Teamwork and Collaboration: Drives Success in the Workplace
Teamwork and collaboration are important for business and now key in recruiting new members of the team. People look for a company with a happy productive work culture rather than the best perks. ‘Teamwork makes the dream work’ might be a cliché, but that doesn’t make it less accurate. Working as a team is the […]
Enthusiasm: Spark Success & Increase Productivity
The correlation between enthusiasm and success is undeniable. If you were to watch a group of successful people talking about their careers and achievements it would quickly become clear that the one thing they all have in common is a passion for their work. There’s simply no hiding from the fact that enthusiasm boosts productivity […]
Continuous Improvement: Learn to Work Smarter
Have you heard of the term ‘don’t just go through life, grow through life?’ It’s a way of life we could probably do with adopting for ourselves, but the same basis can apply to our business. Whether you are a multinational or start-up, we should always be growing in some way. This doesn’t necessarily relate […]
Time and Motion Study: Efficiency Tool that Improves Processes
For the longest time, people have been searching for the most efficient ways to work. Frederick W. Taylor is one of the experts who wrote a book on the subject, both literally and figuratively. Taylor’s concepts contributed a great deal in efficiency studies. The time and motion study is among his significant contributions. Put simply, […]
Process Mapping: Visualise the Entire Business Process in Motion
Process mapping is more than a ‘who does what’ visual map for your organisation. It tells a story.
Working from Home: Bad Habits Hampering Productivity
Working from home is no longer an occasional or temporary arrangement after the widespread adoption by millions of businesses across the globe. Remote work is a trend here to stay! Businesses of all sizes have been forced to change the way they work due to the pandemic as the only solution to enable business to […]
Task Management Software: Empower Teams to be More Productive
Task management software is all about enabling teams to work on loads of tasks every day! It’s not just checking items off a to-do list but organising tasks, delegation, and collaboration. Its prime role is to manage tasks efficiently. Trying to remember every task within a business can be difficult. Trying to do this with […]
Lean Methodology: Optimising Business Processes
Lean Methodology what is it? Like a quality cut of meat, your organisation too can be lean. Meat is considered lean when it has very little or no superfluous fat. Essentially, a lean organisation is the same – however swap the fat with wasteful processes. Essentially, you are stripping back the wasteful aspects of your […]
RACI: Identifying Roles and Responsibilities Within a Task
RACI is a key project management tool used to identify roles and responsibilities within a project. This helps avoid any confusion along the way, knowing who has ownership of the project, what roles everyone takes, and who makes the final decisions. Everyone should know their level of responsibility within a task/project. Without clearly defining roles and responsibilities, […]
Scientific Management: Most Efficient Way to Perform Tasks
Before management theory was a thing, work was about people doing the roles assigned to them, in the best way they could. It was in the 1900s when things changed with the introduction of the scientific management movement. Frederick Winslow Taylor birthed the revolutionary concepts that defined how people approach work today. The ideas he […]
