Team Galapathy

I try to streamline all processes associated with domestic business air travel. It helps to reserve my energy for more important things during the day. Pre-booking airport parking is one of those activities. I normally take a printout of the booking (yes, still a bit old-fashioned with certain things) and save the booking into my […]

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring a simplified framework on how to improve productivity in our personal lives. We’ve adopted tools, techniques and concepts that have helped the manufacturing sector to shift performance and productivity, for decades. Having explored how to identify opportunities first, then effectively prioritising initiatives to work on, today

We are familiar with the four stages of developing a new competency: unconsciously unaware; consciously unaware; consciously aware; and unconsciously aware. I’m living through this theory right now with my older son who recently got his learner driver’s licence – the L Plates. After about five hours into coaching him, I’ve gained two valuable insights:

I seem to have hit a patch of bad luck with my recent interstate travels: the flights that I’m on are frequently getting cancelled or delayed. It is even more frustrating especially on a Friday evening when I look forward to getting home to my family. Friday nights are often pizza nights, and my wife

One morning recently, I was in a queue for a coffee. I was observing the process and noticed that they had systemised it quite well. They had two extra people to help the barista – one before and one after. The person in front of the barista was taking the orders and placing the cups

If there is ever a need to improve our shopfloor team engagement, it’s now!  Why? In my conversations with Supply Chain leaders every week, I’ve heard the following to be what’s holding back businesses right now: Shortage of skilled labour. In fact, finding labour in general is tough now.Teams are constantly running with less people

Have you heard the joke regarding our affinity towards numbers? “There are three types of people in the world. Those who can count and those who can’t”. People either love Excel or loathe it. When we improve productivity and performance, we expect the numbers to tell us that profitability is increasing. One of the most

We are generally good at coaching, mentoring, and advising others. We tend to be kind, generous and forgiving. However, when it comes to critiquing ourselves, a lot of us tend to be quite the opposite. We are less forgiving, unkind, and pretty tough on ourselves. Some of us often tend to take a long time

How many business improvement initiatives have you started, only to find yourself in one of the following scenarios a few team meetings later: •    drifted away from the original issue. •    bitten off too much and struggling wrap up. •    unable to demonstrate if you have actually made a difference (improvement) or

A few years ago, as I was speaking with the production scheduler of a manufacturing client, something caught my attention – printed production paperwork on her desk with varying numbers of “URGENT” stamps on them. Some had one URGENT stamp, some had two and a few had even three! She explained that the number of