The Pandemic created a series of additional requirements for any business, requiring a process of digital transformation and adaptation to the home office culture, in addition to the challenges of maintaining productivity and managing geographically distributed teams. Keeping your business productive in a Pandemic scenario must have been an immense challenge, which to some degree has already been overcome.
We indicate here some simple ways to manage the productivity of your business, some easy tips that will make a total difference in the results.
Attention to planning
The lack of planning is a recurring mistake in most companies, something that drains energy and disperses work efforts. Good planning must contain goals, objectives, strategies, processes, methodologies and indicators, it can be something more strategic or operational, the important thing is that the work is structured in a planning that can be broken down into short, medium and long term.
Process and time management
Pay particular attention to processes and time management. Lack of training, process manuals or a responsibility matrix could be impacting business results. It is important to stay tuned and create review cycles of all processes and responsibilities of each team member. Time is an essential element for any business, pay special attention to managing your employees’ time, focusing on low-impact activities can drain resources and not bring effective results.
Clear goals plan
As important as knowing where we are going is knowing how we are going. Knowing how to direct your team in the right direction is fundamental to the success of your business, which directly affects productivity. Developing a strategic plan that has a detailed plan with short, medium and long term goals is the basis for your business success. Set priorities, rank them in order of impact and importance, and disseminate them throughout the company.
Adopt a management methodology
Using a management methodology is an important step, and it should be disseminated throughout the company, preferably something aligned with the organizational culture of your business, and be a replicator of this culture. Agile culture is an efficient way to shift the midset, while focusing the entire business on value and agility.
Adopt productivity tools
Managing individual and collective productivity is a challenge in this Pandemic scenario, where employees are outside the company’s environment. We recommend agile management and the use of tools that help to accompany the employee in any environment and form of work. The Productivity Radar manages to carry out this follow-up, while providing management with full visibility of the employee’s activities, an efficient way of managing human capital.
