Ez Consulting Group Blog Creating a Productive Working Environment

This doesn't mean getting a nice fish tank or branding everything to death in your office (although aesthetics and brand are still key depending on your type of business!). It's about creating a productive working environment where employees can share ideas, tap into each other's knowledge and limit the impact of any absent resource. This is where some form of project and team collaboration is important, as it is commonly recognized that working together can accomplish more. By providing your project team members with a platform where they can work in synergy, share ideas and share knowledge; and where each individual team members contribution is focused on a common goal, your business will quickly benefit from greater innovation, better problem solving and greater efficiency in project delivery. The result: increased productivity and utilization.5 Steps to Improve Employee Utilization and ProductivityIn summary, there are 5 simple steps to how your business can improve employee utilization and productivity including:Implement some form of time recording - "You can't manage what you can't measure", by capturing timesheets you can understand your current utilization and productivityDefine Appropriate Variables - if you sell services you will want to measure chargeable utilization, ensure you define variables that enable you to measure utilization and productivity that is applicable to your business.Improve your planning - improving your resource deployment upfront should not only improve your future resource productivity and utilization, it will also give you a more realistic view of the health of the organization by comparing planned versus actual.Manage Customer Expectations - communicate to your entire team the importance of managing the customer's expectation from initial enquiry all the way through to project delivery. In the long run you will have more happy customers resulting in your employees having to perform less un-productive tasks.Encourage Collaboration - boost your productivity by creating an environment where your team members can easily share knowledge, ideas and lessons learned. This will not only improve individual productivity it will help improve project standards and service delivery.Tags: Business Development