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AUSTRALIAN WELDING | OCTOBER 2015
Business Essentials:
How to Enhance Workplace Productivity The need to ensure and enhance employee productivity is a reality that no business can ignore these days. If you run your own business, you’ll know that it’s almost inevitable you’ll encounter issues that, from time-to-time, weaken or even completely extinguish employee motivation, dampening overall productivity. Obviously, you need to mitigate these productivity-killers. The first step is identifying these issues, so you can prevent them from emerging, or eradicate them if they’ve already crept into your day-to-day operations.
Strengthen Your Leadership When it comes to strengthening productivity, begin with your leadership team. Effective leadership requires a clear vision of
where your business is heading. It’s about identifying new opportunities, inspiring your team to pursue those opportunities, and giving your team the chance to identify and implement their own ideas.
Eradicate Productivity Killers Identify any productivity killers that already exist within your workplace. Closely observe your workshop or building site, and pinpoint any issues that seem to be dampening employee morale. It might be a lack of communication, a particularly aggressive team member, a lack of learning and development opportunities, or something as simple as a shortage of supplies. Once you’ve identified the issues, eradicate them one-by-one. Foster A Positive Culture
Positive relationships between employees, teams and managers are a defining feature of productive workplaces.
Positive relationships between employees, teams and managers are often a defining feature of productive workplaces. A positive working environment motivates people and helps them feel like a valued member of the organisation. Employees are more likely to feel encouraged to ‘go the extra mile’.