Time management and work productivity play major roles in a successful business. Monitoring the time spent on projects, updates, and any type of work helps you increase efficiency and sets a standard for other employees and deadlines. Proper time management allows employees to meet deadlines, leave plenty of time to address any mistakes, and to be more productive.
The correlation between work productivity and time management is essential to understand and drive a successful business. When attempting to establish efficient productive employees at your business, encourage or require them to use these time management skills to monitor their projects.
Google Calendar
Any person with a free Gmail account has access to a Google calendar. Make your employees block off periods of time showing what project they’re currently working on for a couple hours, one week, or even a month. For longer and larger projects, make them be more detailed in the event descriptions.
The great aspect of this tool is that they can share their calendar with you. You’ll always have access to the flow of their work productivity to see if they’re performing.
Avoid Cell Phones
Smartphones are useful outside of the office to check calendars, email, documents on your Google Drive, and other information on the move. But don’t encourage employees to solely rely on their phones to do something as simple as keeping track of the current time.
Instead suggest they utilize watches. Now that cell phones are all the rage, people have tended to fall away from wrist watches. Having a good looking watch, such as a Nixon watch, upgrades your personal appearance and it eliminates the distractions associated with smartphones.
WriteMonkey
This tool allows you to focus better on your task at hand. For the writers out there, this tool eliminates the distractions and provides a focused writing environment on your computer. Don’t get sidetracked and decrease your work productivity. Any tool that helps block out the nonstop distractions evident online is useful to increase work production efficiency.
Skype or HipChat
Work productivity and time management are affected by the amount of meetings held at your office on a typical business day. Don’t be brought down by endless meetings that go nowhere.
Stop wasting time and invest in either of these two communications services. Have individual or group discussions online while working so that you’re work flow isn’t completely interrupted for another meeting. Don’t be a time robber! Maximize the time you spend working on products and reduce the superfluous minutes away from tasks.
Create Time Limits
Some individuals believe that a little pressure forces professionals to make mistakes and rush work. It doesn’t hurt to set personal time limits and deadlines for projects. Creating a little pressure encourages a person to pick up their pace and become more aware of their efficiency.
Individuals without personal deadlines lose track of time, get sidetracked easily, and care less about their efficiency. A strong working professional should care about their time management, work productivity, and the quality of the work they produce.
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