Improve Employee Productivity: 4 Strategies that are Proven to Work

As much as you may want to do whatever it takes to improve the productivity of your employees, you should carefully consider how you go about it. Pushing your employees and trying to ‘force’ them to work harder rarely works, and in many cases could actually backfire.

If you want to know how to improve productivity, here are 4 strategies that have been proven to be effective:

• Cultivate a positive work environment

If you create a work environment where your employees feel valued and respected it is likely to make them more productive. To achieve that you should promote open communication, provide training and development opportunities, recognize achievements, and so on.

Using Controlio to keep an eye on employees’ work behavior can help as it will let you track employees productivity so you can recognize and reward them. On top of that it may also help you to identify areas where they require training, or help you enforce your communications policy to keep things positive.

• Promote a healthy work-life balance

Taking steps to promote a healthy work-life balance can help reduce stress and improve the wellbeing of employees – which can improve productivity. There are many ways to do this such as offering mental health days, and setting reasonable work hours.

The data in Controlio can be used to track employee work hours to make sure they aren’t overworking. On top of that you can use it to determine how frequently employees are taking breaks and discuss it with them if they aren’t doing so regularly.

• Allow flexible working arrangements

Flexible working arrangements include both flexible work hours and remote work. This can improve productivity levels by allowing employees the ability to choose to work during their most productive hours and in a place that suits them best.

Employee monitoring tools like Controlio will play a part in helping implement flexible work arrangements as they’ll let you track work hours and manage remote workers. Just remember in some jurisdictions you need employee consent by law in order to monitor employees.

• Take advantage of technology

Technology can really help to take employee productivity to the next level. The use of employee monitoring is one example, but it is really just the start and there are plenty of other apps and that can automate or streamline various tasks.

As a starting point you may want to look at the various types of project management, collaboration, and communication software that are out there.

All these strategies are proven ways that can improve productivity – and it’d be a good idea for you to try each one. As you’ve probably noticed they focus on driving productivity in a positive manner as opposed to trying to ‘force’ employees to work harder or threaten them with penalties if they do not.

At the end of the day this type of positive approach is far more effective at improving productivity than attempting to bully employees into doing what you want them to do.