3 Ways to Boost Productivity: Execute More of Your Plans
When employees are consumed by hours of meetings, it often limits organizational productivity. When productivity deteriorates, most organizations attempt to “restructure” by cutting head count in hopes of increasing productivity and ultimately the return per employee.
Examine Your Productivity from a Process Standpoint
The key to finding the real source of your productivity problem is to investigate your team as-is, rather than jumping directly to eliminating employees. A lot of times, if you can repair your issue at the root cause – most likely your process – you can boost your productivity exponentially without restructuring your whole organization.
Align Employees to Goals and Each Other
The company may have great people and potentially effective teams, but its organizational structure interferes with high performance.
Within a team, alignment connects individuals to the importance behind their work. Employees should understand how their daily tasks roll up to support larger company goals. Team members should be aligned under the same metrics, so they can paint a single picture of success and move towards it together.
Across an organization, alignment helps ensure people are working on the right things and that duplicative work isn’t being conducted. Do you know how all of your resources are spanning across plans and projects? Are there overlapping goals? How are resources from different plans being pulled across the organization?
When you have a clear understanding of your company’s performance at a high level and how goals trickle down, alignment can help skinny organizational structure by reducing shared resources and lines of approval, for example.
Create a Plan for Change Management – And Follow Through!
The people aren’t sufficiently engaged or inspired to deliver their best work.
Unfortunately, this issue occurs extremely regularly with my customers. Organizations attempt to undergo change without the commitment and buy-in from the individuals responsible for undertaking the change.
AchieveIt is the platform that large organizations use to get their biggest, most important initiatives out of the boardroom and into reality. Too many great ideas never quite make it across the finish line, because there’s no real way to keep everyone on course and keep everything on track. What does it take to actually guide these initiatives all the way through to completion? You’ve got to:
Get everything in view – so you can see what’s happening with every initiative, at every level, from the enterprise to the individual, in real time.
Get everyone engaged – with an easy-to-use platform that connects your organization from the executive leadership to the project teams, keeping everyone accountable and on the same page.
Get every possible advantage – not only because you have the premier platform in this space, but because you can draw on the experience and best practices of our execution experts.
To reclaim your time, it’s critically important to establish an efficient process that collects updates directly from the source instead of through multiple levels. And perhaps more importantly, the information must then be communicated at levels of detail for specific management tiers. By creating the proper process, the proper level of output can be generated while also reducing the time spent.
References:
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