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    Effective SOPs
    Effective SOPs
    Effective SOPs
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    Effective SOPs

    By Giles Johnston

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    Do your SOPs work for your business?

    Standard Operating Procedures, or SOPs, are an essential part of any business to ensure that quality and consistency occur like clockwork amidst the busy-ness of day to day working.

    Unfortunately SOPs are often neglected in terms of their importance and this short book can help you to get so much more out of your SOPs by making them part of your day to day working as opposed to a document that gets filed away, never to be looked at again!

    Whether you are new to SOPs or have come across this book as part of your lean manufacturing journey, the ideas contained in this practical guide can help your business whether you are primarily administrative in nature, service orientated, or manufacturing based.

    This book covers:
    A refresher on how SOPs can benefit your business.
    The idea of writing pairs to write more effective SOPs.
    Creating a ‘SOP map’ to better use SOPs in an ongoing way.
    Linking your daily routines to your SOPs
    And more...

    Also included with this book is a link to five downloadable templates that you can use immediately whether you need a format for your SOPs to get you started, or something to review to get some ideas on how you could modify your existing format.

    Download your sample now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGiles Johnston
    Release dateOct 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301698516
    Effective SOPs
    Author

    Giles Johnston

    Giles Johnston is a business improvement consultant who specialises in helping businesses improve their on time delivery performance. Giles is a Chartered Engineer and uses the same principles and problem solving ideas from his manufacturing background to help businesses in all sectors. Many of the tools and methods Giles uses to help his clients improve their performance have now made their way into written format and have now been published as ebooks. Giles is thankful to his clients who have pushed him to write down his views and ideas, making these books possible. Giles lives in the North East of England with his family.

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      Kept thinking about the Nietzsche quote “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” The writing style was a little hard to follow, but the general information was well laid out and helpful in conveying why SOP's are important in the operation of a business.
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      This is a good book. I recommand. it It helps me a lot.
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      Good book. Has handy references to utilize if you're new to writing SOPs
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    Effective SOPs - Giles Johnston

    Effective SOPs: Make Your Standard Operating Procedures Help Your Business Become More Productive

    Giles Johnston

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2013 Giles Johnston

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Disclaimer:

    The author of this book has tried to present the most accurate information to his knowledge at the time of writing. This eBook is intended for information purposes only. The author does not imply any results to those using this eBook, nor is he responsible for any results brought about by the usage of the information contained herein.

    No part of this book may be reprinted, electronically transmitted or reproduced in any format without the express written permission of the author.

    Table of Contents

    Do Your SOPs Help Your Business?

    The Importance of SOPs

    Why Do We Struggle with SOPs?

    Visual versus Text Only

    Who Should Write SOPs?

    SOP Writing Guidelines

    Creating the ‘SOP’ Map

    Using SOPs as a Training Aid

    Build SOPs into Your Routines

    Reviewing and Updating Your SOPs

    Stability of Processes

    Closing Remarks

    Downloads

    Links and Resources

    About Giles Johnston

    Do Your SOPs Help Your Business?

    Welcome.

    If you are reading this then I guess that you are as frustrated with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as I have been in the past. Whilst SOPs can make a huge difference to a business they can also be a relic of a past time or a symbol of a Quality Management System created to give an image of order. If any of this rings a bell with you then, by the end of this short book, you should be in a far better position with a more usable and more effective approach to using this simple but powerful tool.

    SOPs are designed to help us remember. Instead we forget to complete all of the pre-determined eight steps and we end up wondering why the quality of our work isn’t as great as it could be. This is even more evident within the office environment where we find that there are even more combinations and permutations compared to a manufacturing environment. We need to come up

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