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 Mission, Vision, Values & Goals by David Grusenmeyer, Sr. Extension Associate, PRO-DAIRY
(06/04)
Teams and team building efforts are popular buzzwords in today’s work environment. Bringing individuals together in the workplace and getting them to work together as an effective team is a challenge. The sports team analogy is often sighted and sought after in the workplace, but seldom achieved. What is it about successful sports teams that make them function so well as teams?
Developing
Effective Standard Operating Procedures (02/03). This article reviews
the benefits of standard operating procedures, gives suggestions for organizing
your SOP development effort, lists the steps in developing SOPs, identifies
the uses of SOPs and outlines considerations for determining the format
and level of detail they should contain.
Brand You (11/02)
Developing a personal brand image is a slow process and requires continual effort
and attention. The 10 items in this "Personal Brand Equity Plan" are
designed to do two things: First, track where you are and the progress you've
made in developing your personal brand image. Second, outline the most important
things you need to do to continue building your brand equity.
Standard Operating
Procedure Form
This form can help you organize the development of farm
specific and task specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's). Page one contains
several SOP related areas that working through at the start will help you develop
and later implement the SOP. Page two is where every step or procedure in the
protocol is listed. Columns are also provided to number the steps, indicate approximate
time required for each step, reference other SOP's, or any other use that will
help you organize, develop and implement the SOP.
Job Description Development
Worksheet (updated 10/02)
This form will help you think through and organize all the
bits of information that may be contained in a job description. Depending
on the job and your preference, the final job description may not contain all
the information included on the form.
Delegation - Task/Activity
Analysis
This form will help you identify tasks you would like to
delegate, estimate the amount of time you spend on those tasks, think about if
you can delegate a task "as is" or if some revision or modification
will be necessary, and rate the task as a "Choice" assignment, "Routine"
work, or a "Thankless" job.
Delegation Worksheet
This form prompts you to think about the important aspects of effective delegation.
For simple tasks each of these aspects may be a simple mental checkoff.
For more complex tasks it may be beneficial to actually fill out the form in conjunction
with the person to whom you are delegating.
Task Identification
This form will help you identify and begin to organize all the tasks that must
be accomplished in a particular work area on a regular basis.
Job Elements
This worksheet will help you to further organize tasks into job elements, allows
tasks to be listed in order if a particular task must be completed before the
next task can be started, identify the skill level required to accomplish each
task or job element, and the performance consequences associated with each.
This form can be useful in combining job elements in to positions or workloads
to help group high skill level, serious performance consequence job elements into
higher level job positions and less critical job elements in entry level positions.
Allocating Workloads
This worksheet is useful for scheduling the activities of individuals to help
assure the individual is not "under-employed". Likewise the form
helps assure an employee is not overworked to avoid employee burnout and potentially
tasks going undone. Fourteen hours are spread across three pages. Depending
on shift length the number of required pages may vary.
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Questions
regarding CONTENT of these pages, contact David Grusenmeyer dcg10@cornell.edu