Tips to increase your business productivity

August 10, 2016

In this fast paced world encouraging employee productivity is essential for business success. No longer can employees show up and simply punch in and punch out to maintain business performance. We have already written about how people can improve their productivity at work but what can companies do to help their employees be more productive? As the working world evolves and becomes increasingly complex, companies have to find better ways to enhance employee productivity and increase business performance. With this in mind we’ve put together a few tips on how to improve workplace productivity.

 

 

Our top four ways to improve work productivity:

 

1: Encourage flexi-time:

Encouraging flexitime means that employees aren’t spending potentially productive work hours stuck in traffic or wasting unproductive hours at work waiting for their ‘clock-out’ time. Employees can come and go as they need, and work the hours when they feel most effective. By focusing on results companies can still monitor the performance of their employees adequately while giving them the freedom to structure their work to better suit their lifestyle. This makes employees happier and more productive.

 

2: Streamline processes:

Effective process management identifies bottlenecks and creates more effective systems to resolve issues and manage processes. Make sure that your teams are constantly reviewing their systems and processes and identifying where bottlenecks or backlogs occur so that they can be more effectively managed.  Implementing new processes or technologies such as Unified Communications  for sales people or Agile Development for software development teams can greatly improve the systems flow and productivity of your company.

 

 

3: Create spaces for collaboration:

Teamwork is great for productivity as it allows for more ideas and more people collaborating at work. As businesses become more complex people will need to work together to handle complicated business issues. Teams do not always have to be large either, people who work in pairs are able to mentor, learn from and support each other while also sharing information and ideas.

 

Working in teams has also been known to foster ‘connectedness’ between staff, increase problem solving abilities, drive people to improve their performance and create greater worker satisfaction. Interesting spaces also allow employees to think more creatively. Make sure your company’s work space is creatively thought out and has areas which allow employees to connect and collaborate.

 

4: Get super-fast Internet:

Getting the best Internet you can for your business means employees are more productive as they don’t have to deal with slow connections, congested bandwidth or general lag time. Data and file sharing also becomes easier as people don’t have to wait hours for files to upload and download before they can continue working.

 

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