Chapter 4
Improve productivity.
Become a Productivity Professional
Your business has ramped up and is successfully operating virtually. You’re able to continue servicing your existing customers, but you’ve also widened your customer base and taken on new customers that you never had access to before. And, because you are growing, you are hiring new employees virtually and expanding your talent base to areas that were previously inaccessible by your business.
Business continuity and continued growth mean you need to explore ways to scale your business to take on new customers and keep your costs down. That means working on improvements to productivity as you continue to work from anywhere.
So how do you improve and upscale your remote worker’s productivity while simultaneously making it easier than ever for you to engage with your new customers and cultivate new ones? Implementing the following adjustments to your business will make accomplishing all of these goals more manageable than you might think.
Become a Productivity Professional
Your business has ramped up and is successfully operating virtually. You’re able to continue servicing your existing customers, but you’ve also widened your customer base and taken on new customers that you never had access to before. And, because you are growing, you are hiring new employees virtually and expanding your talent base to areas that were previously inaccessible by your business.
Business continuity and continued growth mean you need to explore ways to scale your business to take on new customers and keep your costs down. That means working on improvements to productivity as you continue to work from anywhere.
So how do you improve and upscale your remote worker’s productivity while simultaneously making it easier than ever for you to engage with your new customers and cultivate new ones? Implementing the following adjustments to your business will make accomplishing all of these goals more manageable than you might think.
Become a Productivity Professional
Your business has ramped up and is successfully operating virtually. You’re able to continue servicing your existing customers, but you’ve also widened your customer base and taken on new customers that you never had access to before. And, because you are growing, you are hiring new employees virtually and expanding your talent base to areas that were previously inaccessible by your business.
Business continuity and continued growth mean you need to explore ways to scale your business to take on new customers and keep your costs down. That means working on improvements to productivity as you continue to work from anywhere.
So how do you improve and upscale your remote worker’s productivity while simultaneously making it easier than ever for you to engage with your new customers and cultivate new ones? Implementing the following adjustments to your business will make accomplishing all of these goals more manageable than you might think.
Become a Productivity Professional
Your business has ramped up and is successfully operating virtually. You’re able to continue servicing your existing customers, but you’ve also widened your customer base and taken on new customers that you never had access to before. And, because you are growing, you are hiring new employees virtually and expanding your talent base to areas that were previously inaccessible by your business.
Business continuity and continued growth mean you need to explore ways to scale your business to take on new customers and keep your costs down. That means working on improvements to productivity as you continue to work from anywhere.
So how do you improve and upscale your remote worker’s productivity while simultaneously making it easier than ever for you to engage with your new customers and cultivate new ones? Implementing the following adjustments to your business will make accomplishing all of these goals more manageable than you might think.
Before you begin trying to increase productivity and ensure that your employees can meet new demand, it's imperative to understand how to measure and monitor productivity from here on out. These measures have to be simple and objective to ensure the resulting metrics are readily understood and actionable. Without them, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand if changes and adjustments are making a difference.
Effectively managing and improving your business’s productivity can provide some serious benefits as well. A recent Forbes article argues that measuring productivity and managing it during the current crisis comes with a silver lining. “Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Assessing productivity is complicated, and isn’t relegated to work ethic alone. It involves your employees’ work habits, what technology they use, your company's organizational structure, and many other factors that work together towards an outcome. Even though there are multiple factors at play you should focus on changing one or two of them, then seeing the results.
The sudden shift to work from home impacts productivity in different ways, and also complicates how it gets measured. Many studies support conclusions that working from home does boost productivity, but the factors associated with this recent and sudden shift to work from home may contribute to the reverse. Employees that can work from home now face additional distractions such as children not in school and more activity in the house. And employees that aren’t accustomed to or prefer not to work from home may have significant issues adapting to remote work.
Before you begin trying to increase productivity and ensure that your employees can meet new demand, it's imperative to understand how to measure and monitor productivity from here on out. These measures have to be simple and objective to ensure the resulting metrics are readily understood and actionable. Without them, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand if changes and adjustments are making a difference.
Effectively managing and improving your business’s productivity can provide some serious benefits as well. A recent Forbes article argues that measuring productivity and managing it during the current crisis comes with a silver lining. “Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Assessing productivity is complicated, and isn’t relegated to work ethic alone. It involves your employees’ work habits, what technology they use, your company's organizational structure, and many other factors that work together towards an outcome. Even though there are multiple factors at play you should focus on changing one or two of them, then seeing the results.
The sudden shift to work from home impacts productivity in different ways, and also complicates how it gets measured. Many studies support conclusions that working from home does boost productivity, but the factors associated with this recent and sudden shift to work from home may contribute to the reverse. Employees that can work from home now face additional distractions such as children not in school and more activity in the house. And employees that aren’t accustomed to or prefer not to work from home may have significant issues adapting to remote work.
Before you begin trying to increase productivity and ensure that your employees can meet new demand, it's imperative to understand how to measure and monitor productivity from here on out. These measures have to be simple and objective to ensure the resulting metrics are readily understood and actionable. Without them, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand if changes and adjustments are making a difference.
Effectively managing and improving your business’s productivity can provide some serious benefits as well. A recent Forbes article argues that measuring productivity and managing it during the current crisis comes with a silver lining. “Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Assessing productivity is complicated, and isn’t relegated to work ethic alone. It involves your employees’ work habits, what technology they use, your company's organizational structure, and many other factors that work together towards an outcome. Even though there are multiple factors at play you should focus on changing one or two of them, then seeing the results.
The sudden shift to work from home impacts productivity in different ways, and also complicates how it gets measured. Many studies support conclusions that working from home does boost productivity, but the factors associated with this recent and sudden shift to work from home may contribute to the reverse. Employees that can work from home now face additional distractions such as children not in school and more activity in the house. And employees that aren’t accustomed to or prefer not to work from home may have significant issues adapting to remote work.
Before you begin trying to increase productivity and ensure that your employees can meet new demand, it's imperative to understand how to measure and monitor productivity from here on out. These measures have to be simple and objective to ensure the resulting metrics are readily understood and actionable. Without them, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand if changes and adjustments are making a difference.
Effectively managing and improving your business’s productivity can provide some serious benefits as well. A recent Forbes article argues that measuring productivity and managing it during the current crisis comes with a silver lining. “Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Assessing productivity is complicated, and isn’t relegated to work ethic alone. It involves your employees’ work habits, what technology they use, your company's organizational structure, and many other factors that work together towards an outcome. Even though there are multiple factors at play you should focus on changing one or two of them, then seeing the results.
The sudden shift to work from home impacts productivity in different ways, and also complicates how it gets measured. Many studies support conclusions that working from home does boost productivity, but the factors associated with this recent and sudden shift to work from home may contribute to the reverse. Employees that can work from home now face additional distractions such as children not in school and more activity in the house. And employees that aren’t accustomed to or prefer not to work from home may have significant issues adapting to remote work.
“Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Peter Bendor-Samuel
Forbes, Manage Productivity With Employees Working From Home
“Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Peter Bendor-Samuel
Forbes, Manage Productivity With Employees Working From Home
“Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Peter Bendor-Samuel
Forbes, Manage Productivity With Employees Working From Home
“Because it forces companies to deal with the reality of an ongoing work-from-home model and make it sustainable, they gain an intriguing opportunity to unlock dramatic improvement in productivity.”
Peter Bendor-Samuel
Forbes, Manage Productivity With Employees Working From Home
In the rush to get your employees up and running quickly to work remotely, considering the challenges they would face as a result wasn’t an option as the critical task at hand was business continuity. Now, understanding how your employees work and what conditions they consider ideal to get work done is the next step in optimizing their productivity over the longer term.
The key to understanding productivity is measuring output, not hours. You know how well your employees perform under normal circumstances and know what they can deliver. Changes in output and even the quality of their work can improve, but you may see the reverse trend in some.
Understanding why this is occurring is the first step in helping those employees optimize their work from home environments so that they can get back to being as productive as they were or even more productive.
In the rush to get your employees up and running quickly to work remotely, considering the challenges they would face as a result wasn’t an option as the critical task at hand was business continuity. Now, understanding how your employees work and what conditions they consider ideal to get work done is the next step in optimizing their productivity over the longer term.
The key to understanding productivity is measuring output, not hours. You know how well your employees perform under normal circumstances and know what they can deliver. Changes in output and even the quality of their work can improve, but you may see the reverse trend in some.
Understanding why this is occurring is the first step in helping those employees optimize their work from home environments so that they can get back to being as productive as they were or even more productive.
In the rush to get your employees up and running quickly to work remotely, considering the challenges they would face as a result wasn’t an option as the critical task at hand was business continuity. Now, understanding how your employees work and what conditions they consider ideal to get work done is the next step in optimizing their productivity over the longer term.
The key to understanding productivity is measuring output, not hours. You know how well your employees perform under normal circumstances and know what they can deliver. Changes in output and even the quality of their work can improve, but you may see the reverse trend in some.
Understanding why this is occurring is the first step in helping those employees optimize their work from home environments so that they can get back to being as productive as they were or even more productive.
In the rush to get your employees up and running quickly to work remotely, considering the challenges they would face as a result wasn’t an option as the critical task at hand was business continuity. Now, understanding how your employees work and what conditions they consider ideal to get work done is the next step in optimizing their productivity over the longer term.
The key to understanding productivity is measuring output, not hours. You know how well your employees perform under normal circumstances and know what they can deliver. Changes in output and even the quality of their work can improve, but you may see the reverse trend in some.
Understanding why this is occurring is the first step in helping those employees optimize their work from home environments so that they can get back to being as productive as they were or even more productive.
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There are legitimate reasons why productivity can take a hit, so taking the right steps to address those reasons is key in helping those employees that need it. Offsetting the costs of a sitter to take care of the kids, investing in updated equipment and providing guidance and maybe financial support to help employees prepare a private office area are some of the steps you can take to help offset specific challenges. Measuring progress after the measures are implemented will also help. Seeing improvements means the changes were useful and helped productivity.
Create regular checkpoints to monitor productivity improvements, and discuss with employees how changes helped or didn’t help. Keep looking for ways to make your employees feel more comfortable and less distracted in their work from home environments, allowing them to focus and get their work done.
There are legitimate reasons why productivity can take a hit, so taking the right steps to address those reasons is key in helping those employees that need it. Offsetting the costs of a sitter to take care of the kids, investing in updated equipment and providing guidance and maybe financial support to help employees prepare a private office area are some of the steps you can take to help offset specific challenges. Measuring progress after the measures are implemented will also help. Seeing improvements means the changes were useful and helped productivity.
Create regular checkpoints to monitor productivity improvements, and discuss with employees how changes helped or didn’t help. Keep looking for ways to make your employees feel more comfortable and less distracted in their work from home environments, allowing them to focus and get their work done.
There are legitimate reasons why productivity can take a hit, so taking the right steps to address those reasons is key in helping those employees that need it. Offsetting the costs of a sitter to take care of the kids, investing in updated equipment and providing guidance and maybe financial support to help employees prepare a private office area are some of the steps you can take to help offset specific challenges. Measuring progress after the measures are implemented will also help. Seeing improvements means the changes were useful and helped productivity.
Create regular checkpoints to monitor productivity improvements, and discuss with employees how changes helped or didn’t help. Keep looking for ways to make your employees feel more comfortable and less distracted in their work from home environments, allowing them to focus and get their work done.
There are legitimate reasons why productivity can take a hit, so taking the right steps to address those reasons is key in helping those employees that need it. Offsetting the costs of a sitter to take care of the kids, investing in updated equipment and providing guidance and maybe financial support to help employees prepare a private office area are some of the steps you can take to help offset specific challenges. Measuring progress after the measures are implemented will also help. Seeing improvements means the changes were useful and helped productivity.
Create regular checkpoints to monitor productivity improvements, and discuss with employees how changes helped or didn’t help. Keep looking for ways to make your employees feel more comfortable and less distracted in their work from home environments, allowing them to focus and get their work done.
Yes, there is a reason why this tip or some variation of it has been in almost every chapter so far. Even if you have the most talented and dedicated employees and the best offering, you will create challenges for your employees and your customers if employees lack the right technology and productivity tools to be efficient and effective. Equipping your workforce with the right tools can immediately create a measurable increase in productivity and efficiency across the entire business subsequently facilitates the ability to grow and expand.
The International Business Times suggests, “If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
Yes, there is a reason why this tip or some variation of it has been in almost every chapter so far. Even if you have the most talented and dedicated employees and the best offering, you will create challenges for your employees and your customers if employees lack the right technology and productivity tools to be efficient and effective. Equipping your workforce with the right tools can immediately create a measurable increase in productivity and efficiency across the entire business subsequently facilitates the ability to grow and expand.
The International Business Times suggests, “If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
Yes, there is a reason why this tip or some variation of it has been in almost every chapter so far. Even if you have the most talented and dedicated employees and the best offering, you will create challenges for your employees and your customers if employees lack the right technology and productivity tools to be efficient and effective. Equipping your workforce with the right tools can immediately create a measurable increase in productivity and efficiency across the entire business subsequently facilitates the ability to grow and expand.
The International Business Times suggests, “If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
Yes, there is a reason why this tip or some variation of it has been in almost every chapter so far. Even if you have the most talented and dedicated employees and the best offering, you will create challenges for your employees and your customers if employees lack the right technology and productivity tools to be efficient and effective. Equipping your workforce with the right tools can immediately create a measurable increase in productivity and efficiency across the entire business subsequently facilitates the ability to grow and expand.
The International Business Times suggests, “If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
“If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
International Business Times, Working from home advice for business owners
“If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
International Business Times, Working from home advice for business owners
“If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
International Business Times, Working from home advice for business owners
“If you’ve always worked in-office with employees and run a customer-contact service-based business, it’s very likely that you’ll need to get new equipment and cloud-based tools to help you run your business from home.”
International Business Times, Working from home advice for business owners
Making sure your workforce has access to project management tracking applications, an all-in-one communications platform and other productivity tools your employees might need, ensures that your employees, and your business as a whole, can run even more efficiently, regardless of location.
In fact, since the pandemic forced many to begin working from home, MarketWatch reports that “U.S. workers were 47% more productive in March and April than in the same two months a year ago through cloud-based business tools, chat applications and email, according to an analysis of 100 million data points from 30,000 Americans by workplace-monitoring company Prodoscore.”
Making sure your workforce has access to project management tracking applications, an all-in-one communications platform and other productivity tools your employees might need, ensures that your employees, and your business as a whole, can run even more efficiently, regardless of location.
In fact, since the pandemic forced many to begin working from home, MarketWatch reports that “U.S. workers were 47% more productive in March and April than in the same two months a year ago through cloud-based business tools, chat applications and email, according to an analysis of 100 million data points from 30,000 Americans by workplace-monitoring company Prodoscore.”
Making sure your workforce has access to project management tracking applications, an all-in-one communications platform and other productivity tools your employees might need, ensures that your employees, and your business as a whole, can run even more efficiently, regardless of location.
In fact, since the pandemic forced many to begin working from home, MarketWatch reports that “U.S. workers were 47% more productive in March and April than in the same two months a year ago through cloud-based business tools, chat applications and email, according to an analysis of 100 million data points from 30,000 Americans by workplace-monitoring company Prodoscore.”
Making sure your workforce has access to project management tracking applications, an all-in-one communications platform and other productivity tools your employees might need, ensures that your employees, and your business as a whole, can run even more efficiently, regardless of location.
In fact, since the pandemic forced many to begin working from home, MarketWatch reports that “U.S. workers were 47% more productive in March and April than in the same two months a year ago through cloud-based business tools, chat applications and email, according to an analysis of 100 million data points from 30,000 Americans by workplace-monitoring company Prodoscore.”
Advanced cloud-based technologies allow businesses and their employees to leverage the same tools when working remotely. Additionally, many of these same technologies can also allow you to make sure your customers are in the loop and generally make communication internally and externally more efficient. This technology is so effective that the absence of it is one of the main issues employees point to when they are unable to reach their productivity targets. A study done by Ivanti found that 85% of workers don’t have the right tech or resources to take care of their tasks efficiently.
Not only do these technologies allow employees to be more productive in their work, but it also enables your company to engage with and cultivate existing customer relationships which is key for any business. The right communications solutions for internal and external collaboration can have a large positive impact financially. SHRM reports that each year, companies with approximately 100 employees lose around $420,000 yearly due to inefficient communications. Hence the criticality of ensuring your business has the right all-in-one communications solution.
Advanced cloud-based technologies allow businesses and their employees to leverage the same tools when working remotely. Additionally, many of these same technologies can also allow you to make sure your customers are in the loop and generally make communication internally and externally more efficient. This technology is so effective that the absence of it is one of the main issues employees point to when they are unable to reach their productivity targets. A study done by Ivanti found that 85% of workers don’t have the right tech or resources to take care of their tasks efficiently.
Not only do these technologies allow employees to be more productive in their work, but it also enables your company to engage with and cultivate existing customer relationships which is key for any business. The right communications solutions for internal and external collaboration can have a large positive impact financially. SHRM reports that each year, companies with approximately 100 employees lose around $420,000 yearly due to inefficient communications. Hence the criticality of ensuring your business has the right all-in-one communications solution.
Advanced cloud-based technologies allow businesses and their employees to leverage the same tools when working remotely. Additionally, many of these same technologies can also allow you to make sure your customers are in the loop and generally make communication internally and externally more efficient. This technology is so effective that the absence of it is one of the main issues employees point to when they are unable to reach their productivity targets. A study done by Ivanti found that 85% of workers don’t have the right tech or resources to take care of their tasks efficiently.
Not only do these technologies allow employees to be more productive in their work, but it also enables your company to engage with and cultivate existing customer relationships which is key for any business. The right communications solutions for internal and external collaboration can have a large positive impact financially. SHRM reports that each year, companies with approximately 100 employees lose around $420,000 yearly due to inefficient communications. Hence the criticality of ensuring your business has the right all-in-one communications solution.
Advanced cloud-based technologies allow businesses and their employees to leverage the same tools when working remotely. Additionally, many of these same technologies can also allow you to make sure your customers are in the loop and generally make communication internally and externally more efficient. This technology is so effective that the absence of it is one of the main issues employees point to when they are unable to reach their productivity targets. A study done by Ivanti found that 85% of workers don’t have the right tech or resources to take care of their tasks efficiently.
Not only do these technologies allow employees to be more productive in their work, but it also enables your company to engage with and cultivate existing customer relationships which is key for any business. The right communications solutions for internal and external collaboration can have a large positive impact financially. SHRM reports that each year, companies with approximately 100 employees lose around $420,000 yearly due to inefficient communications. Hence the criticality of ensuring your business has the right all-in-one communications solution.
