Posts tagged ‘Productivity’

I’m not a guru. I hardly know everything about life, or, for that matter, anything BIG. Besides, my education is pretty less because I couldn’t afford to do any MBA as of now. All I know are little, little things learned from my several real life experiences and the only sense I have is commonsense.

I live simple. I think simpler. And I communicate the simplest. I can only listen to my heart and can just talk my mind. Though it doesn’t necessarily mean that whatever I communicate is always right or ultimate; err is human… and I’m no animal either.

In fact, my English is also not up to the mark. Some people always find follies in my lines (and between the lines). I can understand and appreciate their concern for my language, as I know they do care for me.

But again, as you know, the world is full of careless, casual and unconcerned people; they keep reading my stuff – grammatical errors notwithstanding – so I keep writing for them.

Continue reading ‘Team Building Made Easy’ »

Are you wondering how team building events will save you money in the long run?

Discretionary effort is about employees doing that little bit additional in the ordinary work day – finishing off a report today rather than leaving until tomorrow and planning for the weekend. It is not about working longer but being more productive during the normal working day.

If we can encourage all staff to optimise their discretionary effort, it is easy to see how it will impact productivity for little increased cost. To put this into figures the Hay Group looked at companies whose management team encouraged discretionary effort compared to those that did not.

They experienced a 43% increase in revenues!

They also estimate that high performing workers (those who give more discretionary effort) are 20% more productive.

Continue reading ‘Optimise Staff Efficiency by 20% With Team Building’ »