EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION PROGRAM A Step-By-Step Plan to Get Hundreds of Employee Suggestions from Your Workforce In Three Weeks Or Less!   "Bright Ideas Campaign" Getting employees' ideas is no longer an option. If your organization is going to be competitive, it is mandatory you involve the ideas and suggestions of everyone in your organization. Getting employees involved not only yields valuable suggestions, but also the increased morale and retention of workers who want to feel they are valued and being listened to. This results in a more productive and satisfying work environment. Peter Drucker said, "One has to assume, first, that the individual human being at work knows better than anyone else what makes him or her more productive . . .even in routine work the only true expert is the person who does the job."    Every organization needs to make improvements, but finding effective ways to do this can be difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Yet, many ignore the untapped resource of their employees who know their jobs better than any expert.   Use This Program to: Initiate a highly effective, high energy, and motivating suggestion program Give your current suggestion program a shot-in-the-arm Target specific aspects of your business such as process improvement, safety, employee retention, cost reduction, or customer satisfaction Improve communication Get 100% participation from the bottom of the organization to the top Kick off a new program or product Easy to Initiate, Fast, and Powerfully Effective The Bright Idea Campaign is a fast, focused, and fun way to capture hundreds of ideas to improve productivity while also involving and engaging your staff and employees. It is not really a program, but a high energy motivational campaign.  Here is a quote from a participant,   "I have seen a lot of suggestion programs come and go over the years, and frankly I was a little skeptical in the beginning. However, this one was different. Seeing senior management actually participating in the campaign showed me they were truly serious about my ideas."   As a management consultant, I have worked with hundreds of organizations in designing employee suggestion and engagement programs. Years ago, I was the Director of Innovation for the U.S. Army Medical Department. I was responsible for managing the ideas of 72,000 people. Because of our success, Graduate students from Japan came to the U.S. to interview us on ways to improve employee engagement in Japan. As a result, I have taken what I have learned over the past 25 years and created the most effective way to boost innovation and capture thousands of ideas and suggestions from your workforce. Most Employee Suggestion Programs Don't Work!   The Bright Idea Campaign is different than any other suggestion program available. It is an innovative way of sparking the creativity of the workforce, and providing a proven system of capturing hundreds of ideas in a short period of time. With most suggestion box programs, results are sporadic and slow in coming. Many good ideas are screened out, lay dormant, or overlooked and ignored by supervisors. Not with this campaign! On the other hand, the Bright Idea Campaign takes a different twist. The goal is to get at least one idea from each person during the campaign. First line supervisors cannot say "no" to any of the ideas. Each idea is evaluated and each participant receives instantaneous recognition for each idea submitted. After the initial three-week period, employees continue to provide ideas and suggestions for long-term organizational improvement.   The Bright Idea Campaign can be used as a stand a lone program or compliment an existing suggestion program.   The Idea Campaign Will Improve Trust, Communication, and Confidence A Towers Perrin survey shows employees don't have strong confidence in senior management's ability to inspire and lead. For instance: Just 41% think their senior management supports new ideas and new ways of doing things. Just 37% think senior management tries to be visible and accessible to employees. Only 36% think senior management effectively communicates the reasons for important business decisions. And a mere third believe senior management communicates openly and honestly to employees. "These findings are particularly worrisome because leadership in the workplace is one of the key drivers of employee engagement. Employees are looking for guidance, direction, vision and clarity -- from both top management and their direct supervisors -- and they don't believe either are delivering to the extent they would like,"  according to a Towers Perrin executive.    Boost Employee Motivation and Enjoy 100% Employee Involvement!   Do you remember the last time someone thanked you for your ideas?  How did it make you feel? Just imagine if you could multiply that powerful feeling to all of your workforce?      This campaign has a proven track record in hundreds of companies. If you follow the guide carefully, you can insure a tremendous result, both in the quality and quantity of ideas and the subsequent motivation of your workforce.   The Campaign is designed to promote an all out search for improvement opportunities. This search will focus on five areas: 1. Cost Reduction 2. Continuous Improvement 3. Problem Identification 4. Customer Retention and Satisfaction 5. New Ideas that Generate Revenue   Innovate Your Organization   There are many reasons to run a Bright Star Idea Campaign.  Whether you are trying to cut costs or improve job satisfaction, this campaign will bring in hundreds of new ideas and innovation.   Your workforce has good ideas--they want to be engaged and involved. This campaign is one of the most effective ways to capture their ideas and suggestions.   Idea Campaigns have many uses. Companies use this campaign to kick off a new program or a new way of doing business. The campaign drives involvement and commitment from the lowest parts of the business to the top.  The ideas your front-line workers submit will not only be worth millions of dollars in cost savings, but also generate a positive change in attitude toward your company. Proven Track Record With Significant Results: Direct Benefits: Improve customer satisfaction Creates a feeling of empowerment  Improves job satisfaction  Creates ownership and trust  Captures hundreds of new ideas in 3-4 weeks 30-40% of the ideas generated can be implemented immediately by front-line supervisors Improves motivation and morale  Reduces costs  Improves internal communication  Creates a positive attitude  Improves profitability  Results pay for the cost of the program  Low risk, high payoff  Typical Results: Harley-Davidson saved $3,000,000 in 30 days  The U.S. Army got 530 ideas in 3 weeks from 200 people Holly Farms identified $1,000,000 in savings  Eaton Corporation gained 944 ideas from 113 people reaching 100%participation  Parker Hannifin Corporation got 499 ideas from 103 employees  National Semiconductor saved $3,600,000 using idea campaigns  The U.S. Park Service made over 12,000 suggestions with an approval rate of 75 percent  Expect 100% Employee Participation! The Bright Idea Campaign emphasizes one principle -- focus on your job and look for as many improvements as possible. By doing this, you accomplish three things: 1. You allow everyone to get involved and thereby create a receptive atmosphere for change, innovation, and continuous improvement. 2. You open up communication channels and identify opportunities for changes for the better 3. The small ideas motivate and energize larger ideas with more significant impact. Build Teamwork and Co-Operation It is this receptive atmosphere that allows ideas to become improvement realities. The same people who last month may have ignored requests for co-operation are now enthusiastic and team oriented. Things get done faster than ever before. Communication on all levels improves and bottlenecks are unplugged. The goal is to get people to look at their jobs, work together, and communicate in a collaborative manner. Employees are asked to suggest cost saving ideas and ideas to improve quality and customer satisfaction. It is important to get people to consider even the smallest ideas that can improve the overall organization. Included in the Bright Idea Campaign are... Roles and responsibilities of key individuals Barriers you have to overcome to achieve a successful campaign How to get support from management The complete step-by-step actions needed for a new program Dozens of ways to get employees to create and share new ideas Suggestions on how to reward people for their ideas so they are encouraged to offer more Guidelines on how to manage the "Top Gun" Implementation Team Sample Announcement Letters Sample Acknowledgment Letter Sample Idea Form Hints to consider from other idea campaigns Flow charts Idea Score Sheets to simplify your program responsibilities Day-by-day calendar and week-by-week instructions Communication and meeting schedules Step-by-Step guidance for planning and launching a three-week, intensive campaign to involve all your employees View Complete Table of Contents With this Campaign Guidebook Kit you get... --Day-by-day guidance in all the actions you must take to deploy a highly successful suggestion program or employee involvement program   --Numerous activities you and your employees can get involved in to stimulate the continuous generation of new ideas   --Dozens of suggestions and steps to take to keep your program moving along with eager employee participation Over 20 years of research and experience in suggestion and employee involvement programs went into creating this program   ORDER the Bright Idea Campaign program and turn your organization into a great place to work. Reasons to ORDER the Bright Idea Campaign   1) Become an Engagement Hero! The results generated from this campaign are so powerfully successful you will gain the admiration and respect from those in your business.   2) Revitalize Your Current Suggestion Program. The campaign can be used to compliment your current suggestion program or used as a stand-a-lone program.   3) Build Teamwork and Enhance Communication. Many organizations say this is more like a motivation program than anything else. It helps to tear down barriers between departments, stimulates creativity, and improves communication. One person told me, "I now know my company cares. They asked me for my ideas!"   4) Saves Money. Organizations with active employee suggestion programs report the average savings from employee ideas is more than $1,000 per year, per employee. 5) Easy to Implement. Our complete instructions and guidelines provide a foolproof system for you to launch a successful suggestion and employee involvement program.  If you need us, we can also help you over the phone.   5) Enjoy 100% Employee Participation. No other program available will get people as excited and engaged as this one. If you follow the directions and guidelines we can almost guarantee you will get ideas from every employee in your organization.   6) Boost Employee Morale. When you encourage employees to share their ideas...and when the employees participate in implementing their ideas...their morale goes up. This improves productivity and lowers costly employee turnover.   7) Self Contained Program. Everything you need to start a high powered suggestion and employee campaign is provided. The only things you may add are the prizes and awards to give out to your employees.   8) Sarbanes-Oxley Act Compliant.   Employers’ need for suggestion systems has increased due to new government regulations and other developments in the post-Enron business environment.  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 mandates all publicly held companies have a mechanism in place by April 26, 2003 to enable employees to submit confidential and anonymous messages to the audit committee of that company.  Our systems provide employees a safe way to address issues internally.    Greg Smith, MS   If you have any questions or any doubt in your mind about the powerful effectiveness of this campaign, I encourage you to pick up the phone and call me directly.   800-821-2487 770-860-9464   Not convinced? Click here to order the preview DVD & Kit Who Is Greg Smith?   Greg Smith is the President  of Chart Your Course International Inc. His 30 years of leadership and consulting experience have helped propel him as one of the nation's leading authorities on leadership, employee retention, and employee engagement.  He has traveled to and spoken in over 26 countries and developed training programs for some of the "Top 100 Best Places to Work."   Greg shows executives and business owners how to become better leaders, grow their businesses and transform their organizations into productive places to work. Greg's complete bio.   Featured In . . .   The Complete Bright Ideas "Do-It-Yourself" Campaign Kit The Bright Ideas Campaign Includes:   The Bright Ideas Campaign Facilitator Guide   The Facilitator Guide is the heart and soul of how to run a successful Bright Ideas Campaign.  We provide a complete day-by-day, step-by-step plan of action.  The Guide shows how to organize the Campaign and how to get the support and cooperation of everyone needed to make it a success.  The entire Campaign can be coordinated by a member of your staff.  The Facilitator Guide includes step-by-step and day-by-day instructions for planning and launching a three-week, intensive campaign to involve all your employees.    The Facilitator Guide Includes: Step-by-step instructions for planning and launching an intensive campaign to involve all your employees Roles and responsibilities of key individuals How to get support and involvement from upper management Dozens of ways to get employees to create and share new ideas Suggestions on how to reward people for their ideas so they are encouraged to offer more Instructions on how to create and manage the Implementation Team Sample Announcement Letters Sample Acknowledgment Letters Sample suggestion forms Successful ideas and hints to consider from other idea campaigns Flow charts Idea Score Sheets to simplify your program responsibilities Day-by-day calendar and week-by-week instructions Communication and meeting schedules Activities you and your employees can get involved in to stimulate the continuous generation of new ideas Log sheets and tracking forms Much more . . . Bright Ideas Campaign DVD.  See first hand how the Campaign generated hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cost savings ideas in one organization and totally transformed the morale and motivation of its workforce. You will hear from the HR manager, Idea Leader, project manager and the Director of Continuous Improvement.    Two Powerful Books: You receive two of Greg's books including, The New Leader: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace and TNT: Dynamic Ways to Reward, Energize and Motivate Your Teams.   Idea Submission Form.  No need to spend the time and reinvent the wheel.  We provide you a file allowing you to print as many forms as you wish. The form makes it simple to collect and categorize your ideas and suggestions.    Bright Ideas Resource CD.  The CD contains four different sets of PowerPoint slides that outline the BIC process.  The slides make it simple and easy to train your Idea Team, Implementation Team and your executives. The CD also includes MS Word documents making your administrative process simple. Telephonic Coaching and Campaign Management As an option, we can also provide support, advice and consulting to help you initiate your Campaign.  Services will be delivered over the phone to one or more individuals as needed.  We will help you:  Establish the objectives of the Campaign Help organize the actions of the executive team Discuss the proper way to recognize contributors.  Should you use financial rewards or not? Talk about how to get maximum employee participation Discuss, define, and design roles and responsibilities Discuss the best way for employees to submit ideas  (Email, web or paper?) Plan various meetings needed to kick off and manage the Campaign Help decide how ideas and suggestions will be submitted, managed, and tracked Discuss how to sort and categorize idea submissions Discuss how to use visible displays Help design and discuss the role of the Implementation Team         Selection of Implementation Team          Discuss other forms of motivation and incentives to accelerate the Campaign Suggest ways to gain favorable publicity and promotion How to measure ROI IdeaTracker Software (Optional). The IdeaTracker software keeps track of all the ideas submitted during your suggestion and employee involvement campaign. Click here for more information        Three Different Idea Campaign Options to Choose From Call us at 770-860-9464 or 800-821-2487   Bright Ideas Campaign "Do-It-Yourself" Kit   The Bright Ideas Campaign is a multi-purpose campaign to target one or more of the following: Cost reduction Continuous improvement Problem identification Customer retention and satisfaction New product and service generation Safety improvement The Bright Ideas Campaign includes the instructions, training materials and facilitator guide to run your Campaign.  This allows you the ability to customize the Campaign to your requirements.    Contact us for more information   Call us at 770-860-9464 or 800-821-2487 for pricing options     BAD Idea Campaign "Buck-a-Day"   Focus: Cost reduction campaign Both the BAD and GOOD Idea programs come with all the materials, rewards, instructions, software and our support team to help you create a highly successful campaign. Contact us for more information   Call us at 770-860-9464 or 800-821-2487 for pricing options   Good Idea Campaign Focus: Customer satisfaction Both the BAD and GOOD Idea programs come with all the materials, rewards, instructions, software and our support team to help you create a highly successful campaign.   Contact us for more information   Call us at 770-860-9464 or 800-821-2487 for pricing options     Contact Us for More Information

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