University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

This blog will provide you with advice on how to get difficult people to buy into your project.  We also talk about why you need to build rapport when rolling out culture changes across large organisational estate.

If you are a facilities manager, sustainability manager or operations manager, this blog is going to benefit you no end.

We’ve talked about this topic in other blog posts, but we had a meeting recently with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. They have a well developed reuse system but have adopted Warp It to help with the management. They asked what sort of metrics they could use to quatify a goal using the Warp It system- financial, environmental or social? For us it was a no-brainer. To be blunt:  Track the financial savings! That is what your seniors want to see primarily. What was re assuring about the conversation was the fact Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were setting goals for the project- and the comment stimulated this blog post!

What does success look like to you? Think, picture it, and visualise it, go on, take a few seconds...

We have talked in the past about how overwhelming projects can be at work - and we always offer solutions.

You are more likey to succeed and work effectively if you set a goal. Just by setting your goal, writing it down, weird things happen that come into play and make you more likely to achieve it.

Right at the very start of a new project, you have to define a goal for yourself and the project. Where do you want the project to be in 6, 12 or 18 months time?

You need to be able to look ahead and create that vision. In this blog post we talk about the benefits of setting a goal for your project. As usual we use a reuse project as an example but it could be anything. 

At the end you can download our super simple guide " How to set goals" which will help your in your work and home life.

This 7 step guide to setting goals really helped me and it will help you achieve. 

When a new project or initiative is proposed, the thought of what needs to be done can be overwhelming and even paralysing.

This blog post is all about how to take action and get that project nailed! We also give you 10 productivity tips at the end to make your day go BANG! As well as this, you'll gain access to a furniture reuse program milestone spreadsheet so you can plan your reuse program roll out. 

It was the United States Army General Creighton Adams who first posed this question..

Q: How do you eat an elephant?

Any development of quality is going to take time.

Understanding the value of barriers