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The Two Most Effective Ways to Increase Employee Productivity, Customer Loyalty & Profitability
Wouldn’t it be great if you, as a leader, could wave a magic wand and initiate two simple tools that would almost guarantee an increase in employee productivity, customer loyalty and company profitability? Impossible, you say! After all, those increases require exhaustive planning, numerous employee training and business development initiatives, and a dogged determination to cut costs. In some cases, they even requires massive company reorganization – and everything takes lots of time and with no guarantee of success. Well, all that may be true. But consider another truth: By improving just two things --employee engagement and inclusion --you can immediately increase employee productivity, customer loyalty and profitability and it doesn’t take a long, drawn out program to pull it off. Let me explain . . .
Professional Mentoring – A Tool for Workplace Diversity
The business world is now an exercise in diversity and acceptance. It is essential to use professional mentoring as a tool for workplace diversity, in order to increase employee productivity and remain competitive in a more challenging economy.
Employee Productivity - Most Times, They Are Doing Their Best
Managers always want the best from their people and that means that they expect them to deliver results to the criteria agreed. And, even when that doesn't happen, they need to notice when they people are trying hard...
Practical Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction
Inexpensive and quick actions to raise output and / or lower input in your organization, whatever your line of business. Act to raise profits or output, to ease bottlenecks, to refine operations that have lost their sharp focus over time or start effective new ones. My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.

Measure Productivity And Improve Profitability
It is said that you cannot improve that which you do not measure. A high percentage of business owners have no idea of the real productivity of their employees (or themselves for that matter). This article discusses some steps to remedying this situation!
Cost Control in this Economy
Cost control is not just a checklist, but a way of thinking that cost effectiveness is the primary objective. Focus on results, not the process. And please, don’t just look at direct hourly people for improvement. That is probably not where your big costs are. Show me the money. For a deeper analysis, my book called Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, Thrive offers actions for any phase of the economy, for all levels of the organization chart. It is listed on Amazon, search by the title please. It is available in a Kindle edition as well as paperback.

Online Networking and the Workplace
In today’s world of fast technology, organizations face the task of how to handle the online social networking craze headlined by popular sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In this edition of Astronology, we take a look into the online social networking phenomena and its impact on the workplace.
Track Sales Calls with Call Accounting Software
Call accounting software allows managers to track sales calls, monitor employee productivity, decrease telecom expenses, and track marketing campaigns.
Leadership Accountability
When a person is hired or promoted to a management position, where people are required to report directly to them, inherent in that action is accountability for those employee's performance and productivity. This often comes as a surprise or shock to a manager when they receive their first performance review and it is less than satisfactory. A sales person is solely responsible for himself or herself and the work they perform. Once promoted to management this accountability for what others may or may not accomplish is new territory for them.

Monitoring Productivity
One of the key elements of productivity is observation.The reality is that people perform better when they are being monitored and observed. Monitoring work being doing also allows use to assess the value of that work, eliminate time wasting activities where appropriate giving us time to focus on the important value adding tasks.
Call Accounting Software for the Budget-Conscious Manager
TEL electronics, inc. recently released version 3.0 of its popular call accounting software, the WIN-SENSE 32. This lasted release offers easier setup, advanced reporting options, and multi-PBX SMDR collection.
10 Workplace Motivation Commandments That All Leaders MUST Follow
If you want your employees to shower your company with success... apply these Ten Commandments, help your existing employees find their motivation...

Leveraging Retail Technology
Retailers need to continue to invest in enabling technologies, even in an economic downturn, to enhance efficiencies, productivity, and customer experience.
It’s Time For The Small Business Owner To Get Back In The Game
There is no doubt that market conditions have deteriorated over the past few months regardless of the industry. Business leaders and owners have acted quickly to cut unnecessary personnel and expenses to protect the bottom line. That’s a good thing for the survival of the company even though it doesn’t do much for the overall economy. There is an important bi-product of this activity. It forces the owner or executive to get more involved in the day to day activities of the business and in the case of a small company, forces them to “go back to work”.

Your Roadmap To Go From Employee To President In 30 MOnths
These 6 articles are the result of over thirty years of analyzing, interviewing and training thousands of managers and subordinates in every industry, from manufacturing to wholesale, retail construction, agriculture, service industries and health care. These articles are about how you can become a supervisor and move on to become a President of a company.

How To Go From Mid Level Manager To Top Level Manager In 12 Months
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

Employee productivity - today's issue
Considering that every year, billions of dollars are being lost due to work productivity in the office we can conclude that employee productivity is not a minor issue.

ROI – 411 for Measuring Human Capital
Looking for a quick lesson on ROI? This article explains what exactly ROI is, how it relates to HR, and easy techniques to utilize within your organization.

Using Primal Triggers to Increase Sales, Part 1.
Very few behaviors are consciously motivated. New research in anthropology and biology shows how our primordial conditioning drives our decisions and our buying behavior.

Green Machines
Energy efficiency is a powerful marketing tool. Knowing what’s out there will help you educate your customers.
Why dont they do what I want
How to overcome the fear of leading, managing and hiring people.
Increasing Workplace Stress is Hazardous to Health
Employees are working longer hours and enjoying it less.
Managing Egocentricity in the Office to Help Improve Employee Productivity
The overly egocentric employee is a problem that we’re all too familiar with. These people can have a corrosive and damaging affect on workplace productivity. They can also reduce the general harmony of the office “culture” which is incredibly important for maintaining a satisfied and productive workplace. So what to do?

Other employee productivity Related Articles

Employee Communication is the Secret to Business Success
Business surveys consistently show us that poor workplace communication is a major source of employee dissatisfaction. The repercussions of this include not just low employee morale. Employee productivity suffers, along with a range of other business performance indicators. Are you looking in the right places in fixing your organization’s communication problems?
Employee productivity - today's issue
Considering that every year, billions of dollars are being lost due to work productivity in the office we can conclude that employee productivity is not a minor issue.

Job Talk The Heart Of Productivity
Communication is the heart of job productivity. This article outlines the steps you need to take an internal audit to improve communication and productivity and boost employee retention.
"Bottom-line" Culture vs. a Healthy One?
Since the mid-90's, research has shown that when people love their job and get great value out of the experience, productivity and profits are up, turn-over and burn-out are down. In fact, I recommend organizations consciously use fun as a cultural expectation, because it will increase employee and customer retention/relations, motivate individuals/teams, and ultimately improve overall productivity.
The Interview Process in a Nutshell
Have you ever thought about the full cost of hiring a new employee? There are the obvious costs: placing an ad, the wages spent on time looking at resumes and conducting interviews, pre-employment physical, reference checks. Then there are the less obvious costs: wages for training time of both the trainer and new employee, lost productivity while the position is vacant, lost productivity while the new employee learns and gets up to speed, the cost of mistakes. When you add it all up it definitely motivates you to minimize employee turnover, doesn’t it? And there are many strategies an employer can utilize to create an environment that inspires employee loyalty. But the first and most important step is making the right hiring decision.

Relationships: The Key to Organizational Success
Every company has an organizational structure which determines the duties and obligations of each employee. Each employee, from executive to manager to the employee, plays an important role in the productivity and success of the organization. In many cases channeled down organizational decisions can have a negative influence on the relationship between the supervisor and the employee which results in losses in organizational productivity and profits. Organizational relationships between supervisors and employees are the key to the success of any organization.
The Two Most Effective Ways to Increase Employee Productivity, Customer Loyalty & Profitability
Wouldn’t it be great if you, as a leader, could wave a magic wand and initiate two simple tools that would almost guarantee an increase in employee productivity, customer loyalty and company profitability? Impossible, you say! After all, those increases require exhaustive planning, numerous employee training and business development initiatives, and a dogged determination to cut costs. In some cases, they even requires massive company reorganization – and everything takes lots of time and with no guarantee of success. Well, all that may be true. But consider another truth: By improving just two things --employee engagement and inclusion --you can immediately increase employee productivity, customer loyalty and profitability and it doesn’t take a long, drawn out program to pull it off. Let me explain . . .
HANDLING EMPLOYEE CONFLICT
In this litigious age, many employers are naturally reluctant to interfere with employee conflict. However, since employee quarrels can often entangle and polarize entire groups and lead to low morale, destruction of company culture, and productivity loss --- among other undesired collateral damage --- it is imperative that a leader take control of these types of situations at once.
Increase Employee Productivity with Coaching
Workplace productivity is one of those topics that never seems to be far from the minds of business owners. Ultimately, while it’s true that a great deal of attention is paid to what is currently being accomplished, the greater focus is often placed on what can be done to further increase employee productivity.

How to Increase Employee Productivity?
Increasing employee productivity is one of the surest ways towards increased profit. It is also a competitive differentiator, which can lead to increased market share. From the employee perspective - and it may not be intuitive - it is an excellent way of protecting their jobs. Learn how a few, simple techniques can help improve productivity without any (or minimal) investments.
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