essence of the effective team

productivity has been sizzling the past two days in the shop. I have at the last staff meeting put out on the weekly goal sheet the gant chart showing all the active and inactive jobs. So the staff can see at a glance all the jobs we have and also what stage they are in. the jobs are either P for production, F for finish or I for install, we call the PFI chart. also on the chart is a time line that we measure by week number in the year, currently we are in week 10. My next step is combine the cash flow chart on the PFI chart, so at a glance we can see what needs to get paid, or better yet the staff can see how important a job is to complete by knowing the monetary value of the completed job. On this chart I highlight where we are now so we can see what needs to be done. This is the essence of the effective team. When the team simply knows what to do without direction.