Is your use of time holding you back? Jeffrey discusses seven ways to increase your output in less time.
Leading In Lean Times
Some winters are flush with cash and some winters are lean. When winter revenue is low, you may feel like you are in lean times, like Moses wandering through the desert. While this can be a bad feeling, focusing directly on a 'lack of money' will make matters worse. I...
Non-Billable Time Is Killing You
Every service company has to make an assessment of how much unproductive non-billable time their crews will have in a year, and this in effect becomes part of their overhead. Do you track this? If not, you are not alone. Many if not most companies don’t track...
“Job Crafting” Improves Employee Productivity
This month I learned a clever way to improve employee productivity, called Job Crafting. One of my clients (Winterberry Gardens in CT) gave me permission to share it with you, after we discussed it during our Leader's Edge peer group in Plano, Texas. This tool is used...
Busy Is Not Always Good
Have you noticed how busy people are these days? People were busy last year, and now they are even busier today. But busy is not always good. There are many different kinds of "busy." Just like the Eskimo's have many different definitions for "snow", we need to...