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Leadership Card 4 – Productivity and Profit

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Design Your Work For Ease Of Use – Leader Card 4

Leadership Card 4 - productivity and profit

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Employee Engagement Affects Productivity and Profit

Most everyday leaders battling in the trenches are not aware of a thing called “Systems thinking”.  It’s a way of thinking, taught to most MBAs or business school graduates that asks you to think of the bigger picture, and then the bigger picture again, and to how each tiny action will affect the whole.

The perfect example of this is how employee engagement – where your employees enjoy and are empowered to do their work – affects not only your team’s happiness but the productivity of your team and the profit of your company.

If you are a small business or a startup this is absolutely critical, because eventually you will be needing to hire your initial team of people to run things when you’re not around.  Trusting those first few people with your fledgling business can be very difficult, but it is made infinitely easier with the trust that comes from highly engaged, high productivity and high output team mates.

Design Your Work for Ease of Use

The good news is there is a proven framework that shows you, step up step, how to design your work in a way that increases engagement and reduces the friction you feel when your work isn’t quite right.

It’s called the Ease of Use framework, and it was first outlined in the book “The Lean CX Score”.  It takes the absolute best methods from the most customer and culture-centric business improvement method of the last century, and makes them usable in a white collar world.

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Leadership Card 3 – Sales and Satisfaction

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Leadership Card 3 - Sales and Satisfaction

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Sales and Satisfaction

It’s amazing the affect something seemingly unrelated can have on something bigger.  Most managers are busy trying to get through their day (and oftentimes night), just putting out the fires that come up.  They’re so busy that they never think about intentionally designing their work for ease of use.  Designing their work in a way that improves the small things, that affect the bigger things.

A little thing like employee engagement – how much your team enjoy and are enabled to do their work – can affect something as important to your business as sales.  In fact, if cashflow is the oxygen of your business, then breathing is making the sale – it is that necessary to life of your business.

Using the framework I describe in the Lean CX Score to get intentional about designing your work can make a huge difference, in more ways that you might initially think.

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Leadership Card 2 – Levels Of Engagement

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Recent research has found that the majority of workers are not “engaged” in their work.  By engagement we mean they know what is expected of them, have the tools to do their work and enjoy their work.

The effects of low engagement can be huge on a company.  As you will soon see in future Leadership Cards, sales are lower, productivity is lower, and absenteeism is higher.  It’s a hidden cost that leaders may believe they have no control over, however by being intentional about designing your work for ease of use, using the ease of use framework, you can significantly improve the engagement of your teams.

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Leadership Card 1 – Introduction

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Welcome to the first Leadership Card by David McLachlan.

So many studies have shown the benefits of intentionally designing your work, designing your customer experiences, and designing your products for Ease of Use.  Huge benefits, like outperforming other companies in the stock market by 76% on average over five years (during market crises too), enabling customers to stay for six years on average (instead of just one), and much much more.

The Leadership Cards will bring you research and frameworks, packaged in a neat card for you to collect each week as you improve your business, your leadership, and your life.

Please enjoy!

Leadership Card Deck 001 Introduction - Lean CX Ease of Use

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The Leadership Card Deck

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Leadership Card Deck 001 Introduction - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 002 Lean CX Ease of Use Employee Engagement Leadership Card 003 Lean CX Ease of Use Sales and Satisfaction Leadership Card 004 Lean CX Ease of Use Profit Productivity Leadership Card 005 Lean CX Ease of Use Absenteeism Turnover Leadership Card 006 Defects Theft Safety - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 007 Clear Outcomes - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 008 What is expected - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 009 Setting Clear Outcomes - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 010 Tie outcomes to meaning - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 011 Empathy and Clarity - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 012 Checking In - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 013 Focus on Strengths - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 014 CEOs Customers - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 015 Design the Situation - Lean CX Ease of Use  Leadership Card 016 What Workers Want - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 017 Intense Focus on Activity - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 018 Clear Objective - Lean CX Ease of Use  Leadership Card 019 Immediate Feedback - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 020 Certainty Variety - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 021 Significance Connection - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 022 Growth Contribution - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 023 Not Invented Here - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 024 - Curse of Knowledge - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 025 What looks like a people problem - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 026 - What looks like resistance - Lean CX Ease of use Leadership Card 027 What looks like laziness - Lean CX Ease of use Leadership Card 028 Make it Repeatable - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 029 Reduce the steps - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 030 Make it Visual - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 031 Impossible to make a mistake - Lean CX Ease of use Leadership Card 032 Checking In - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 033 Problem Solve - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 034 Rework - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 35 Excessive Hand offs - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 36 Waiting - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 037 Excessive Steps - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 038 Not getting what they want - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 039 Meaningful Work - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 040 Two Times Revenue - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 041 Million Dollar Checklist - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 042 Assertive Enquiry - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 043 Intrinsic motivation - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 044 Autonomy - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 045 Mastery - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 046 Purpose - Lean CX Ease of Use Leadership Card 047 Revealing Problems - Lean CX Ease of Use Lean CX 040 Leading Collaboration - Lean CX Ease of Use