We have a great feeling that quality management systems should be in place with respect to business units and organizations. The quality management systems are expected to improve these organizations on a continuous scale. Preserving documents, streamlining processes, gearing up activities for results, conducting audits, and managing for noncompliance are often buzzwords for execution in organizations that really care for quality management systems.
Well, let us try and find out as to whether the quality management systems have applicability in our personal life.
- Benchmarking.
Identify the key responsibility areas of your life and set the benchmark for each of the activities. Say, for example, you want to improve your mathematics, set a benchmark of scoring above 90% as an improvement. Ensure that every aspect pertaining to your key areas for improvement is benchmarked.
- Measure.
Keep on measuring your performance, quantitatively and qualitatively, and find out whether you perform beyond your benchmark. Measure your performance, enhance your benchmark, and improve continuously. Remember, only that thing that get measured gets improved.
- Check lists
Checklists help to provide a snapshot of key tasks, which in turn serves as a reminder of goals to meet through the completion of such tasks. Check lists helps us to get things organised and visible, ensuring a quality day, week and month.
- Lean management
Let us cut down on our unproductive time, un-needed products, to cut costs and wastes and bring in effectiveness, even when we are at home.
- Audits
Let us do audits to know our strengths and weakness on a plethora of aspects at home, so that we realign and balance.
- Document control.
Have the entire important document stored in e- format. Make use of e- lockers, drop box and Google drive for this purpose. Let us continue your updates in this on a regular basis for safety and security of our documents.
Generally, the quality of life is determined by the following factors.
- Material living conditions
- Productivity or the main activity.
- Health
- Education
- Economic security and physical safety.
- Leisure and social interactions.
- Natural and Living environment
- Governance and basic rights.
- Overall experience of life.
Story
One night four college students were out partying late night and didn’t study for the test which was scheduled for the next day. In the morning, they thought of a plan.
They made themselves look dirty with grease and dirt.
Then they went to the Dean and said they had gone out to a wedding last night and on their way back the tire of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back. So they were in no condition to take the test.
The Dean thought for a minute and said they can have the re-test after 3 days
They thanked him and said they will be ready by that time.
On the third day, they appeared before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a Special Condition Test, all four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. They all agreed as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.
The Test consisted of only 2 questions with the total of 100 Points:
1) Your Name? __________ (1 Point)
2) Which tire burst? __________ (99 Points)
Options – (a) Front Left (b) Front Right (c) Back Left (d) Back Right
This is a right question to measure the quality of your life.
Activity
List out the set of activities you would initiate to bring in quality management in life.
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Quote
“To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.”– Winston Churchill.
Takeaways
- Quality management is applicable in our personal life also.
- We can adopt the 6 point strategy to bring in quality management in our life.
