What’s the best way to improve yourself and your company? Be critical. Give yourself an honest critique. Ask others for their input. Request that they be blatantly honest. We need brutal honesty to see what we may want to overlook. It is not an easy concept to accept. We all naturally want to think we are doing the very best we can, but we can’t improve if we refuse to see where we might make changes.
During our recent trade show I took notes on things that we could change and/or improve upon at the next show. After we returned home we had a meeting to not only discuss these items, but to discern if there were other items not on my list that we could change and/or improve upon to make ourselves better at the next show.
The time to look at this list and determine what we can and will do is right now while it is all still fresh in everyone’s mind. Also, this gives us the most time to utilize in implementing these changes. Don’t squash any new ideas just because they may sound too hard or too expensive to implement. Ask everyone to think harder about those ideas and see if they can come up with an easier and/or less expensive way to get the same end result. Great ideas usually start with a small concept that takes on a life of its own. Start one at your company today.
The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.
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