Highlighting the benefits of the PMI Global conference. This was a great event to attend for learning about many different strategies for projects, soft skills development, networking, and getting a little individual support.
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How do we get more buy in to actually turning tailings wastes into a product?
Is there more opportunity to create products out of those things or have them used as some other sources of reclamation materials to stabilize other sites.
How do we encourage more collaboration on that front?
Read this article, based on sessions of the Mines and Technology conference held in Toronto, October 2-4, 2017, where a panel had a dialogue around this question.
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How can we move forward to embrace new technologies, and the piloting of the many technologies already available, which can both recover value from, and reduce the risks of tailings management?
Read this article, based on sessions of the Mines and Technology conference held in Toronto, October 2-4, 2017, where a panel had a dialogue around this question.
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Last week I attended the Mines and Technology Conference in Toronto, to catch up with what is happening in the mining world, and to moderate a panel on Evaluating the Impact of Technology on Tailings Management.
At this conference, we heard a lot about how we can be using all of the data that we seem to own or have access to. And how we should enable our front line employees to make better decisions, to improve performance on several fronts and to lower costs, using said data.
And we saw examples of where all of this is happening, the technologies available to help us along, and a lot about how to help everyone transition with these significant changes into the way that we do things.
We are on the right track, but there are still things not being discussed.
So with that, I am going to write a short series to cover some of the risks and opportunities for which we need to pay more attention to, specifically with respect to our waste management practices.
Some of this I covered with the panelists, quotes from which I will include. Some I have added depth to - for you can't cover everything in just a half-hour session!
I hope you'll enjoy!
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Tailings. One of those parts of the mining business that everyone loves to hate.
External stakeholders see them as large, ugly ponds of toxic sludge, fearing their presence, fighting against their development. Not in my backyard.
And to the mining business, tailings make up a significant cost - unfortunately being something that no conventional mine has ever been able to eliminate.
So what can be done about it? Are there alternatives?
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Companies have long been approaching motivation and engagement of employees in the wrong way. Research over the past 60 years has not only proven this, but it has also shown better ways to naturally engage and motivate people.
Are you creating a space where your team can flourish, flow and grow?
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Engagement.
One of the primary keys to determining all of your project requirements. A way to bring people together to collaboratively solve the challenges your project may be tasked with. A way to energize your workforce, to motivate and increase productivity, workplace satisfaction and more.
Can there ever be too much of it?
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Have you ever had a situation where your expectations were not met? Where, clearly, the person you were engaged with was on a different wavelength regarding the expected outcomes?
Well, this is a story where it seems that lines got crossed in conveying information from one party to the next, a story where too many assumptions were made. The end result?
Wasted time. Money for nothing.
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When times are hectic, many stressors can arise - stressors that diminish productivity.
The stress of pressing deadlines and actually getting work done, amongst the requests from management for continuous progress updates, the requests for support on unrelated tasks, the frustrations with process inefficiencies, and the constant need to influence others to keep their commitments - so that you can keep your efforts on track too.
To reduce these stresses, and improve productivity, anything that can be done to improve process and ease burdens on your employees can be beneficial. But how to determine which problems cause the most frustration? How to figure out where to start?
By giving your employees a voice.
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