Sept 21 - What’s on my desk ?
I had a busy weekend so a few items on my desk from last week.
Return address roll and dispenser - In last week’s studio session, I talked about how some non-profits are very good at understanding how to reallocate effort to a new tasks, but don’t always spend as much time assessing the impacts to the outcome from the activity where the effort was pulled. As the example, I talked about how I tried to reduce the amount of time we spent preparing envelopes. The new process, aided by a dispenser so we could apply labels with one hand, did save time and we were initially content with the change. Then we realized that many of the return labels were applied crooked. We feared those that received the letters would feel they were less thoughtful. Thus, we sacrificed speed to ensure the labels were applied cleanly.
Clipboard - I am coaching my son’s school soccer team this season. We had our first game over the weekend - and started off with a win! Based on the game, I want to make some adjustments to our practice activities for this week.
Blank Certificate Paper - Paper Source had packets of certificate paper on sale. I didn’t have anything specific in mind when I brought them, but thought I could use them for some type of recognition award. Expressing gratitude is a key habit that we want to maintain so these sheets seemed like a great opportunity to do that.