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5 ways to increase productivity in manufacturing

Stephanie Armstrong Manufacturing

Productivity in the manufacturing process is critical as low work levels equate to money lost. If your company's production output isn't aligning with the business hours, examine how to improve efficiency. Not only does quickening and organizing the workflow save time, but it also allows you to produce more goods to increase profits. It's important not to cut corners as this will likely diminish the quality and lead to complaints or even recalls. Examining the current practices will help you discover what's slowing down the process. If you aren't sure what changes will enhance productivity, here are five factors to consider.

Besides higher wages, what else can businesses do to address labor shortages?

Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

When everyone in hospitality is hiring to meet growing demand and prepare for the summer, many are struggling to fill job openings. How bad is the current labor shortage situation? A restaurant owner in New York City, for instance, posted a job listing for a host/hostess position at $30 an hour but received no response for two weeks. A year ago, the same restaurant would have received "hundreds and hundreds of resumes" already for the same position paying $20 an hour. When every company is offering a higher wage and even sign-on bonuses to new hires, businesses must do more to respond to the labor shortage challenge.

Avoiding client-agency breakdown: Always ‘feedforward,’ never…

Paul Cowan Business Management, Services & Risk Management

We were a young breakaway agency, packed with talent and hungry for all the opportunities we could get. Our overhead included a ridiculously large budget for salaries that had to be covered every month. We brought in all the clients we could and always asked for their feedback on our work and on our agency — how did we do? What could we have done better? Like many startup businesses, we thought asking for feedback would prove useful and demonstrate that we valued the client relationship above all else. We asked for feedback on almost everything.

How to automate SEO tasks for maximum efficiency

Sunjay Randhawa Marketing

As Google continues to optimize its site to be user-friendly, SEO adapts. Famously coy about giving exact SEO specifications, Google has made one thing clear: its algorithms are always going to be working toward making sure results are relevant and trustworthy. Maybe you’ve just been taken on as a company’s first SEO specialist and are feeling a bit overwhelmed at the sheer number of tasks. Maybe you’ve been trying to keep up with SEO best practices for a long time but find yourself with less and less time to focus on the bigger picture. Automation is growing, and luckily there are a multitude of ways you can automate some of your SEO.

B2B tactic boosts high-value service lines

Jeff Barasch Healthcare Administration

While healthcare organizations are busier than ever due to the pandemic, their bottom lines have suffered. But hospitals and healthcare systems can offset the fiscal hit by leveraging their top revenue-generating clinical services. High-value service lines, even in competitive markets such as metro New York, have been setting themselves apart with precisely targeted, multi-faceted B2B marketing that incorporates specialty publications. Elite cardiology and ortho service lines have used high-impact journal-style publications to target referring physicians with a great deal of success.

Financial choices that will benefit your business

Rayanne Morriss Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Making sound financial business decisions can be compared to drinking enough water, getting enough sleep, and having a healthy diet. If you don’t do those things, your health will fail. Similarly, if you don’t make sound financial decisions, your business cannot succeed. Half of small businesses fail within five years in part due to a lack of good financial decisions. The following are some financial choices that will benefit your business.

Cezanne HR reveals how employees’ attitudes to workplace benefits have…

Shandel McAuliffe Business Management, Services & Risk Management

“Enhanced leave” has shot to the top of the benefits wish list in 2021, pushing “healthcare and insurance” from first to second place (according to comparison data from 2018). “Social” benefits have unsurprisingly dropped from second place (2018) to ninth place (2021) reflecting changing priorities, presumably resulting from the pandemic.

Successfully encouraging productivity for remote and in-office employees

Indiana Lee Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Since the start of the pandemic, many businesses have chosen to incorporate working from home as part of a more agile structure that includes elements of both remote operations and in-office work. Some have certain workers always on-site and others spread across the world, while a lot of companies are taking a hybrid approach that sees their employees split their schedule between the office and home. Whichever route your business is taking, one of your key concerns is likely to be maintaining a high level of productivity.

Celebrating volunteers

Robert C. Harris Association Management

Volunteers make communities better. There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations structured to engage the time and talent of volunteers. It is estimated there are 22 million people serving on boards. "I have worked with association volunteers for over 25 years, always amazed by the things they accomplish outside of their jobs and family lives. Volunteers are selfless individuals who feel a responsibility and desire to give back to their communities and professions, affect positive change, and contribute to the greater good," offers Dee Kring, CAE, CMP, chief staff executive at Partners in Association Management.

Top 10 mistakes made on résumés

Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

While résumés have evolved over the past decade, some of the same old mistakes keep popping up! For example, the purpose of a résumé is to make it easy for an employer to determine if someone is the right candidate or not. An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) will reject it if it is not a high-percentage match to employer requirements, and employers will not try to guess how nonemployer-centric content might be applied to them. Employers should be able to easily see how you will be an asset to their organization.

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