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Workplace Productivity – Switzer Rest Home

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:29:52 +0000

The challenges facing the Switzer Home over the years have included retaining and recruitment of staff, managing health and safety, finding suppliers of equipment in a rural location, and responding to growth in the Far North region and the services they provide through better organisation of work

Duration : 0:9:41

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Workplace productivity – Coll Electrical

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:28:42 +0000

Coll Electrical is a company specialising in high quality electrical work, that has grown in size and profits after they developed the internal leadership team.

Duration : 0:8:30

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Workplace productivity – Cottonsoft

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:27:02 +0000

Cottonsoft a tissue manufacturer, involved staff in improving work practises and identifying how product output could be improved.

Duration : 0:7:52

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Workplace Productivity – Rotaform

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:32:07 +0000

Rotaform Plastics is one of New Zealand’s largest and most experienced Rotational Moulders. Established in 1979 by Grant Brumby, in a small workshop in Auckland, we are still a family owed business and continue to provide our customers with the same design and manufacturing excellence that the company was built on.
The company also offers a design, manufacture and assembly service for custom moulding customers.

Rotaform Plastics also imports a range of products making us a total solutions provider in the markets where we operate

Duration : 0:3:30

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Workplace Productivity – Furnware Ltd.

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:31:21 +0000

Furnware has become a world leader in ergonomic school furniture after it invested in research and design to develop new high value products.

Duration : 0:9:51

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Workplace Productivity – Maintain NZ

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:33:27 +0000

MaintainNZ, a National Centre of Maintenance Excellence, in Kawerau is a partnership initiative which has been established to lift manufacturing productivity levels across New Zealand’s major industries.

Duration : 0:9:22

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Workplace Productivity – James Cook Hotel

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:32:22 +0000

The core challenge for the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor in Wellington has been staff retention which is a common issue in the hospitality industry

Duration : 0:9:56

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Workplace Productivity – Outward Bound

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:24:39 +0000

Outward Bound is the leading organisation in New Zealand for showing people their full potential through challenge and adventure in the outdoors. It was established in 1962 and still operates from the original location, Anakiwa, in the Marlborough Sounds.
Anakiwa, near Picton, has been described as the most perfectly situated Outward Bound school in the world. The natural timbered buildings of the facilities merge gracefully into the curve of the bay and are backed by native bush.

Hahn was an educator. In his words: “We are all better than we know. If only we can come to discover this, we may never again settle for anything less.”

Duration : 0:7:40

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Workplace Productivity – Goodtime Foods

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:44:18 +0000

The Goodtime production and management team represent over 80 years of baking industry experience and know how – gained from working in a variety of companies both in New Zealand and overseas.

This team has been at the centre of Goodtime’s progressive development, responsible for many of the innovative manufacturing systems that have become synonymous with Goodtime.

Goodtime pioneered the development of a bakery manufacturing process that could produce freshly baked products every day and have them delivered in specially designed temperature-controlled vehicles to maintain factory-freshness to customers throughout the country.

And to check, computerised sensors frequently travel with our products to ensure that no temperature fluctuations take place which may be detrimental to freshness and quality.

Goodtime is a company that not only complies with food regulations but is constantly working on ways to exceed them. Goodtime has been an Agriquality approved supplier since 1991, have its own in-house food safety programme, and applies additional hygiene-control standards and monitoring to ensure its product quality is never compromised.

Duration : 0:4:26

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Workplace Productivity – Toll Tranzlink

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:11:28 +0000

For over one hundred and forty years, Toll NZ has been the foundation operating infrastructure in the New Zealand Transport Industry.

A state owned enterprise for a good number of those years, Toll NZ since recognized under public ownership that significant change was needed.

Toll Tranz Link Distribution was formed, to make up one of three business units under Toll NZ Holdings Ltd.

Toll Tranz Link Distribution has been identified as the retail arm to Toll NZ Holdings Ltd, focusing on being a solution provider in the marketplace, through a strong Supply Chain understanding.

Duration : 0:3:59

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