Checklist Success
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Which near misses are costing your business time and money?
Remove the stress of having to remember by using checklists in your business
Do you take checklists as seriously in your working life as you do in your personal life?
Stay on top of all your important projects and decisions by using checklists in your business
Use a checklist to prioritise your business critical tasks and move your business in the right direction
Reach record results and avoid costly mistakes
Checklists can help manage massive complexity
Are you ready to start seeing checklists as a critical part of the success of your business?
Who wants to fly a plane with no pre-flight checklist?
If a surgeon uses a checklist, then so should you…
Don’t risk the reputation of your business by not using checklists
The reputation of your business is at risk of you don’t take checklists seriously
Checklists are not only lifesaving but for your business then will be life changing... make that change today
If change can be implemented in the slums of Karachi with a checklist, then it can be done with ease in your business
A simple 3 or 5-point checklist could be the turning point your business is looking for
Increase the profits of your business by using checklists as a business habit
Manage complex projects and tasks with well-structured business critical checklists
Checklists prevent business critical tasks being missed – implement a checklist in your business
Take Checklists as seriously as you do the profits of your business and watch one increase the other
Keep your checklist simple and help it manage the complexity of your business
If checklists work for surgeons when saving lives, then they can work for you and help keep your business alive
Lead from the front and highlight the accomplishments achieved by following a simple checklist
Be seen to use a checklist successfully by your team and they will follow
Checklists bring stress free business planning to your business critical tasks
Choose a business critical task to use a checklist on with your team today!
Make checklists habitual and improve your business performance on your most important tasks
Checklists help prevent mistakes, drive up standards and drive up results too
Stop treating checklists as something you use for new people of new jobs
Start using checklists to ensure that critical business tasks are routinely performed
For ‘light bulb’ moments on the success of business critical checklists click here
Checklists remind us of what needs to be done, so we don’t have to rely on remembering, can you afford not to use one
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1. Remove the stress of having to remember by using checklists in your business. We use checklists in our personal life all the time, almost without realising it, why would we not do the same in our business. Treat checklists as a fundamental business driver and manage your business critical tasks with efficiency and on time.
Click here to read a 4-page business breakthrough that clearly demonstrates the success of a well-used checklist.
2. Get a good night’s sleep and avoid the stress of the late night panics by using a checklist in your business
You know those near-misses or mistakes that jolt you into wide-eyed disbelief or give you a cold sweat at night. Those near misses or mistakes that if you used a checklist would not happen. Read here the simplicity and essentialism of a business critical checklist… and sleep well again
3. You wouldn’t dream of climbing on board an aircraft if you knew the pilot was going to ignore the pre-flight checklist because she’d ‘done it before’.
Would you allow a surgeon to operate on you or one of your children if he didn’t follow the recommended World Health Authority (WHO) surgical checklist that has saved many many lives in many many countries?
So why do businesses allow certain mission critical jobs in their firm without a checklist. Click here to read why if checklists are good enough for even the smartest people, they are good enough for you…
4. Pilots and surgeons are some of the brightest and best trained people on our planet. But they use checklists at mission-critical moments in their day-to-day jobs every day. They treat these checklists seriously. They do not pay lip-service to checklists. Why? Because they know they save lives.
Needless risks businesses take every day…
OK so nobody is going to die because you or one of your team ignored a checklist or didn’t take the checklist seriously, but can you really afford not to take checklists deadly seriously. Click here.
5. Checklists can keep your business alive and help it thrive.
Set up and insist on the use of a checklist for the business critical tasks in your business. Even if people know what they should be doing.
It was proved in the slums of Karachi, Pakistan in the 1990s that soap and a 3-point checklist really can save lives. Read more here.
6. Why are checklists so effective? Why does such a simple communicative tool have such a powerful impact? Read the stories in this 4-page business breakthrough here and you will see the true value of a checklist.
7. Making checklists can seem tedious and boring, but the practice can save your business by improving efficiency and minimising mistakes and can lead to real change as it did for Stephen Luby in Karachi. Click here to learn more
8. Checklists don’t need to include every single step of a process. You still want people to be able to think for themselves. Instead, a checklist should highlight those steps that are super important and yet often so obvious or simple that they’re missed. Click here to read how the checklist worked for a Surgeon as it was simple and easy to follow and why checklists are vital to the success of your business
9. Getting your people to use checklists might be tough, getting them to use them in a disciplined way will be even tougher. Checklists require discipline and teamwork. But the habit that repetitive use of a checklist will create will overcome stress and impose order on your everyday business environment. Click here to read more on the importance of checklists for your team.
10. Your business will avoid mistakes and see results improve when you habitually use checklists on your business critical tasks.
Lead from the front. Regularly use checklists yourself and been seen doing it by your team, demonstrate the success that you have achieved by using a checklist.
Make checklists habitual and you’ll see improved standards and improved results. Click here to read how.
11. As a business owner you need to set the example to the rest of your team, prove the business benefits that come from habitually using checklists and your team will be encouraged by your results and will follow.
You will then be well on the way to making checklists a valuable and essential part of running your business. Click here to learn how to turn a checklist into a habit.
12. Choose a business critical task today that needs a checklist, build a checklist for this task, test and adjust it as necessary with your team and then make disciplined use of your checklist a habit…. Sounds simple… It is… read how here.
13. It pays to use a checklist every time you perform a business critical task. A checklist helps prevent mistakes, drives standards up and drives results up too. Click here now for proof that checklists can grow your business and your team and how to implement them with ease.
14. A checklist is important when you are new to a job and the tasks are referred to on a daily basis but actually the checklist is more important when you are familiar with your job as you think you know what you are doing and simple everyday tasks then get missed. Click here to learn why and how to successfully implement a business critical habitual checklist.
15. How do you attempt to deal with a complex situation? Have a checklist in place. It won't solve all problems in all situations but it may well prevent an emergency becoming a disaster. In his book ‘The checklist manifesto’ Atul Gwande investigates how checklists are used in the building trade, medicine and for flying aircraft among other examples. It is fascinating how a simple list can eliminate common errors and how checklists can be used to help people deal with such situations as aircraft crash landings. For more on the serious value of checklists please read here.
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1. Remove the stress of having to remember by using checklists in your business. We use checklists in our personal life all the time, almost without realising it, why would we not do the same in our business. Treat checklists as a fundamental business driver and manage your business critical tasks with efficiency and on time.
Click here to read a 4-page business breakthrough that clearly demonstrates the success of a well-used checklist.
2. Get a good night’s sleep and avoid the stress of the late night panics by using a checklist in your business
You know those near-misses or mistakes that jolt you into wide-eyed disbelief or give you a cold sweat at night. Those near misses or mistakes that if you used a checklist would not happen. Read here the simplicity and essentialism of a business critical checklist… and sleep well again
3. You wouldn’t dream of climbing on board an aircraft if you knew the pilot was going to ignore the pre-flight checklist because she’d ‘done it before’.
Would you allow a surgeon to operate on you or one of your children if he didn’t follow the recommended World Health Authority (WHO) surgical checklist that has saved many many lives in many many countries?
So why do businesses allow certain mission critical jobs in their firm without a checklist. Click here to read why if checklists are good enough for even the smartest people, they are good enough for you…
4. Pilots and surgeons are some of the brightest and best trained people on our planet. But they use checklists at mission-critical moments in their day-to-day jobs every day. They treat these checklists seriously. They do not pay lip-service to checklists. Why? Because they know they save lives.
Needless risks businesses take every day…
OK so nobody is going to die because you or one of your team ignored a checklist or didn’t take the checklist seriously, but can you really afford not to take checklists deadly seriously. Click here.
5. Checklists can keep your business alive and help it thrive.
Set up and insist on the use of a checklist for the business critical tasks in your business. Even if people know what they should be doing.
It was proved in the slums of Karachi, Pakistan in the 1990s that soap and a 3-point checklist really can save lives. Read more here.
6. Why are checklists so effective? Why does such a simple communicative tool have such a powerful impact? Read the stories in this 4-page business breakthrough here and you will see the true value of a checklist.
7. Making checklists can seem tedious and boring, but the practice can save your business by improving efficiency and minimising mistakes and can lead to real change as it did for Stephen Luby in Karachi. Click here to learn more
8. Checklists don’t need to include every single step of a process. You still want people to be able to think for themselves. Instead, a checklist should highlight those steps that are super important and yet often so obvious or simple that they’re missed. Click here to read how the checklist worked for a Surgeon as it was simple and easy to follow and why checklists are vital to the success of your business
9. Getting your people to use checklists might be tough, getting them to use them in a disciplined way will be even tougher. Checklists require discipline and teamwork. But the habit that repetitive use of a checklist will create will overcome stress and impose order on your everyday business environment. Click here to read more on the importance of checklists for your team.
10. Your business will avoid mistakes and see results improve when you habitually use checklists on your business critical tasks.
Lead from the front. Regularly use checklists yourself and been seen doing it by your team, demonstrate the success that you have achieved by using a checklist.
Make checklists habitual and you’ll see improved standards and improved results. Click here to read how.
11. As a business owner you need to set the example to the rest of your team, prove the business benefits that come from habitually using checklists and your team will be encouraged by your results and will follow.
You will then be well on the way to making checklists a valuable and essential part of running your business. Click here to learn how to turn a checklist into a habit.
12. Choose a business critical task today that needs a checklist, build a checklist for this task, test and adjust it as necessary with your team and then make disciplined use of your checklist a habit…. Sounds simple… It is… read how here.
13. It pays to use a checklist every time you perform a business critical task. A checklist helps prevent mistakes, drives standards up and drives results up too. Click here now for proof that checklists can grow your business and your team and how to implement them with ease.
14. A checklist is important when you are new to a job and the tasks are referred to on a daily basis but actually the checklist is more important when you are familiar with your job as you think you know what you are doing and simple everyday tasks then get missed. Click here to learn why and how to successfully implement a business critical habitual checklist.
15. How do you attempt to deal with a complex situation? Have a checklist in place. It won't solve all problems in all situations but it may well prevent an emergency becoming a disaster. In his book ‘The checklist manifesto’ Atul Gwande investigates how checklists are used in the building trade, medicine and for flying aircraft among other examples. It is fascinating how a simple list can eliminate common errors and how checklists can be used to help people deal with such situations as aircraft crash landings. For more on the serious value of checklists please read here.
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BLOG 1 - Remove the stress of having to remember by using checklists in your business
We have all used checklists in the past and will use them in the future.
As a business owner there will have been a time within your business when a checklist meant that something that might have been missed wasn’t.
That deadline that may have slipped but didn’t because of a checklist.
Checklists are part of our everyday life, we make shopping lists, holiday lists, Christmas lists and if we are all honest when anything major happens in our personal lives it comes with a list…
Getting Married, moving house or having a baby – to ensure that nothing is missed and more importantly we don’t encounter the stress of having to remember we make lists.
Your business is at risk if you do not take the importance of checklists seriously.
Checklists can help you get, and stay, on top of important projects and piles of tasks or decisions.
Checklists mean that you make sure that your tasks are written down all in one place so you don't forget anything important.
And by prioritising your business critical tasks, you plan the order in which you'll do them, so that you can tell what needs your immediate attention, and what you can leave until later.
Click here to learn more.
BLOG 2 - Would you allow a surgeon to operate on your without a WHO checklist?
You wouldn’t dream of climbing on board an aircraft if you knew the pilot was going to ignore the pre-flight checklist because she’d ‘done it before’.
Would you allow a surgeon to operate on you or one of your children if he didn’t follow the recommended World Health Authority (WHO) surgical checklist that has saved many many lives in many many countries?
So why do businesses allow certain mission critical jobs in their firm to happen without the pedantic, disciplined, committed approach to checklists that airline pilots and surgeons have?
Pilots and surgeons are some of the brightest and best trained people on our planet. But they use checklists at mission-critical moments in their day-to-day jobs every day. They treat these checklists seriously. They do not pay lip-service to checklists. Why? Because they know they save lives.
Needless risks businesses take every day…
OK so nobody is going to die because you or one of your team ignored a checklist or didn’t take the checklist seriously.
However, you run the risk of losing business or losing your reputation if you miss certain mission critical tasks.
Can you really afford not take checklists deadly seriously? Click here for more.
BLOG 3 - Are you ready to start seeing checklists as a critical part of the success of your business?
You, me, everybody would prefer not to follow a checklist, yet they keep us alive in many walks of life. Checklists can keep your business alive too and help it thrive.
Set up and insist on the use of a checklist for the business critical tasks in your business. Even if people know what they should be doing.
It was proved in the slums of Karachi, Pakistan in the 1990s that soap and a 3-point checklist really can save lives.
All the local water sources were contaminated with sewage. 1 in 10 children died before they were five years old. Diarrhoea was a major cause.
A young public health worker, Stephen Luby, had an idea that anti-bacterial soap might help. The idea failed, Anti-bacterial soap was no better than normal soap, but his test achieved a better use of soap and did reduce cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia because it made the use of soap more systematic. The checklist they then implemented was a simple as:
· Wet both hands completely
· Lather well
· Rinse all soap off
Simple and obvious – but in the slums of Karachi it was life changing.
Can you really afford to ignore even a simple 3-point checklist – to read more about the success of a business critical checklist click here.
BLOG 4 - Do you really want your business critical tasks to happen without a checklist?
To begin with using a checklist may feel alien to you but even if you think you know which tasks are to be completed on a daily basis only the use of a checklist can guarantee that 1 or more of them is not missed.
Checklists are even used by the cleverest of people. A renowned surgeon was asked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help save lives in operating theatres all over the world. After looking at a variety of alternatives the simple ‘Surgery safety checklist’ became a WHO directive.
Every week this checklist was used in surgical theatres and prevented missed steps that could have caused disaster, in one operation the ‘Pre Op’ checklist actually saved someone’s life.
You would think that very clever people like Surgeons would not need a checklist, but they do, we all do.
Checklists work, they work when you take them seriously, follow them religiously and make the use of them for your business critical tasks an essential and habitual part of you working life.
To read more about the importance of checklists and how the prevent mistakes and drive up standards click here.
BLOG 5 - Time to stop losing sleep over near misses (or worse) in your business...
Your business will avoid mistakes and see results improve when you habitually use checklists on your business critical tasks.
Lead from the front. Regularly use checklists yourself and been seen doing it by your team, demonstrate the success that you have achieved by using a checklist.
If you set the example, then your team will be encouraged by your results and will follow.
You will then be well on the way to making checklists a valuable and essential part of running your business.
Here are 4 helping hands to get you started with the power of checklists:
1) Choose the business critical task that needs a checklist.
2) Build a checklist for your chosen business critical task. Remember keep it simple, if this is the first time your team has used a checklist you don’t want to overwhelm them with complexity.
3) Test and adjust your checklist accordingly with your people as you begin the project. This is a natural and evolving path, plans change and issues occur. Remember as long as you have a checklist in place and you are clear on your end game then things can change along the way.
4) Make disciplined use of your checklist a habit. Once this task has been completed your people will be able to see the results and simplicity a checklist brings. Make sure they are then part of your working environment. Make them habitual.
Click here to read the intrinsic value a well-managed checklist will bring to your business.
BLOG 6 - Make checklists a habitual part of running your business and achieve record results
It pays to use a checklist every time you perform a business critical task. A checklist helps prevent mistakes, drives standards up and drives results up too.
A checklist is important when you are new to a job and the tasks are referred to on a daily basis but actually the checklist is more important when you are familiar with your job as you think you know what you are doing and simple everyday tasks then get missed.
Start by seeing checklists as a fundamental part of running your business well.
If you would like more insights into the importance, success and value of checklists in the working environment then check out Atul Gwande’s book ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ as well as being a really good read he offers numerous real life examples of where checklists have proved to be real ‘light bulb’ moments in many areas of business.
Plus, Gwande takes you on a journey while he develops a checklist that is now being used in operating theatres around the world.
To make your business more successful with the daily use of checklists click here now.
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You know those near misses or mistakes that jolt you into wide eyed disbelief or give you a cold sweat at 3am?
Those near misses or mistakes that, if people do what they should do, would never happen?
Keeping a properly structured 'business critical' checklist sounds simple enough. And yet...
...it’s surprising how many business owner's fail to insist their team use them at all, never mind use them effectively!In this latest edition of Business Bitesize you will learn:
- how to start looking at 'business critical' checklists as a simple, rational system-thinking approach to complex processes.
- how a 3-point checklist in the slums of Karachi halved the incidents of diarrhoeaand pneumonia and saved thousands of childrens' lives.
- the proof that even the smartest people rely on checklists and use them as a fundamental part of their working day... everyday.
STOP treating checklists as something you use occasionally with new people or new tasks.
START using checklists habitually to drive up standards and improve performance in your 'business critical' tasks
Are you ready to implement a 'business critical' checklist to safeguard the future of your business?
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