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PIP Speak - the newsletter of Partners in Performance.
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PIP Speak is a vehicle for PIP to share the knowledge that our Resultants® gain from working with companies to build better businesses.
It's knowledge developed from our hands-on approach to implementing solutions around the globe, to improve the on going success of your organisation. We hope that PIP Executive Extracts achieve this objective.
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Choose from these PIP Speak topics
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Continuous Improvement
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Transaction Services / Private Equity
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Cost Reduction
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If the money isn’t out there, try looking inside!
There are times in all businesses’ lives when the belt needs to be tightened to free up cash.
This article shows you three main areas to look into, and suggests more than 25 things you can do (nearly...
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Cost Wiring
Many businesses are finding their costs increasing. If these are not reined in now, they will become cemented into the business and hard to remove. This article outlines some of the basic elements to ...
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Cost Reduction
Many of our clients are facing worrying signs. Some are already feeling the impact of lack of cost management on their profitability. We outline the 4 drivers of costs and methods to tackle them.
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Optimising Overheads – It’s That Time Again…
This article outlines how to tackle overhead costs. It focuses on clarifying how a function adds value, how to increase this value and how to reduce the costs associated with this.
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Wiring
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People Management and Skills Development
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Agreeing deliverables – getting the conditions right for excellence in execution
Agreeing deliverables is the first, crucial half of ensuring accountability. If done well, accountability just seems to flow. If done poorly, execution becomes an exercise in frustration for managers ...
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Meetings that work
In this article PIP outlines the
‘5 Ps’ of good meetings – the
key ingredients for meetings
which are consistently
productive. Good business
meetings have a clear purpose
and end products, from ...
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Proactive management – debunking the ‘micromanagement’ myth
The terms “empowerment” and “micro-management” are most often seen as lying at opposite ends of a spectrum. A better approach - which we term “proactive management” - is a hybrid of both styles.
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Communicating for High Performance
The real challenge for effective 'communication' is how to ‘hard wire’ systems and habits so that the organisation communicates and shares information with itself as an ongoing habit.
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Solve your skills shortage through faster recruiting processes
With skills shortages hobbling many companies, the race is on to find and attract the best candidates before your competitors. The key is to increase the speed of the recruiting pipeline.
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Front line coaching – getting the engine room productive
The difference between good and great front line coaching is the extent to which it targets the KPIs and people that will have the biggest profit impact.
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Sick of absenteeism and tired of overtime?
Absenteeism and overtime can often be rapidly reduced through a combination of rapid behavioural change (increasing controls and closed loop reporting) and implementing root cause solutions to issues ...
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Getting the most from your people
Our experience, which may be counter-intuitive at first, is that by increasing performance expectations and improving your performance management system, you’re more likely to retain your best people....
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Want to lower your handicap? Look at your training and coaching regime.
Like golf, while the basics of managing and improving a business are all very simple when viewed in isolation, the combination of many simple things in a dynamic situation means that achieving good re...
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Training for High Performance
Want to lift skills for a high performing business? Training courses alone won’t help. Experience shows that a whole-of-organisation strategy needs to be deployed to get a performance uplift that stic...
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Maintenance
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Operations Management
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Energy, Emissions and Waste Reduction
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Diagnostics
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Outsource or Insource?
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Capital Projects
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Contractor Management
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Safety
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