Is Your Company Operating at its Peak Level of Productivity?
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See below for scoring.
Personal Productivity
Yes
/ No
____ Are you in control?
Are you caught up with your work?
____ Do you attack
everything from a deadline mentality?
____ Do you spend
at least an hour daily working on important
things in a Quiet
Time?
____
Do you start to work on projects when you first receive them?
Employee Productivity
Yes
/ No
____
Does your priority and your organization's
priority change frequently?
____
Do you have a training schedule set up for everyone to participate
in?
____
Do you spend less than two hours a day in unnecessary meetings?
____
Are your salespeople really focused on their target
markets?
____
Do you work on one task and complete it before jumping to
another?
Systems/Work Flow
Yes
/ No
____
Does your company have a standardized
way to store and access information?
____
Have your employees ever been taught a system of how to work
in the office?
____
Does your company have standardized
operating systems?
Office Organization
Yes
/ No
____
Is your desk, floor and credenza paper-free?
____ Can employees
locate their paper,computer and e-mail files in five seconds
or
less?
____ Are you utilizing
your floor space to the maximum?
____ Have you set
up traffic patterns in your workplace?
____ Do you have a
retention system in place to eliminate unnecessary bulk
storage?
____
Is your warehouse or long-term storage area organized?
Job Responsibilities
Yes
/ No
____
Do all employees know exactly what their job is?
____
Does everyone have and understand their job
description?
____ Do management
and staff agree on what's required of employees?
____ Is everyone clear
on what his or her real #1 priority
is?
____
Are performance reviews done every six months?
If you scored at least 10 noes, maybe
it's time to pursue a path of higher productivity.
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