Well congratulations to the Saints. They weren’t the Cowboys, but it is nice to see a team win whose city really needed a morale boost since the devastating winds and floods of the Katrina hurricane. Not to be confused with a moral boost, which some would argue is still coming, though I would never dream of entering that argument. So I say yeah! Right on Saints. Now, we just get a hurricane in here, whisk Jerry Jones away and we’ll be looking at a Super Bowl party here in Texas. Well, I’ll probably go ahead and start the party anyway.
O.k., I know I’m a little late with this, but I got distracted handing out more awards to our teams. Hey, speaking of hurricanes and sports teams, you can imagine I get a lot of comments about the speed of our four person cleaning team. “They came in like a hurricane”, or “A tornado came through here and took away all the dirt” are some popular comments. I know sometimes seeing something done so quick makes some folks nervous. Well, I can understand that if your favorite team is someone like the Raiders, but we operate a Super Bowl worthy team here. So while there may be a flurry of activity, it is the most surgical type cleaning systems you will ever see in Austin. So specific that we have an error free rate of 99.5%. Allow me to elaborate.
Our team is a group of people linked together for work. The benefit here is the accountability to each others success. Meaning, the performance of one, generally reflects the performance of all. While this may appear unfair to some, it does boost ones personal standards to a higher level. So, first of all we find the team is not only prompted to take a better look at how they’re cleaning as individuals, but also has an interest in helping each other out by spotting their work as well. There’s an interesting article that explains further here, but this is the basic principle.
A team of people cleaning will also clean more efficient than an individual. After years of comparison and study, I can tell you this for a fact. Between the morale of the team (members building each other up) and the different skill sets of each of the people, the process is just plain more powerful.
Here’s a link to The Maids International that describes our team better.
The clean team website has a list of tips and rule # 13 says: “If there are more than one of you, work as a team. You’re what the biologists call a “superorganism.” If your partner gets done ten minutes faster, the team gets done ten minutes faster. And that is a wonderful thing. You can’t stop being vigilant for one moment about what will speed up or slow down your partner’s progress.” Good advice.
Yes, we get in,we clean, we get out sometimes in what seems to be like a hurricane, but the big difference is when it’s all over, the clean up is already done.
A hand few of our teams