Productivity. To business owners, it can be a mantra. You can judge the success of your organization by productivity, as it often translates directly to profits. You’ll notice a lack of productivity in your operations, and potentially even your pocketbooks, so it’s incredibly important to know whether your business is being productive or not.
Today, we want to highlight the important warning signs of reduced productivity amongst your staff, as well as at the organizational level, and what you can do about it.
Decreased Efficiency
If your business is slowing down, it’s usually as a result of a productivity lapse somewhere. This might mean that tasks are not being completed as they should, whether it’s creating products or providing goods or services. A lack of resources being used properly, too, can lead to such an issue.
Greater Costs
Your inefficiencies can also lead to greater costs that directly impact your profit margins. If your employees are not productive, it could lead to more resources being used during operations, or more time spent on tasks.
Poor Work Quality
If your productivity is suffering, there’s a good chance that your work quality is also on the decline. Employees who are rushing to finish projects are going to cut corners or do things the easy way rather than the right way. If you provide a poor product, it makes sense that your customers will take notice, leading to further decline in business reputation.
Low Employee Morale
If productivity is constantly at a low, then your team will feel its effects, whether they are the culprits or not. They’ll start to feel resentment and low morale even toward their coworkers—the ones holding everyone back.
Improper Resource Allocation
If productivity issues are ignored, chances are there is a resource issue that is also not being addressed. This means that more effort will be wasted responding to these types of issues and less on your company’s actual operations.
Losing Talent
If you fail to respond to productivity problems with your business, it could result in important team members with high value and skill leaving it for greener pastures. They might find that they have an easier time at their new job, where the business doesn’t let inefficiencies in operations or its team become too problematic.
Failing Company Culture
If your business can’t overcome its productivity challenges, you risk your company falling into a culture of complacency, which spells doom for your work ethic and values. You can overcome it, but only if you start to treat productivity issues with the importance they deserve.
Setton Consulting can help your business overcome the challenges of productivity loss. Learn more by calling us at (212) 796-6061.