Like everything else, businesses can’t grow without changing. Right?
The very nature of growth is change.
Change can be sometimes forced upon us as a response to a situation.
How a business responds to staffing challenges as an example can be simply the difference between going under or surviving or thriving.
As many business are struggling to find, recruit and in some cases retain staff, a proactive approach is to observe, streamline and improve critical stages of a business, typically a production line.
A production line in many ways is a controlled environment, meaning that it is possible to automate and streamline various areas of production that in the past have been labor intensive. In reflection, many have invested in technology that has reduced manual process in breakdown, cutting & drilling tasks, but not much more than that.
If a business has invested in machinery to either maintain or increase output, typically the knock on effect is we will need more staff in the stages that follow in the production line. Most businesses tend to be hiring as they already have the work, they have a bottle neck in their business and need a plug and play solution in new staff members. It is common to be faced with the prospect of hiring staff that have little or no experience. As a business owner you are presented with the dilemma of hiring staff and having to teach them as you battle through the work, paying overs and accepting that you really have no other choice.
We must accept that experience is harder to recruit and will continue to be in the future - Period.
We must therefore take steps to simplifying the various stages of production, sooner than later. By observing each stage a job passes through, we have to open our mind to seek out opportunity's to make it possible that today's tasks can be completed by tomorrows lower skilled worker. The businesses that introduce this type of mindset, will win.
Exploring ways of making the various stages of a production line easier to learn so that new employees have the ability to make an instant impact on production flow. This is where Technology can help when faced with lack of experience.
Scheduling software that takes in account the various stages of production and the variables that need to be considered, reducing the guess work.
Production Information on Screens in factories telling staff what to do and when to it. On demand instructions, images and how to guides. Clear repeatable instructions.
Keeping everyone up to date with progress and on the same page.
If we can focus on simplifying the various stages of production, it makes it possible that tasks can be completed by lower skilled workers. This then allows a business to broaden the labor hire market, and ultimately makes it possible to grow!
As profit margins continue to be a challenge to maintain, invest in technology that helps provide your business a system to open up your recruitment strategy to a greater audience.
This type of strategy will allow a business to grow, thrive and be a leader of tomorrow.
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