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Planning even a small project can be quite difficult. Imagine you are at the stage where you are trying to estimate if your project can be completed by the target date set by your boss. You are just beginning to get feedback from some of the players involved and you have rough estimates of how long the individual project tasks are going to take. But the boss wants an estimate for when the project might be completed before the end of the day and he keeps changing the parameters.

Planning by hand using a calculator or even with a spreadsheet can be very difficult and repetitive. You have to contend with issues such as a day being only eight hours long, having a five day working week, and having special holidays all over the calendar. If the boss changed some parameter in the middle of your analysis, you would have to repeat so many calculations.

Since most of us already have computers, surely there is a software application around that can help in planning your project. Of course there is. MS Project can do the job. The only problem is that is quite expensive and your boss might not yet be ready to buy the software. Is there a cheaper solution? Of course there is. This is where OpenProj by Serena Software comes in. It is better than cheap. It is Free and Legal.

During our Project Management Courses, I encourage my students to bring their notebooks or laptops with OpenProj installed. I can guide them on how to use the software to analyze their existing projects or get them started in planning their new projects.

OpenProj by Serena Software is an open source application for desktop use. It is free and legal software that is easily downloadable. It is often used as a replacement for the pricey Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality and a user interface similar to Microsoft Project. It even opens existing MS Project files. I have often used OpenProj to create Gantts Chart and PERT charts. Of course Microsoft Project has a lot more functionality, but for most office projects OpenProj is enough.

About the Author

Rafael M. Pefianco MPM FAAPM

Rafael M. Pefianco is a highly respected practitioner in management training. He has worked both in the government and private sectors. He is an International trainer whose passion is to enable Filipino professionals to reach world class levels by sharing the insights he has gathered working and teaching abroad and in the Philippines. He is a Mechanical Engineer by training, Master in Project Management and a Fellow of the American Academyy of Project Management. Please click [Background of Raffy Pefianco] to read more about him.

Upcoming Seminars

1 Jun 2012, Friday, Basic Project Management – Cebu,

2 Jun 2012, Saturday, Basic Warehouse Operations and Inventory Control – Cebu,

5 Jun 2012, Tuesday, Fundamentals of Warehouse Management (A Lean Approach),

6 Jun 2012, Wednesday, Advanced Supervisory Skills: Tools and Techniques to Get the Work Done,

7 Jun 2012, Thursday, Office Improvement: Tools and Techniques,

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Designing and implementing the right compensation and benefit plan for any workforce is a complex task. Most employees are expecting more comprehensive compensation and benefit plan in that employers must be aware of these and must make informed decisions whenever they create such a plan considering that it has financial and administrative implications. In effect, the plan is an integral people management strategy that must facilitate in attracting, motivating and retaining the best talents and as a result, improving organizational effectiveness.

At the end of the seminar, the participants would be able to design and implement strategic employee compensation and benefits programs in their respective companies in order to attract, motivate, and retain the best workforce. Specifically, they would be able to:

• formulate strategies on employee compensation and benefits;
• promote pay internal equity and external comparability;
• establish remuneration scheme anchored on competency differentiation;
• enhance workplace productivity through performance-based pay modes; and
• design and implement employee benefits programs that address both the needs of workers and employers.

Opening Activities
Module 1: Employee Compensation and Benefits in Perspective
• Employee Compensation and Benefits Concepts
• Considerations in Employee Compensation and Benefits Planning
• Linking Employee Compensation and Benefits to Competitive Advantage
Module 2: Determining Pay for Position
• Revisiting the Organization Structure
• Job Assessment and Job Definition
• Job Evaluation and Classification
• The Salary Structure: Internal and External Equity Considerations
• Monitoring Compensation Costs
• Salary Administration Techniques
Module 3: Determining Pay for Person
Module 4: Determining Pay for Performance
• Performance Measures
• Types of Pay for Performance Schemes
Module 5: Designing Employee Benefits
• Design Parameters
• Costing Employee Benefits
• Trends in Employee Benefits
Module 6: Employee Benefits Communication and Administration
Module 7: Compensation and Employee Benefits for Special Situations
Module 8: Compensation and Employee Benefits Metrics
Integration
Closing Activities

Lecture, Discussion, Workshop, SLE, Case Study, Exercises

• Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Industry Productivity and Competitiveness of the University of the Philippines – School of Labor Industrial Relations
• An international lecturer as well as consultant cum trainer of more than 200 organization in the Philippines since 1987
• Issue editor of the Philippine Journal of Labor and Industrial Relations and member of the editorial board of the Philippine Journal on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• He obtained four degrees from the University of the Philippines: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology; Diploma in Industrial Relations; Master of Industrial Relations (Major in Human Resource Development); Ph.D. in Educational Anthropology
• An Accredited Voluntary Arbitrator of the Department of Labor and Employment; Dr. Binghay is recipient of various awards and recognitions such as the “HR Leadership Award” by the 2006 World HRD Congress held in India

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4. Teambuilding
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How you will Benefit

• Learn key steps in problem solving and decision making
• Learn how to apply a variety of decision making strategies
• Understand how to select and implement the best solution
• Increase your confidence in making decisions and implementing solutions

What you will Cover

1. Problem Solving Techniques

• Mind Maps
• Affinity Diagrams
• Cause and Effect Diagrams
• 5 Whys
• Process Mapping
• PDCA – The Deming Cycle

• Brainstorming
• 5W1H
• Pareto Analysis
• PM Analysis
• De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

Who should attend

This seminar is is ideal for managers, supervisors, team leaders, and potential leaders in the company.

Presenter

Rafael M. Pefianco MPM FAAPM

Rafael M. Pefianco is a highly respected practitioner in management training. He has worked both in the government and private sectors. He is an International trainer whose passion is to enable Filipino professionals to reach world class levels by sharing the insights he has gathered working and teaching abroad and in the Philippines. He is a Mechanical Engineer by training, Master in Project Management and a Fellow of the American Academyy of Project Management. Please click [Background of Raffy Pefianco] to read more about him.

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Pre-registration is required. Please email seminars@rmpconsultancy.com or call Chili Tel (632) 697 0767 Tel (632) 579-0233 Mobile (Globe) 0917-882-5578 Mobile (Smart) 0920-918-7358 for more information. A registration form can be downloaded from our website at http://rmpconsultancy.com/en/downloads/. Kindly email the registration form to seminars@rmpconsultancy.com.

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It is hard to imagine a business that does not need or cannot be improved. In our interconnected society we are getting used to instant communications and instant gratification.

Do you want to know where your best friend is right now? Check her latest tweet.

Do you want to see the latest episode of your favorite TV show? Just download it and skip all the annoying and time consuming advertisements.

What this interconnectedness means is that our customers are becoming used to and even expect perfect customer service all the time and every time. You just cannot afford a misstep. I have even seen customers in a fastfood restaurant walk away when the server is slow or cannot communicate clearly and quickly. This might already be happening to you. Your loyal customer just might move to the competition to get the service she expects and believes to deserve. You need to constantly improve your business to keep ahead of the competition.

Many structured approaches have been developed for process improvement. The solutions might be software or hardware based. Or, they might be in optimizing the steps or processes we use in our everyday business. At RMP Consultancy, we have been focused on LEAN and Six Sigma Methods as our primary approaches.

Whichever method you choose to use, the fundamental problem solving concepts require the following:

• Identify the goals
• Analyze the present state
• Develop a problem solving process
• Construct a plan
• Execute the plan

Measure the results

As a problem-solving process, the PDCA Cycle can be a very useful guide or approach. It outlines the steps needed to systematically and incrementally introduce improvements and measure their effectiveness.

The Plan–Do–Check–Act (PDCA) Cycle is the problem-solving process developed by Walter Shewhart, an American statistician sometimes called the father of statistical quality control. It was also called the Shewhart Cycle by W. Edwards Deming and subsequently called the Deming Cycle by other writers.

The PDCA Steps

1. Plan the process improvement work
2. Do the planned work
3. Check whether the improvements are working
4. Act to modify the process based on the lessons learned
5. Repeat until desired results are achieved

Conclusion

PDCA is your guide in your journey to achieve incremental improvement, or Kaizen as it is called in Japanese. It is part of the overall total quality management (TQM) process. It may not be as elegant as a high impact innovation, but it is a steady way to improve your business. Use it.

About the Author

Raffy Pefianco has a wide experience in retail, distribution and manufacturing management having run or consulted for chains of specialty stores for many years. He is currently focused on providing training and consulting to several of the largest companies in the Philippines and regularly runs public and in-house seminars on supply chain management.

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