Capturing employee suggestions and ideas engages and improves employee motivation, creating a more productive and satisfying work environment. Yet many ignore the untapped resource of their employees who know their jobs better than any expert. Our Idea Campaigns are different than typical employee suggestion programs. The Campaign is a proven way to capture hundreds of ideas to improve productivity, cut costs and drive improvements from the bottom up in a short time period. This unique Campaign captures ideas, drives involvement and identifies cost savings ideas from the bottom of the organization to the top. The ideas and suggestions you will obtain will improve your bottom line as well as create a high level of motivation and enthusiasm from your workforce. The Bright Ideas Campaign has been used by hundreds of organizations with proven results. It is not a "program," but a self-contained, high performance Campaign that can revert to an on-going employee suggestion program for your organization. See more... http://goo.gl/sN4UT

1. Employee Engagement and Suggestion System
Brightideascampaign.com
Greg Smith
Chart Your Course
International
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770-860-9464

2. Founder and President of Chart Your Course
International Inc.
Author of Nine Books:
The New Leader: Bringing Creativity and
Innovation to the Workplace
Director of Innovation and Strategic
Planning, U.S. Army Medical Department
Examiner, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award (2002-2004)
Top-Ten "Rising Stars" in Human Resource
Management - HRE Magazine
Located in Atlanta, GA

3. Chart Your Course International
Talent
Employee Management
Engagement Employee
Retention
Leadership Customer
Development Service
SOLUTIONS Culture
Change
Training &
Management
Development
Development Strategic
Planning

4. "Managers usually overlook the
company’s most valuable asset and
source of information - their employees.
As the economy slows, creative
organizations can find new ways to drive
revenue and reduce costs by seeking
employee suggestions."
Marsha Myers
Lee Hecht Harrison

5. Fact #1: Just 41% of employees think their
senior management supports new ideas and
new ways of doing things.
Fact #2: A whopping 60% of employees think
their organization's employee suggestion
program does not exist or is ineffective.

7. Idea Iceberg Typical
Suggestion
Programs
How Do
Idea
You Tap Campaigns
These
Ideas?

8. Why do you want to have
an employee suggestion
program?

9. Minimal
Participation
Loses Momentum
Too Long to Get
Results
Inertia/Resistance
to Change
Lack of Focus
Which of these
are true in your
case?

11. Short Term – High Intensity
100% Participation
Small Ideas
Top Management Involvement
Targeted on Key Areas
Focus on Individual Jobs
One Idea Per Week
Fun and Friendly Competition
Instant Reward and Recognition
Non-Financial Rewards
Public Recognition

12. "The brain is a
wonderful organ.
It starts working
the moment we
wake up and
does not stop
until we enter
the office.”
Robert Frost
©2011 Chart Your Course
International Inc.

13. Most organizations are functioning at only
40-60% of their capacity – higher levels of
performance can be reached in
emergencies/crisis.
Peak
Performance
Crisis
Normal
Performance

14. Think of a time you experienced peak
performance and how people responded?
Breakthrough
Performance GM facing bankruptcy
Trauma in the ER
Response to 911
Katrina
Peak
Performance
Crisis
Normal
Performance
What were the key factors in the situation
that created the peak performance?

15. Targeted Idea Gathering:
Customer Satisfaction
Quality/Continuous
Improvement
Problem Identification
& Removal
Cost Reduction
Revenue Generation

16.  Bright Ideas Campaign
 BAD Idea Campaign (Self-contained)
 Good Idea Campaign (Self-contained)

17. Focus: Cost Reduction

18. Focus:
Customer
Satisfaction

20. Select
Commander
Implementation
D-Day
Team
Training Idea Leaders

21. D-Day
Pre-
Deployment
Week
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Idea Idea Idea
Gathering Gathering Gathering
Month 1 Month 2
Phase I Phase II Phase III
Pre-Campaign Idea Gathering Post Campaign
Preparation Duties

22. Proven process
Coaching and consulting
Customized strategy Brightideascampaign.com
Training via web seminars
Reward and recognition plan
Marketing and communication plan
Training materials

23. Commitment
Coordinator/Leadership
Infrastructure Brightideascampaign.com
Rewards
Marketing materials
Publicity

24. • Improved customer • Improves motivation
satisfaction and morale
• Creates empowerment • Reduces costs
• Improves job • Improves internal
satisfaction communication
• Creates ownership and • Creates a positive
trust attitude
• Captures hundreds of • Improves profitability
new ideas • Results pay for the cost
• 20-30% of the ideas of the program
can be implemented by • Low risk, high payoff
front-line supervisors

25. • WIKA captured over 1600 ideas from 600
employees in a 3-week Bright Ideas Campaign.
Overall, they generated over $425,000 in cost
savings ideas.
• Harley-Davidson saved $3,000,000 in 30 days
• The U.S. Army got 530 ideas in 3 weeks
• 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

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