Remove Obstacles from the Path by Laura Stack

Published: Thu, 02/13/14

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.." - Henry Ford

Remove Obstacles from the Path

As it relates to a system or machine, efficiency is defined as "achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense." As it relates to people in the workplace, it's achieving "maximum results in minimum time"- the trademark and tagline of my firm, The Productivity Pro, Inc.

Time is the most costly component of human capital. As a leader, one of your jobs is to make it easier for your people to succeed more quickly. You can act as the team bulldozer by knocking over anything that interferes with their accomplishment. Here's how:

 
1. Challenge people to work through processes more effectively. This may involve everything from finding time to think more strategically, to switching from a reactive approach to a proactive one, to putting sticky notes on a way to diagram a process and trying to cut out steps.


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