What Is Productivity?

Productivity means the efficiency of an organization or its employees to convert inputs, such as capital and labor, into outputs, like services or products. Project managers employ incentives, goals, and communication strategies to boost employee performance and increase productivity.

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Why is productivity important in workplace?

But what does that mean, and why is it so important? In economists’ terms, “productivity” means labour productivity. Specifically, how much value each worker generates per hour.  Higher productivity means higher wages, and an increase in the standard of living.

With the current cost of living crisis, and in the face of doom laden media speculation about under investment and inflation, the drive to improve productivity from the ground up has never been more pressing.

How does productivity affect you ?

Regardless of your industry or role in the business or organisation where you work, the level of personal and group productivity will have an impact on costs, and revenues. But what does this actually mean for you and your business?

Analysing your business’ productivity is a positive, proactive way to tackle a national problem. The good news is, making the necessary changes to improve doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming. 

We’ve worked closely with clients from a broad range of industries for over a decade, and pride ourselves on the key areas of;- 

Workflow Management.

We can identify areas of improvement and help you streamline your workflow, with our Business Process Mapping Solutions.

Keep track of your processes and automate the flow of data with our Workflow Manager Tool.  

Automation.

Automating menial tasks frees up your time, allowing you to concentrate on more important areas of your business. Clients report efficiency gains of 30% and more simply by automating repetitive tasks.

Improved Reporting.

Poor, inefficient data management is one of the biggest challenges to productivity. We can help you streamline your data analysis with our Smarter Dashboard solution. Save time, and get a clear picture of your data in concise, graphical format. 

Communication.

With remote working here to stay, and clients frequently working out on site, poor communication is fast becoming a time consuming challenge to productivity. Our Smartsheet tools are cloud based, meaning that data is uploaded in real time, ensuring everyone is kept in the loop. Create staff surveys with our tools such as Smarter Forms, and can take advantage of features such as cascading drop-down lists and conditional logic. 

Training.

Ensure your team has the skills they need to do the job. Engage with them to ensure they feel part of any new changes, and listen to what they have to say. Our training modules are run as 1-2-1 sessions, or remote workshops for the entire team.  

But in our experience the real secret is no secret at all. We recognise that nebulous productivity stats and government targets aren’t right for everyone. There is no one size fits all approach. The real answer to the Productivity Conundrum lies in identifying the challenges specific to you and your team. 

It’s in those conversations when we sit down together and talk specifically about your business, your challenges, your goals for the future, that we can start to build a picture of what will work for you. 

Streamlining processes to improve productivity

We have the tools and a team of experienced consultants ready to implement the changes you need to see achievable, measurable change, at a pace that’s right for you.  

Demo videos of all the solutions mentioned in this blog are available on our Youtube Channel. Or, for a free consultation get in touch with us today.

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Based on the Agile Project Management method, Card View creates verticle swimlanes for each value in a dropdown list, letting you visually track the flow of your work from start to finish.  Simply drag and drop to prioritise.

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“Excellent product, very well explained – I can see how Smartsheet will improve my work processes”, “This is one of the most useful courses I have attended”.

What are clients looking to achieve?

The sort of managers that attend these Discovery Days are looking for work management tools and solutions that will give them a clearer view of their planning and help them to better communicate those plans to their teams.

What tends to be their current planning tool of choice?

Most often it’s spreadsheets, but using static spreadsheets doesn’t allow teams to collaborate in real time and lots of time is wasted in unnecessarily repetitive activities.

What is the main attraction to Smartsheet?

The fact that it has a familiar spreadsheet interface makes users feel comfortable, then they start collaborating and Smartsheet takes them as far as their imagination allows: Assigning tasks, attaching files, sharing sheets, viewing timelines, setting alerts, creating web forms, going mobile.

What are your Smartsheeters using these very Smartsheets for?

• Health and Safety management, incident management out on site
• Recruitment & HR – on boarding
• Estate management, premises maintenance,
• Managing construction and engineering projects
• Stock control, parts requests
• Budget discussions
• Quotations, estimates,
• Real time progress reports, conveyancers progressing client purchases
• Logistics breakdown and repair App
• SmartStats and SmartGraphs

We are currently helping teams in the NHS to implement these solutions across several departments and they are finding the time saved by these smarter business processes is huge.

Tell us a little more about the Discovery and Optimisation Days

After a demonstration of Smartsheet’s capabilities, light bulbs tend to start popping with delegates saying things like;

“As the training progressed, I found more and more uses for Smartsheet.”

With hands on practice and template building, delegates come away with a whole range of takeaways.

Book your Smartsheet Discovery Day here and discover a smarter way to work.

Discovering new ways of working with Smarter Processes has further inspired my team to develop new ideas, and help our geographically dispersed managers to deliver and manage Health and Safety more effectively and simply

We strongly recommend both the Smartsheet system and Richard Rymill as the lead consultant to help large organisations that are currently heavy users of spreadsheets to book your own Smartsheet Discovery and optimisation training day, you won’t be disappointed

Bob Summers – Head of Health & Safety, NHS Highland

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