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Plant Efficiency “If you change the way you look at things, the
things you look at change.”
Riding the Storm and Managing the Chaos
By. Aaron Ausen
--Wayne Dyer

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First Things First A Little On Me…

• Mix Up the Room

• Pass Out Business Cards • Precaster For Life
• Get to Know One Another • Married for 10 Years
• Four Boys – Brady 10, Caleb 7, Jace 4,Brooks 3

• Hobby Farmer

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Outline Activity #1
• Let’s Talk About What We See…People
• Learn How Form Layout Can Speed Up Pour Times
and Keep Your Employees Safe
• Learn How a Well Managed Yard Can Help Reduce
Time
• Learn Tips on Managing Your People
• Understand the Importance of Leadership Roles
• Keeping Calm in the Thick of Things to Reduce
Chaos

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Zealot

• The Guy/Gal Who Always Sees the Bad In Things

• Aka Debbie Downer
Let’s Talk About People • Resists Change
• Can Get Out of Control
• Is That Person Comfortable?

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Know It All Scatter Brain

• The Guy/Gal Who Can’t Focus

• Chatty
• The Guy/Gal Knows Everything
• Always One Ups Management
• Generally Associates with Zealots
• This Person Must be Challenged
• Can That Person Be Utilized in a Different Way?

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Time Clock Millennial

• More Focused on Phone Than Work

• Have to Explain Things Many Times
• Good Luck • We Need to Focus on This Group
• Motivate Them More

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Small Business in Changing Roles

• You Cannot Hire People to Do Mundane Jobs

• You Have to Challenge People
• People Want to Work for a Place They Feel “Safe”
• If You Don’t Your Workforce will be Non-Existent or Shop Layout
Change too Rapidly

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Shop Layout Dunnage

• Understand Your Layout • Don’t Skimp on Dunnage
• Heavy Crane Pours Short • Proper Dunnage
Distance • Reduces Chips/Cracks
• Short Crane Pours Long • Reduces Staining or Debris
• Allows for Proper Spacing of
• Mobile Forms Product

• Safety Comes First • Certain Woods can Stain

Product
• Reduce Drippage on Other Forms

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Yard Layout Safety First

• Good Yards Reduce Damage
• Large Quantity of Product
Keep Short
• Big Product Go Longer • Defined safety plan
• Defined Housekeeping plan
• Centralized Shop • Continuous Improvements
• Control What you Can
• Dunnage is Key
• Meet and Revise
• Drones and Google Maps

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Spaghetti Diagrams

• Reduces Redundant
Let’s Get Lean for Sec Movement
• Can Be Done for People
or Product

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Shadow Boards Mass Comm Boards

• Good Heart of The Shop

• Tool Wanderers Technique
• No One Goes Home Until • Way to Relay a Ton of
All Tools Are Back Information

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Power of White Boards

Leadership and People

• Cheap
• Easy Tracking Management
• Easy Communication
Tool

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Manage Your Time/People Excel Tools

• Excel is a Great Tool

• Make Spreadsheets • Log Time
• Make Things Visual • Keep Track of Everything
• Use Technology
• Do You Do Metrics?

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People Are Your #1 Resource Compliment Sandwich

• Quit Your Complaining

• Good Team, Good People
• Accountability is Key
• Vision is Key
• Clear Goals are Key This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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Vision Hiring

• Don’t Fill Up and Close

• See Where to Fit People • Look Continuously
• Try People Out in New Spots • Techniques
• Mix It Up! • Social Media
• Don’t Give Up • Job Centers
• Understand People Have Places • Schools
• Be Cautious of Friends and Families
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

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Ability Assessment On Boarding

• Understand Your +’s and –’s
• DiSC or Accumax testing
• Use it to your advantage
• Lots of information for cheap
• Formal Written Process
• Should be at least One Month
• 1 Week in Each Task
• You Cannot Go Wrong with an Onboarding Process
• Example: Production – 1 week fabricating rebar, 1
week in stripping/prepping, 1 week in form set up, 1
week in pouring

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Simple Trick to Managing People Understand Teamwork

• Traction by Gino Wickman • A Good Team is the Difference Between a Win and
•G Loss
•W • Teams Have to Spend A lot of Time Together
•C • Create and Encourage Outside Interaction
• Scorecard – Keep It Simple • This Will Help the Millennial Battle

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Vision Vision

• Have a 10 Year Vision – Finish Line Vision

• A Vision Drives for the Furture
• Have a 3 Year Vision – Continuous Working Goal
• One Consistent Message
• Have a 1 Year Vision – Yearly Quick Hitter
• Re-View Message Constantly
• Have Quarterly Goals/Checks

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10 Year Vision 3 Year Vision

• Examples • Examples
• Overall Sales Goal • Sales Goal
• Overall Production Mark (Reach 100% Capacity) • Add (x) Positions
• Grow to New Location • Synthesize Process
• Industry Leader

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1 Year Vision Leadership

• Leaders See Things Differently

• Examples • Simon Sinek Example
• Sales Goal • Front Line Management
• QC Zero Defects • When to be Empathetic vs When to be Strong
• Less than 3% Scrap Rate
• Know Your Strong Points and Your Weak

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Leaders See Things Differently Empathy

• The Ability to Sense What Others are Experiencing

• Leadership is NOT an easy role
• Find Your Style
• Read People
• Understand Right and Wrong Fits
• People Are Your #1 Resource
Within Their Frame of Reference
• More Simply Put the Ability to Put Your Self in Their
Shoes
• When do you be Tough vs Empathetic?
• Traditionally Tough Prevails

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The Wheels Fell Off What Do I

Front Line Management
Do???

• Don’t Sit in your Office All Day
• Understand You Will Work Harder Than Anyone
• The More You Put in the More You Get Out
• See the Next Steps, Develop Process, Keep your
People Strong
• People Will Look to You, Have a Consistent Message
• Keep Your Long Term Goals in Sight
• Reflect and Revise
• Understand the Sun Still Sets In the Evening and
Rises the Next Day
• Stay the Course You Set Out
• Understand Difficult Experiences = Learning
Opportunities

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Leadership NPCA
Let’s Finish Up
• One Year Commitment Activity #2
• Taught by Patnaude Group
• Founding Principle HUMANager
• Do IT

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Questions???

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