![]() ![]() It’s going to impact workers, working conditions, processing systems, product quality, buyer relationships and how consumers see the brand. The EFI approach to continuous improvement engages the entire workforce through the EFI Leadership Team and the impact is wholistic, touching all parts of the company through an organizational culture shift. The impact of continuous improvement for a company isn’t just in one area or a specific department. (Find the full response starting at minute 2:21) Where do you see the most impact from continuous improvement? When everyone is included, communication is strengthened. These diverse teams can work together to bring everyone to the table and ensure information goes out to the workplace in all languages spoken in the company. It’s important that a Leadership Team is representative of different work areas and different levels of the company, including management and workers, and be inclusive of languages and cultures represented at the company. Relationships and communication between employees and management are the base of a continuous improvement culture.Įxamining communication processes and styles is one of the first steps in facilitating a move toward establishing a continuous improvement culture.ĮFI Leadership Teams have a big part to play in establishing inclusive communication systems. (Find the full response starting at minute 1:30)Ī continuous improvement culture is manifested through the relationships between people who work at the company. ![]() How do improved staff relationships affect a continuous improvement culture? As part of the organizational culture, continuous improvement processes are meant to increase workforce satisfaction, product quality and a company’s ability to grow and advance its goals. Think of continuous improvement as a process of collaboration between management and the workforce to identify issues where improvement is needed and to seek out new ideas to improve processes and relationships within the company. (Find the full response starting at minute 0:51) ![]() It becomes part of the regular business of the company.” – Ana (Lulu) Rivera Collazo, Training Manager for EFI What is continuous improvement? Everyone is looking for ideas, diversity and inclusion all the time. “With EFI, you have a constant self-assessment happening through the eyes of every employee in the company as they look at the work environment, food safety, health and safety issues. This episode’s chat features a conversation between EFI’s Marketing and Sales Manager, Madelyn Edlin, and EFI’s Training Manager, Ana (Lulu) Rivera Collazo, about what continuous improvement looks like on EFI-certified operations. The Fireside Chat Series gives members of the fresh produce industry who are curious about Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) an opportunity to hear directly from EFI staff through casual conversations that explore important aspects of the EFI Program. ![]()
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