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b'Hello and I appreciate you listening in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career today, I\\u2019m Marty and today I\\u2019d like to share a question posed to our WAOC group. I had a great time researching for this episode. I sent out a few questionnaires to Supervisors and Managers I know soliciting their thoughts and advice, I posed the same question to each of them and not surprising all the answers we\\u2019re practically carbon copies of each other! Let me kind of set the stage a bit. The scenario is an associate with about 3 years warehouse experience in a distribution facility. Their present position is as an Order Selector and he has experience as a forklift driver in past production positions. Overall he\\u2019s worked about 5 years in 3 different warehouses and appears to possess the necessary skills and training. He states \\u201cI know I\\u2019m an average selector and my errors are well within the norm. I always receive my productivity bonus and I\\u2019ve never had an accident of any kind. I want to do more but I feel like my supervisor doesn\\u2019t even know I\\u2019m here, she\\u2019s always nice, says hello and answers any questions, which I hardly ever need anything anyway. WAOC is always talking about Getting Noticed & Be that person so what else do I need to do. I\\u2019ve only been tardy one time and haven\\u2019t missed many days at all. Any ideas? And in parentheses he\\u2019s put please don\\u2019t use my name.
\\nIt sounds like the gentleman is on the right track without a doubt. Attendance and being on time is a large piece of our advancement pie. Getting noticed isn\\u2019t always easy and yes it\\u2019s possible to do everything 100 percent correct and find that our Supervisors just don\\u2019t see it. Let\\u2019s put ourselves in their shoes for a minute. They have an employee they can count on, shows up everyday and produces for them. We make there jobs easier. So yes, even though we may be sharing our goals with them, their comfortable with us in the position we\\u2019re in, shoot, we may be the reason this part of their job is going so well. So, all we need to do is make another part of there job, or all of their duties easier. We need to show them we can help in other ways too.
\\nWAOC tries to stress the importance of self-education and impressing others, heck impressing ourselves for that manner. Honestly its so easy, I sometimes think we make it so hard on ourselves because the information and words we need are around us and used everyday. We know all the key words, those attention grabbers that will, without a doubt, get us noticed. Noticed by not only our boss but their boss as well.
\\nWe\\u2019ve talked a lot about the use of keywords before. Not complements towards our management teams but words that means something to them, things that they are held accountable for. Today lets talk about a few words that will get their attention. You\\u2019ll be able to identify where their concerns are or what their focused on and you will get noticed by them. Remember we\\u2019re going to make their jobs easier and at the very least we\\u2019re going to speak to what\\u2019s on their mind. We don\\u2019t have to be proficient at any of this, we just need to be able to use the vocabulary & be able to speak to it a little.
\\nFirst let\\u2019s look at a few reporting words:
\\nhttps://www.thebalance.com/measures-of-warehouse-productivity-2221323
\\nProductivity: Warehouse productivity is a number of measurements that management will analyze to monitor the performance of their warehouse operations. The basis of many of the measures used in warehouse productivity is based on how much it costs to perform an operation. The study of labor productivity started with the analysis of repetitive operations in a manufacturing environment. Time and motion studies were performed by industrial engineers, who would observe how long line operators took to do certain operations and would then mathematically calculate standard times for operations.
\\nThe warehouse operations are unlike production as...'