation till the time the procedure is removed, how long do you think that takes? Yes, you are right. It's like forever. So no one ever bothers do that. And that's what we can help you to do. Not in the sense of auditing your practices but to inculcate the mentality and the start of building the right culture.

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Then next, you will need to maintain it. What you do next will determine whether your employees are going to follow it through. If it's recommendation after recommendation and nothing gets done about it, people gets sick of it. It is just a show to pretend to care but in actual fact, nothing will change. Or the management putting emphasize on getting the right mentality and get things going. It is going to be difficult but we are here to help. With our years of experience with change management, we will help you to train and guide your senior management and supervisory staffs to build up your productivity.

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Lastly, you will wish that this goes on a auto pilot mode. Then you need to learn to trust and delegate. Delegate responsibilities to those accountable for the tasks. They are the ones who knows the best. The ones doing it are the ones best at it. Of course check and balance needs to be there but redundancy can be removed. Shift it downwards and give your staffs the autonomy to decide, the responsibility to act and accountability to their actions.