Manage Your Team by Tracking Productivity

We’ve all heard time and time again that to get things done, business owners must start delegating and outsourcing. This sound advice has its own darker side – time you spend tracking your team members’ and vendors’ performance and evaluating their productivity. To run our businesses more effectively we need to become very aware of how our teams use their time performing assigned tasks and use this knowledge to manage them appropriately.

For example, one of your vendors or contractors might not charge much per hour, but will take longer to complete each task, thus costing you more than a more expensive, but more efficient vendor. Or you might discover that small changes to communication process and work flow result in large productivity gains.

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