Productivity in a Blended Workplace - 191

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs Podcast with Peter Boolkah | Business Coach | The Transition Guy®

Management in the industrial age meant having to see a person physically present, and being or “looking” productive. Measuring productivity was rather archaic. But employee time management has changed a lot with the post-pandemic blended working environment. As business owners and leaders, we'll have to do a better job at managing employees remotely, focusing less on standardization, and encouraging employee autonomy.
If you do a simple Google search, you’ll find a whole lot of content about productivity.
With working from home, homeschooling, household responsibilities, and balancing everything in between, productivity can get really hampered. So what can we do to actually get our time back, and do the things we want to do?
Employers and managers now need to allow employees to manage their own time as an entrepreneur would, to whatever degree is realistic. In managing employees remotely, since managers don't necessarily see employees, it's easy to fall into a tendency to micromanage. But micromanaging is a HUGE waste of energy and time for both managers and employees.
People are trying to transition into this post-pandemic working environment by mirroring their office environment at home. But what we REALLY should be doing is moving to managing by outcomes. We need to make sure that both manager and employee are really clear on the parameters - the WHAT, the WHY, the WHEN - but give the employee the FREEDOM to figure out the HOW.
Over-standardizing and over-prescribing your processes is unnecessary. When we tell people how to do things, we inhibit their ability to come up with new, innovative, different and, sometimes, even better ways to accomplish your goal.
When it comes to managing employees remotely, simply guiding employee time management while still allowing space for employee autonomy will be a lot better in the long run than micromanaging.
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ABOUT PETER BOOLKAH
Hi, I’m Peter Boolkah, business coach, keynote speaker and winner of over 32 major coaching awards. I know how difficult running a business can be and how overwhelming it can feel when things aren’t going right.
One thing I tell my clients is never stop believing in yo

CONNECT WITH PETER BOOLKAH:
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ABOUT PETER BOOLKAH
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Peter Boolkah (AKA The Transition Guy) is the World’s #1 Business Transition Coach whose main passion in life is to work with talented and high performing business owners who are in the process of creating exciting, high growth businesses.
Peter helps you to navigate and transition through the crucial growth pains that all growing businesses experience making it as painless and exciting as possible.
It is important to remember that businesses do not just grow and develop on their own, it is up to us and our teams to make this happen by making every day purposeful.
As businesses grow some parts of the journey will be easier than others and most owners do not have all the answers. Starting a business is one of the most exciting things we get to do and we all have aspirations of achieving great things. In fact Peter is yet to meet someone who started a business with the intention of failing.
Peter’s ultimate life goal is to inspire and empower over 100,000 Entrepreneurs to create long term thriving businesses resulting in the creation of 1,000,000 jobs.
So if you are scaling up your business, you’re in a bu...