Your team members may feel the same way when they are working on several tasks at once or in an environment that is not favourable to concentration. Does it have to be this way?
The answer to the question posed in the title can be short: "And who among us did not have such a problem with the computer!". Then it appears that at some stage the processor becomes so overloaded that you gradually observe increasingly delayed reactions of the machine to your commands. First it starts to "lag", then you can lose control of the device and the monitor and cursor just freeze.
Like it or not, humans also have their limitations: distractors (notifications, phone calls, etc.), working in an environment that is not favourable to concentration, doing many tasks at the same time.
It is supposed to be faster, but it turns out to be slower, because the tasks are not completed accurately and then they have to be revisited and corrected.
Conclusion? If we want an employee to perform tasks as quickly and efficiently as possible, we should provide them with a friendly working environment.
How to do it?
We can collect all tasks in one place, accessible to all employees, thus providing employees with one certain source of tasks to complete and eliminating the problem of distractors, employees will not have to "listen" to multiple channels to maintain readiness to accept more tasks.
We can also create clear, objective rules for assigning individual tasks to specific employees so that everyone knows which task they have to do now and does not have to waste time prioritising them, e.g:
We can take action to introduce a focus-oriented working environment by means of measures such as:
These are examples of common, simple and spot-on methods of solving a problem, but we can also apply a system method. How?
We like to compare this task rain (which results in working on several tasks simultaneously, working in a system environment not conducive to concentration) to a game of Tetris.
Do you know this iconic game? There is a moment in Tetris when the tasks flow so chaotically and in such a disordered way that we are unable to stack the blocks properly and "game over" occurs.
Using the symbols of this game, the systemic solution of the problem can be illustrated in a simplified way by means of a schematic graphic as below.
Systemic problem solving comes directly down to introducing a solution that:
As a result, it is possible to improve productivity by focusing on one task at a time and ensuring that it is the right task for the employee at that time. Tasks, in the end, are completed faster and better also from a quality perspective.
This is only 1 of 14 time and energy eaters of employees and managers that we have identified in the course of our long-term experience in over 500 Business Services, Back Office and Middle Office teams in dozens of countries on 5 continents. The presented system solution eliminates these eaters as well.
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