Productivity at your daily life

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One of the best ways to increase productivity is to consolidate and better coordinate your efforts at every opportunity. Every day in almost every way each of us is looking for ways to make life easier and boost own personal productivity. It seems that every day more is added to our ‘to do list’ which leads to a negative impact on our personal performance. This growing frustration calls for a need by each of us to assume personal responsibility for developing some method or approach enabling us to handle larger work loads. Since we can not create more time the need to make better use of the time we got seems to be the answer.

Here is a 5 step categorization process anybody can use to better organize their time, efforts and increase their personal productivity.

Determine Daily ‘Demands’

Take all those tasks and assigned responsibilities you are faced with and determine which need to be done every day. Simply categorize these as part of your daily chores or tasks and move on to the next step.

Determine Weekly ‘Demands’

Separate anything you are required or desire to do that is a ‘weekly’ necessity. Now you may have some things that require attention maybe one than just once during the week but not everyday. Assign these responsibilities to their appropriate day and move on to the next step which is…..

Determine Monthly ‘Demands’

Separate and categorize any responsibility that only requires completion on a monthly basis. At this point you likely will be contending with a smaller list of items from your ‘to do’ list.  Are you beginning to breathe more slowly again?

Combine Any Related ‘Demands’

Now go back into every category you have created above and sort through each responsibility to find any that can be combined with another. For instance you may need to be at a particular location to perform a certain task well. If any other tasks can be performed at the same location as well schedule them together for completion which can really help boost your personal productivity. By ‘batching’ your tasks in this way you can make more efficient use of both your time and effort.

Refine

Take your newly organized work schedule for a spin and refine it as you see fit. Every time you make a minor adjustment you will only be increasing your personal productivity and efficiency.

With the hectic lifestyles and work demands everybody today is facing there is an ever present need to increase productivity. Due to these demands our personal productivity, as a result, is diminishing which in turn reflects badly on our personal performance. The need to find a solution to this ongoing ‘problem’ falls squarely on the shoulders of each and every one of us. By taking personal responsibility of the time we are allowed and organizing it we can make better use of our efforts. The 5 step process we have review here can be tailored and use by anybody to regain control of their time and improve upon their own personal performance.  

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When someone applies for a job, a review of criminal records is made. This will provide employers with more record to make a hiring decision. Screening of potential employees or tenants have changed the active standard procedure before a person hired to staff or supported to rent or lease. Background Check has to change the temperament of doing business. Finding criminal figures on employees or potential employees is big business. There is hundreds of staff showed that the company compared to the business on the Internet. A review of criminal records prefecture is one of the basic examination in the event of staff and carried out on a potential employee or tenant. Read the rest of this entry »

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This informative 15-minute video demonstrates why high-quality podcasting is an outstanding way to communicate with your employees and partners. You’ll find out how you can leverage the power of podcasting to: – Educate internal audiences on your products and services – Raise productivity – Improve employee morale – Proactively educate your sales force – Increase internal visibility for your group and projects – Control your companys messages in the marketplace more effectively Please contact us at your convenience to find out more about our services and how you can benefit. Thanks for watching. We look forward to hearing from you! Transcript for Part 1: Host: Are you looking to improve employee morale and productivity? Welcome, I’m Jodi Weidler and we’re here today with John Houghton, CEO and Founder of MobileCast Media to talk about how companies can use podcasting for internal corporate communications. John, the economy is in recession, companies are downsizing. With this as the backdrop, what do you see as the problems in today’s work environment and why are so many companies interested in improving internal communications. John: Well the problem, Jodi, is there is so much uncertainty in today’s work environment. There have been layoffs, people have taken on larger workloads – the people that have stayed behind – they also have to further worry about whether they’re going to in fact loose their own jobs. They’ve been reorganized and now they need to be realigned with …
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In this fast-paced world, it is quite a daunting task to balance the high pressure work environment with family commitments and this is especially true for women. In this video, Dr. Ramanujan Kashi, Senior Research Scientist, Avaya India, will describe technology and solutions which addresses these challenges in providing an environment for flexible work hours, telecommuting, and help in aiding women to succeed in their work places. A few cases studies on how these tools help are also presented. For more videos please visit: www.siliconindia.com/university
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Over the years, the improved channels of telecommunication have paved the way for an increase in number of Telecommuting jobs. Telecommuting occupations are not your typical office work and that is why, it has become a focus of productivity measures issues. There are a lot of myths that surround telecommuting and Productivity Measurements. Some say that measuring productivity is much more difficult in telecommuting rather than in regular office work.

Before going forward, let us first individually define what Productivity and what Telecommuting is. Productivity (in Economics) refers to the amount of output produced in a specific amount of time. In a factory or office setting, this can easily be computed by dividing the number of units of output with the time spent to produce them. For example, an office worker is given the task to compile kits for the participants of a lecture. He was able to compile 25 kits in 1 hour, and that becomes his productivity rate.

Quantitative data is more easily translated into productivity rates rather than qualitative data. On the other hand Telecommuting (otherwise known as working from home) is form of work where the employee works on his or her own schedule. It is called telecommuting because the time and process of commuting to and from the work place are replaced by links of telecommunication. A few of the most popular telecommuting tasks is Medical Transcription and Insurance Underwriting.

The issue that lies between Productivity measurement and Telecommuting are claims saying that Productivity measurement is harder to achieve than with regular office work. This is claimed to be the major downfall of telecommuting. Because of this, employer supposedly has no hold on the productivity of their personnel who work form home.

However, that is really not the case. Productivity Measurements are still easily achievable with Telecommuting Jobs. The rate telecommuting employee works, is the same with every project that he/she receives. A Medical Transcriptionist may complete transcription of 5 files in an hour. No matter how many hours a day a medical transcriptionist chooses to work, his or her hourly rate is still the same.

Another myth about productivity measurement and telecommuting is that an employer has no hold on how much an employee works on a set number of days. This is contradicted by the fact that employers enforce deadlines that a Telecommuting employee must adhere to. In example, an Underwriter is given 10 insurance policies to process in a span of 4 days. It is of no consequence to the employer how his or her Underwriter divides the task over 4 days as long as it is completed within the set number of days.

Telecommuting is a practice that will undoubtedly continue to grow. Despite early fears that it may not be a as easy to regulate and measure as regular office work, it has been proven that it is not so. That is the reason why employers should not shy away from hiring telecommuting personnel because they can still measure and regulate their productivity rate despite not having set office hours.

Rural products: Industry’s role, scope, opportunities and challenges

Introduction:

Rural products of India are unique, innovative and have good utility and values. Large number of these rural products (like handicraft items, food products, embroidery, clothes & other products) sustains a significant segment of the population in the rural areas. Several attributes of rural products can be identified, for which, it has a demand in the market. Out of the lots, ‘ethnic origin’ and ‘indigenous design & appearance’ are two traits of rural products, attracting a premium in the market.

Products in local use are also not marketed horizontally; they often first travel down to market through a long chain of intermediaries and then up to more difficult locations in the rural areas. In the process, the people in rural areas suffer from both low prices as producers and high prices as consumers. In this conflict, rural products loss its equilibrium and the supply side becomes exponentially high. Because of this hazard, rural entrepreneurs face acute economic loss and rural markets become stagnant

Market linkages for rural products

 There are, broadly speaking, three ways in which they can be connected to the markets. They can do it on their own — through cooperatives. Or, the state can do it for them — through its procurement engines. Stages one and two, in a manner of speaking. Today, developmental thinking on market linkages has reached stage three — linkages through companies or industries. Rural markets are regarded as organizations for marketing non-farm products in a traditional setting. Developing rural markets is one of the major concerns of government and  Non-governmental organization in India.

Across India, previous attempts to create such linkages have floundered. Take Assam and other eastern states itself. Around the Eighties, the state government here decided that cooperatives were a great way to consolidate its political base. Loans went to the undeserving. Debts were written off. The institutions slowly got corrupted. As for the linkages provided by the state, these offer uncertain sustainability. Given this context, one can conclude that profit-oriented industry linkages are a more sustainable, more scalable alternative. In this scenario, companies can use the social infrastructure (the self help group et al) as an alternative procurement and distribution chain and vise versa.

Industry’s role in building market linkages:

 To make an effective market linkage, industries have to play as an engine of market, which can generate a brand image of the rural products. This initiative of industries will also strengthen the backward and forward linkages of the rural market, besides, accelerating the innovations of the rural products. Definitely, this strategy will also give a remarkable dividend to the industries & profit making companies. In micro level, it is observed that to create a sustainable market linkage for rural products, industries can develop an ecosystem of Self Help Groups (SHGs) by involving the local communities through village level empowerment. It is nothing less than the next phase in the democratization of commerce. Under this paradigm, industries can create a network with viable marketing channels covering all the linkages from villages to the global level. This architecture provides the right value of procurement through the village procurement centres and rural entrepreneurs can sell their products faster with better price realization. This model is also capable of generating a consumer business and an output business in a win-win scenario, where rural producers can get a wide marketing horizon and the industries shall get a new, lower cost ‘salesforce’.

Scope & opportunities:

The basic scope of this novel initiative will be the mutual benefits of the rural entrepreneurs and industries. The entrepreneurs – primary beneficiaries, SHGs – bridge with the community, participating companies/industries and rural consumers have befitted through a robust commercial relationship. These models of marketing linkages demonstrate a large corporation which can play a major role in reorganizing markets and increasing the efficiency of a rural product generation system.

Because of this sustainable market linkages, rural producers can participate in the benefits of globalization and will also develop their capacity to maintain global quality standard. Nonetheless, it creates new stakeholders for the industry sector. And subsequently, they become part of the firms’ core businesses. The involvement of the private /industry sector at the rural product and market development can also provide opportunities for the development of new services and values to the customers, which will find application in the developed markets. It will be worth mentioning that building a sustainable market linkage through industry’s intervention will also empower the rural mass (producers, farmers & entrepreneurs) to cope with socio-economic problems in the rural society and will ensure economic self –reliance.

Challenges:

 Only consistent performance can convince the skeptics. Therefore, the industries must play a catalytic role to cope with this challenge and should also train the entrepreneurs to develop their managerial and IT skills. On the other hand, the products of the existing and popular brand also stand as threat to the rural products. These global giants (brand) may try to suppress the rural products in the markets with its communication hype. Therefore, developing alternative and additional market linkages for these products is an absolute necessity. Moreover, the low volumes of rural products, high operating cots, high attrition, and absence of local know how and relationships may also create problem in the process. Henceforth, it is essential to make a way out to cope with these odds.

Conclusion:

The core of a scientific approach is to understand the market opportunities for rural products along with the country’s development priorities and to chalk out a strategy where rural industries have an important role to play. While rural products are forced to increasingly become part of global supply chains, these products need to adapt themselves, not only according to the changing tastes of the national market, but also according to changes in tastes in the international market. Therefore, a process is essential to explore the market linkages and capacity building for SHGs through a bottom up approach and continuous dialogue with stakeholders of rural enterprise. This process should ensure the participation of rural people as consumers and producers in the globalization mechanism, with better livelihoods and global access to markets. The real challenge of building a sustainable market linkage starts here.

                                                                                  R.Yuvarani

                                                                                  M.Phil., (Commerce) Research Scholar

                                                                                  Periyar University, Salem.

                                                                                 Ph: 9790410310

                                                                                 yuvarani_ram@yahoo.co.in

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