Pictures from the AALAS VOE-Network Booth

​The Vivarium Operational Excellence Network was at booth #460 this year and had a blast meeting meeting attendees and members of the VOE-Network who came by to visit us! 

We ran our button making activity again and had attendees pick and make hilarious VOE-Network themed buttons! We made and dispersed well over 1000 buttons at these years meeting!

Thanks to all who came by to make a button and say hi!

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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE BEGINS WITH "RESPECT FOR PEOPLE AND HUMANITY"

We had an awesome turn out at this AALAS panel discussion. The panelists discussed: how respect is defined and put into practice at their institutions, what servant leadership is and how to put it into practice, how creativity can be enhanced through full employee engagement, how operational excellence drives creativity, and the culture of care, successes, failures, and what we’ve learned.

​Signals that may indicate that your culture is suffering include low employee morale, quality of work concerns, interpersonal conflict, excessive sick callouts, attrition, and possibly even sabotage. Employees who feel valued become more engaged and more productive, leading to realizing a true learning organization. Institutional leadership’s commitment to a “people first” culture with unwavering trust in their workforce is the DNA of an OpEx environment.