More about creating…Time, patience…

More about creating…that sanitation plan

So you developed a detailed inventory of everything that’s to be cleaned – with each listed on a 3×5 card. You also established how many minutes each task is estimated to require and determined the number of minutes per week they’ll demand. And importantly you confirmed that those total hours match the available staffing.

Now it’s time to assign them to workstations by separating those cards into piles equal to the number of workers. Once we’ve done that, the first check is to confirm that the number of daily and weekly hours of each station is reasonably balanced. If station one is budgeted for 90 minutes’ work per day and number two just 60, we definitely need to revisit them.

But even if we do that, we won’t get them perfectly balanced. The solution there is to schedule the weekly rotation of the workstations between workers. That simple step will go a long way to eliminate unfairness complaints up front.

Additionally, by executing weekly rotation of the workers assigned to each station, chances are good that some detail in that task that was overlooked by the first worker might just get corrected by the next one assigned.

Next up: Getting it managed by management.

Time, patience…And managing the clock

Yea it’s cold out and the warm days of Spring seems to be very far off. But it’s actually just under 40 days away. And while living through the misery of shoveling snow and scraping icy windshields during those forty days might feel like a hundred, they’ll come and go fast.

Likewise the plans we made last year to improve our businesses during the new year can also sneak up on us. The truth is we have less time to accomplish those goals than a glance at the remaining eleven months left on our 2026 calendar might lead us to believe.

Like those seemingly slow days till the Robins return, if we’re not focused on the task at hand, we’ll pretty easily find ourselves with a third of the year in the rear view mirror – and with a lot less than a third of our goals having been achieved.

The takeaway is pretty plain. We need to treat the first days of 2026 like just as a great football team would if they were two touchdowns behind with very little time left on the clock. Winning in both sports and business belongs to those who work as though there’s not enough time to do what needs to be done to accomplish that goal.