Use These Tips To Become A More Effective Manager

The world is filled with inefficiencies and ineffective processes. Your workplace is probably no different. Luckily, there are proactive ways to combat this and achieve greater productivity.

Track Time Effectively

If you struggle to keep track of your team’s work hours with accuracy, you are not alone. It can be difficult, if not impossible to be fully attentive to your employees’ coming and going, regardless of the staff size. From logging in and out for shifts to lunch breaks and other needs, there is a lot to pay attention to.  

This is where technology comes to the rescue. When you implement Time and Attendance Software, you are creating a more employee-friendly way to keep track of hours worked by looking at the logs of hours clocked into the workplace.

Time and Attendance Software can benefit you and your company in multiple ways, such as:

• With the installation of an app on your staff’s smartphones, they do not need to fumble for cards or with other devices to clock in and out.

• Biometric readers are another viable option, as they use each employee’s unique fingerprint or facial structure for recognition.

• Unapproved overtime and extra hours are no longer an issue with the software set in place to track expected hours per pay period, week, or shift.

• The software works to help your company remain labour-compliant regarding treating employees fairly and not overworking them.

• You can set up and manage the system based on your company’s unique infrastructure and needs.

Reconsider That Meeting

If there is one thing that many bosses, managers, and employees alike have all learned over the past few years, it is this: That meeting could have been an email or a phone call. 

Consider the time involved in getting everyone into the same physical space. Each employee must lock their computers and workspace as appropriate, they will probably use the restroom and stop for a beverage or snack. They arrive in the meeting room and chat with their co-workers for a few minutes before the meeting begins. This process could eat up 20 minutes of their time before the meeting even begins. When the meeting has concluded, you can reverse these steps and add another 20 minutes of unproductive time to everyone’s day.

Now to the meeting. Unless there is a major project underway, some big company changes needing explanation and implementation, or a training session, the time spent in a meeting is likely not the most effective way to disseminate information. Often, your employees will sit there, contribute very little, and look at a slide deck they could have easily viewed from their workspace and then go about their regular duties.

Watch this video to learn about the actual cost of holding business meetings.

Now that you have learned about these helpful tips, it is time to implement them in your workplace. Become a more effective manager by guiding and mentoring your team instead of watching them clock in and out. Show them their well-being matters by valuing their time with a conversation or email instead of a meeting.