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Echelle de Grabowski - Grabowski's scale
Company analysis
Looking for more productivity & pleasure at work

- Boundary between professional life - private life

Does the employee possess a boundary between professional life & private life.

Having time to perform private activities 

Advantages : focus on work

Risks : employee burnout, employee inefficiency.

Fizemos has set up this as a a core value.

We recommend a training plan in order to help the employee successfully manage & and build this boundary

- Number of tools available

What are the number of tools available? IT tools or other tools.

Advantage : creativity and liberty to choose tools.

Risk : too many tools and problems to ensure info sharing or access

Loss of time accessing several tools.

We recommend investigating internally regarding the use of tools, following this investigation, reducing the number of tools

Ensuring a training plan in order to master the tools

- Number of distribution groups

What is the number of distribution groups

Advantage: clear definition of distribution lists at a top level.

Risk : indirect emails & and confusion, too many emails.

We recommend limiting the number of distribution groups & and always indicating an employee name, that will take the lead on this subject.

- Number of meetings

Does the number of meeting sufficient?

Does the number of meeting not too much?

Advantage: teamwork & brainstorming

Risk : loss of time

We recommend to reduce the number of meetings and reduce their time (up to 15 minutes)

- Number of emails received

Does the number of emails received is manageable by the employee?

Does the employee successfully manages their emails and answering to the tasks requested

Advantage : Info communication

Risk : not managing emails 

We recommend adding trainings to manage emails in a productive way

(12 days of time can be earned per year)

- Professional goals

Does the professional objectives have been clearly setup?

Are they realistic in agreement with the available key performance operators?

Advantage : employee motivation

Risks : employee demotivation, departure

We recommend managing this point during human resources interviews, but also having an open-door policy because the employee may need to express some doubts further.

- Professional tools

Does the tools provided are professional? 

Do they have some bugs or inconsistencies?

Are they helpful in order that the teams progress and the company growth?

Advantage : productivity & happiness

Risks : confusing tool , alert fatigue (too much notifications)

We recommend to adapt the tools depending of your business use cases

- Comfort

Does the employee is cumfortable in her/his work, physically and emotionnaly? 

Does the current work planning is well setup?

Does the employee have a good flex office plan? (Mix between home office & work office , if home office is applicable)

Advantage : productivity rise & employee fidelity rise

Risks : not understanding that an Office Worker & Remote Worker have different aspirations 

We recommend adaptation according to each employee's profile 

- Connection quality

Does the employee have a good connexion quality?

Advantage : productivity

Risks : credibility loss during important meetings, delays.

- Adaptable procedures

Do the procedures are sufficiently setup & understood by the employees?

Do the procedures are not too much in order not to kill the creativity of the employee?

Advantages: moving fast and secure operations.

Risks: monotonous work.

- Possibility of trainings

Does the employee have access to a training plan, are they sufficiently skilled for the mission?

Advantages : employee skilled for the job, employee that feel valued.

Risks: delays, glass ceiling effect.

We recommend an initial training pack + and training alignment each quarter or at least during the annual interview.

- Consideration of ideas

Are the ideas considered within the employee's team & and company and valued, eventually financially?

Advantages: an idea capital is built at a bottom-up

Risks: employee demotivation

- Adaptability

What are the adaptability plans proposed to the employees?

What are the emergency plans?

Advantages: market adaptability, employee confidence

Risks : Employees disturbed if adaptation issues are observed.

We recommend adapting policies according to the Employee Personae (Deskers, Hybriders & Remoters)

- Access to information

Does the employee have access to sufficient info in order to do her/his job?

Does the info not too much or fragmented?

Advantages : actionable operations for the employee, autonomy

Risks : Repetitive questions, problems to access to the info. Access to sensitive info without any prerequisite training

We recommend transparency

- Trust

Does the employee feel trusted?

Advantage : employee fidelity & loyalty

Risks : loss of work sense 

- Phone or Videoconference skills

Does the employee able to manage a phone or videoconference with the customer?

Advantage : autonomy

Risks : dependence on other colleagues to resolve situations

At Fizemos, we propose training in order to propose this skill to your employees.

Quotes about Training

"Training is like safety. As long as there are no problems, it doesn't cost much and why invest in it because it is expensive" Antoine Grabowski

"Teaching is not a job, It is a pillar of the society" - Marilia Cervi

"Teachers opens the door, but you must enter by yourself"  Chinese proverb

 "Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand" Chinese proverb