by Allen P. Rathey
If you haven't heard of Team Cleaning® by now, you have probably been living in isolation.
Still, while most cleaning professionals have heard of Team Cleaning, far fewer understand it and can successfully implement the cost-saving, quality enhancing system.
The advanced two-day Team Cleaning seminar by Jim Harris, Sr. addresses this need.
What is Team Cleaning?
Team Cleaning uses a team of "specialists" with well-defined roles to achieve a simple, flexible and highly efficient cleaning program.
One key to successful deployment is workloading. Workloading involves dividing a facility into manageable units, then integrating specialists, tasks, frequencies and scheduling to accomplish the most cleaning-- at the highest quality and health levels--with the fewest resources.
According to Shelton Riley, facility services manager at Texas Christian University, "I would recommend that anybody in the cleaning business attend this seminar. The information helped us fully grasp the complete picture and benefits of Team Cleaning, showed us how to free up personnel while meeting the needs of our facility, and motivated us to start our pilot buildings."
Based on many years of successful Team Cleaning instruction, seminar leader Jim Harris, Sr. said, "I guarantee a cleaning operation will become more efficient, more productive and more effective when it successfully implements the concepts taught in this seminar!"
He enumerates the benefits of Team Cleaning workloading:
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Up to 30% increase in worker productivity
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Up to 50% reduction in labor, energy and equipment costs
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Improved indoor air quality
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Increased level of sanitation
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Higher employee morale and accountability
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Decreased employee turnover, absenteeism and injuries
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Simplified training - 75% less training time than area or zone cleaning
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More focused tasks and specialized staff
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Less wasted time and duplicated effort
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Improved customer satisfaction
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Decrease in inspection time by 75%
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Flexible staffing levels
Harris says the enhanced seminar program takes Team Cleaning instruction to a higher level.
"We're deploying a new field tested system of instruction to help attendees develop staffing requirements, create a training manual, and design an implementation plan during the session.
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"Among our objectives," Harris continues, "is to enable attendees to learn to evaluate existing operations, direct an effective implementation, and manage change and resistance."
As part of the hands-on seminar curriculum, attendees will be working with actual floor plans on both days, and will perform a complete facility set up including task schedules & job cards for all specialists.
Summary of Seminar Content
Day One Topics
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Breaking the Myth
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Critical Industry Issues
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Understanding Industry Production Rates
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Workloading Process for Staffing
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Reengineering Custodial Work
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Team Cleaning Concept and System
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High Performance Cleaning Utilizing Team Specialists
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Quadrant I Design
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Master Schedule & Job Cards
Day Two Topics
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Change Management
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Key Elements for Training Manual
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Quality Inspection Process
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Set Up of Pilot Model
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Design Implementation Plan
Who Should Attend?
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Professionals responsible for the management of cleaning operations
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Facility Managers
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Environmental Service Directors
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Operations Managers
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Physical Plant Supervisors
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Custodial Supervisors
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Sales Directors
About the Instructor
Jim Harris is CEO of Janitronics Building Services, a custodial, consulting, training and management firm in Albany, NY, and is founder of Concepts IV, which provides Team Cleaning training for education, health and corporate facilities. Jim is also a former president of the
Building Service Contractors Association International (BSCAI).
For more information, call 800.225.9153.
Allen Rathey is President of InstructionLink/JanTrain, Inc., a training, educational and marketing communications company specializing in cleaning industry best practices.
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