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In my location we are undergoing a lot of changes, both in management positions, and in improvement processes. Although most of Unilever already uses the modern system of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), a wonderful strict guideline for really focusing on the small things and improving processes, the ice cream division of Unilever was brought closer into the company last year -previously governed under their own headquarters. That being said, when it came time to doing Focused Improvement training, a system that the co-ops are expected to work off of, my location didn't really know what to make of it. So I finally got my training when I realized I had no idea what Focused Improvement was at the Midpoint Event, I reached out to the co-op coordinator and she put me in touch with a trainer. I reviewed the decks she sent and everything makes so much more sense now! So now I'm going back over my risk assessments and putting them into legible graphs, locating exactly what needs to be targeted to improve - hence "Focused Improvement". The weird part of all of this is though, is that I know all these FI (Focused Improvement) methods that no other manager has seen, or they are just hearing about it. So it's really weird to now balance the fact that I know a lot of the modern Unilever methods of thinking that the rest of this facility is just starting to grasp. What this means for me though is that I'm looking at my work in a whole new way, it's given me a lot of insight on how to now take the data I've collected and do something with it.