Ideas to Maximise Employee Efforts
The key ingredient in workplace productivity all starts with employee engagement. Engaged employees are likely to stay longer and be more productive overall. Here are ways to engage your employees and ensure maximum productivity.
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Match Tasks to Skills
Knowing your employees skills and behavioural styles is essential in ensuring maximum efficiency. For example, a bubbly, extroverted and out-of-the -box thinker is likely to be a great candidate to pitch ideas to clients, however they may struggle if given more rule intensive work. Find out more.
Before you give an employee a task, ask yourself if the person is suited to perform the task, if not, find another employee who is best suited to the role.
Boosting employee morale is one of the best ways of keeping your team busy and working efficiently. There are many ways of doing this including celebrating accomplishments, mix up the company’s usual way of doing things and not asking staff to complete tasks not up to their skill level.
A recent study showed that managers that asked their employees to tidy, clean and keep the office de-cluttered saw a high-turnover in staff as employees felt that this didn’t match up to their skill set. A way of avoiding this is ensuring you have a reputable office cleaning agency in place.
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Keep Goals Clear & Focused
If a goal isn’t clearly defined and achievable, employees may be less productive. Make sure employee assignments are as clear and narrow as possible, which could help them to achieve the goal more effectively and efficiently.
A way of doing this is through ‘SMART’ goals, which is specific, measureable, attainable, realistic and timely.
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Equip Team with the Right Tools
Your team’s skills are essential to business performance, but the tools they use also play a huge role in their productivity. Choosing the right software will make their work easier, which equates to a streamlined workflow.
- Time tracking apps
- Collaborations tools
- Communications app