As a business owner, did you ever wonder which factors influence your employee productivity?! Whatever your response is, let's go through this article to identify closely the top things that negatively affect productivity and performance of the employee to get rid of them.
Workforce productivity is an important factor every business owner should consider achieving many successes. So if you want your company to get ranked in 2021 as one of the top companies, follow the following tips of productivity enhancement.
- Create an appropriate environment for work:
Of course no one prefers to work within a noisy atmosphere, especially the developers. Because your company is not just a workplace but also a safe zone for your employees, spend some time to study what your employees really need to be more productive and seek to provide them with. Like some developers who like to work with a white noise covering the surround to work faster and well. Also make an effort to improve their mood through the room furniture, ventilation holes and painting colours which relax the eyes and lead to do their best as you know the more you care about your employee motivation, the more productivity you get.
- Determine the desired edits in detail
When you ask your employees to edit some points in their work, please show them the requirements in detail. Don't assume they might do what you want exactly even without showing them. Because asking them to do any edit after they've already implemented their project, is enough to destroy their productivity later.
- Don't be the frustrating seagull
Seagull management is one of the worst means to lead your team in case you follow it repeatedly to give some strict notes to the employees then fly away again like the seagull. Ever never criticize your employees performance unprofessionally by saying this's wrong and that needs revision.
- Get rid of interrupting behaviors
No one prefers to be interrupted while they are focusing on their work, so what do you think the reaction of developers if interrupted?!
Interruption by a noise or holding meeting in the morning costs you much as your employees take time to get involved in the work again.
To avoid all of these assumptions, keep your employees away from potential interruptions and hold meetings before break or even at the end of the work day.
- Appreciate your employee competence
To make sure you treat your employees professionally to the extent that they give you more productivity. You should respect their exerts and give them all credits to feel appreciated and more productive since productivity is directly related to appreciation of everyone's competence.
- Stop micro-managing
It's seldom to find employees who like to work for a micromanager. No one prefers to be observed all the time and criticized for every single minor detail. If you depend on this way to manage your employees, don't be amazed when some of them ask you to change their teams or even quit their jobs
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Avoid Scope Creepiness
Scope creepiness is defined as the improper and uncontrolled changes which happen during the project implementation. To avoid its happing, you should present proper identifications and accurate instructions to your employees not to find out abruptly some points to change during the project duration. Because that drains your employees motivation and productivity
- Consider the technical debt
The developer usually prioritizes the technical debt over the proper coding in order to get more speed. Although the technical debt provides more accomplishments in the short term, it leads to more complexities in the long term. So, as an employer you should consider it and refactor your work system periodically to make it easier for your employees and to avoid the loss of productivity.
- Define the product process properly
It might be normal to you but it means a lot to the developer. If the product features don't meet the product team priorities or some of these features aren't utilized, it'll be enough to slow the team productivity down. To avoid this issue, you should validate those features through surveys to ask clients for feedback. So, your employees realize their exert is worthy and appreciated.
- Invest much to gain more
When it comes to productivity gain, you should fixate on investments as it's unfair to compare the manual process to the automated one as all of us know well which one provides more productivity. So, if you seek for highly development, more speed and much more productivity, invest in hardware for individuals and tools for teams. Once you qualify your employees and enable them to accomplish their tasks faster, they care about the sake of your work.
- Focus on why
When you ask for code comments, your developers usually interpret it to mean that they must put comments for every single code to end up with a long line of codes showing what each code is doing without explaining why it's doing it. Unless you solve this problem, you will face many technical errors without any clear interpretation to solve them that affects productivity and consumes time.
- Determine a reasonable deadline
In case you ask your employees to determine deadlines, always consider their estimates because they are who know well how much time their work takes. Don't choose tight deadlines but loose if required.
Now it's your turn to find out how many tips of the above you already apply within your company to improve your employees performance and productivity.
Don't hesitate to talk to them, analyse their feedback and solve all problems if found because even when you depend on modern technology, the human factor is still the base of productivity.
