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3 Ways You're Getting in the Way of Your Employees' Productivity (and How to Stop)
Focus day
Choose a day on the week and block 3-4 hours of focus time: turn your phone off, stay away from your emails, and focus on just one or two high-value activities that will make the most difference in your company.
Encourage your employees to do the same.
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Unnecessary meetings
Meetings should be held to create value. So if you feel a meeting doesn't create value, don't hold it. Letting your employees use that time to work will bring you more value.
Choose your meetings wisely and mare sure you stick to the agenda during your time together.
Focus day
Choose a day on the week and block 3-4 hours of focus time: turn your phone off, stay away from your emails, and focus on just one or two high-value activities that will make the most difference in your company.
Encourage your employees to do the same.
Clear deadlines and deliverables
Your team should a clear idea of what they need to focus on and the milestones to be met, in a quarter.
Failing to have clear deadlines and deliverables will lead to confusion and will sabotage employee productivity.
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Focus on value
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Do a mind sweep
This process walks through a list of prompts in different categories, looking for things you're trying to remember and commitments you've made and gets them out onto paper.
It will help you clear your thoughts and get the distractions out of your head.
Review the week to come
Take the time to review the coming week's schedule and organize it into large chunks of time, with tasks grouped by importance and urgency.
It will make it easier to manage your work.
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Setting employee expectations
Setting clear employee expectations can benefit your business. Management must co...
Employer/Employee expectations
Employee expectations to maintain:
- Displaying a positive and respectful attitude
- Working with honesty and integrity
- Performing their work to a reasonable standard
Employees expectations;
- Proper training, support and leadership from management and access to resources
- Timely and accurate payment of wages
- Safe working environments
- Explanation of responsibilities, company policies and procedures
- Regular feedback from supervisors or managers.
Team expectations
Team expectations refer to the behaviors that occur while working together on tasks.
- Respect and courtesy to everyone.
- Be accountable for your work.
- Be reasonably flexible about task assignments.
- Be willing to lend a helping hand.
- Ask for help when needed.
- Work safely together.
- Be open to constructive feedback.
- Be self-motivated and reliable.
- Share ideas for improvement.
- Be cheerful, positive and encouraging to other team members.
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Steps to an effective delegation
- Always provide feedback.
- Be sure to keep an eye on things.
- Be clear about what you want your employees to do.
- Delegate the right things.