In order to take your business to the next level, the entirety of your workforce needs to be perming in a highly productive and efficient manner. To ensure this is the case, you need to resolve to get as much as you possibly can out of your employees at all times. There’s no time for laziness or procrastination in your workspace, so you need to banish it at all costs.
Here’s what you can do to get more work out of your employees:
Keep your employees healthy
The healthier your employees are, the less sick days they will take and, ultimately, the more work you will get out of them. Keeping your workforce fighting fit really is a no-brainer.
The first thing that you should do in this instance is focus on general illness prevention. By showcasing the fact that you are taking the prevention of illnesses and ailments seriously, your employees will naturally follow suit.
When it comes to focusing on general illness prevention, you should consider:
- Having a trained medical professional visit your office from time to time to speak to your employees and educate them about common health issues
- Arranging for onsite flu vaccinations to take place
- Offering incentives for healthy eating and physical activity
Something else that you should do to keep your employees healthy is to encourage healthy eating within the workspace. Sometimes, all they need is a nudge in the right direction in this instance and, as someone who has the power to influence their decision, you should be the one to nudge them.
To encourage healthy eating in your place of work, you should:
- Provide a fridge for your employees (and stock it with healthy foods from time to time)
- Make sure you fruit bowl is always stocked up
- Whenever you provide lunches for team meetings, make sure they’re healthy
- Don’t make sugary drinks available in the office — replace them with fruit juices and other healthy drinks
Don’t be afraid to hire new staff
If your current workforce is underperforming and there’s seemingly nothing you can do to get more work out of them, you shouldn’t be afraid to hire new staff. Taking this action will either see you hire workers that are capable of working at the level that you require, or it will encourage your current employees to buck up their ideas.
Should you ever decide to bring new faces on board, it’s imperative that you go about the hiring process in the right way. Don’t go ahead and give somebody a job just because somebody has recommend them to you, and certainly don’t do so without putting them through their paces beforehand. You’re running a business, not a charity, and you need to ensure that anybody you hire is up to the task of carrying your business forward.
To ensure that you only ever interview relevant applicants, you should be sure to go through all the right hiring and channels and processes. First and foremost, you should use a field-specific recruitment platform to source workers that are an expert in the department you wish to bolster; should you wish to hire new accounting staff, for example, this would mean using financial advisor recruitment agencies. By taking this action, you will be able to ensure that you hire the right workers for the right jobs.
