subject: Top 7 steps for a more productive Christmas [print this page] Top 7 steps for a more productive Christmas
If you or your employees are struggling to get through the workload, you may be facing a difficult festive period unless you can get on top of it. Here are 7 steps for being more productive.
1. Are social media sites taking up too much of your employees' time? Limiting use of sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn could help save time for many staff.
2. Do you spend the first hour or so of your day checking and responding to emails? Emails, while a necessary part of your work, can eat into your day dramatically. Having a mobile phone with email access could help avoid a back-log of emails.
3. Do you have a long drive to work? If you drive to the office each day and find your ideally 45 minute journey taking 90 minutes, you may be wasting a lot of workable time. Why not start and finish the day earlier, or later, and reduce the commute.
4. Do you find yourself jumping from project to project and rarely finishing anything? If so, you may need to start planning your schedule more efficiently. Creating to do lists at the start of the week and ticking things as and when they're done could be the best way of remedying the situation.
5. Do you lose time in between, before and after meetings? If you need to have meetings as part of your job, either inside or outside the company, then a great way to save time is to arrange them for at the start or end of the day. Also, make sure you schedule consecutive meetings close together to avoid dead time.
6. Is your drive to work avoidable? If you can use public transport instead and have access to the internet, checking and sending emails on the way to and from work could save time. Plus, you could write up reports, draft documents and create your To Do list.
7. Do phone calls take up a lot of your time? Many firms spend a lot of time on phone calls that aren't that important, neglecting proper work and the more urgent calls that come in. By employing the services of an outsourced contact centre, you could have all your business call handling taken care of. They can deal with calls as you suggest, putting important calls through and taking messages when you're up against it with work.
Does using an outsourced contact centre for your telephone call handling needs sound like it could help your company?
