4 Tips To Increase Productivity

One of the key areas of a business or blog is productivity. A productive business is a profitable business and a productive blogger means your time is spend on the activities that will increase traffic and monetisation to your blog.

Below are 4 tips to help you improve productivity:

Office Furniture

Believe it or not but your office furniture can have an impact on productivity (or lack of – laying on the couch or in bed for most people does not assist with their productivity levels).

There are a couple of things to consider here.

For starters, you’ll want to take into account comfort. If furniture is uncomfortable, you will be less productive. Flip things around and with comfortable furniture, you will start to become more productive.

Scour the web for good examples of office furniture to encourage productivity. I’m sure you’ll be able to see what makes the perfect office chair and desk to have in your office. Always remember to test out the chairs and desk to make sure they are suitable. Just because they look pretty and stylish they might not be comfortable for long periods of sitting.

The second thing to consider is the positioning of furniture. If more then one person working in your office you will have to ensure everyone is not positioned right up close to each other, they won’t be productive. You need to position desks so that people have enough personal space. Also, consider getting desks with divider screens, so employees aren’t distracted looking at one another all day!

Ensure the set up of the desk and the height of the desk are suitable for the person using it.

Take Regular Breaks

Many people think to be productive you need to work every second of every day. So, they spend the entire working day doing work. They make sure they have minimal breaks so they can get as much work done as possible. It makes sense, the more time you spend working, the more work you do, right? Wrong. Working too much can actually lead you to be less productive.

It’s important that you and your employees take regular breaks throughout the day. Having a 10-minute break will let people recharge and be ready to go again. By not having breaks, people will get tired out. They may be working all day, but won’t get a lot of work done because they’re running on empty. If you want your business to be productive, you need to start taking breaks throughout the day.

Training

Another way you can increase business productivity is to train your staff. Organise special training days where you can share some of your knowledge with your team. You can give them information on how to do certain aspects of their job. You’ll train them to be better at what they do.

By training your staff, you’re getting a more productive set of employees. You’ll now have people that know exactly what they need to do, and how to do it. Every task they complete will be better than it was prior to training.

As a blogger or small business owner, ensuring you are getting training to help you achieve your tasks more productively – for example – if your blog image takes you 2 hours to complete look at outsourcing or take a course on how to use Canva or Picmonkey to make your image creation quicker.

Set Deadlines

Setting deadlines is a great way to improve productivity. If there aren’t any deadlines set, no one has anything to work towards. There isn’t going to be a sense of urgency to complete tasks. But, when you set deadlines, you give people something to aim for. They now know that they’ve got to complete a task within a certain time frame. So, they work to get it done as quickly and efficiently as possible.

You can set monthly deadlines, weekly deadlines, or even daily deadlines!

Setting a deadline can speed up your workforce and lead to a more productive business.