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Three ways monday.com helps teams boost efficiency

Alexa Moritz 7 min read
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Research shows that businesses that do more with fewer resources have up to 50% higher operating margins than their less productive counterparts. By uncovering ways to be more efficient, such as leveraging the right software, you can increase productivity and reduce waste.

In this blog, you’ll come away with some efficiency best practices and learn how to accomplish more with templates that improve work, promote collaboration, and maximize resources.

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The benefits of increased efficiency

Increased efficiency is all about getting as much as possible out of the work your team delivers. But there are other advantages as well, including:

Less waste: Improving efficiency and streamlining tasks helps throughput, boosts productivity margins, and decreases the carbon footprint for your office, industrial process, and environmental reports.

Using a process that requires the same form for different departments? Save effort and eliminate a paper trail by keeping the information in a single central location, such as a cloud-based curated template.

Improved morale: Inefficient or tedious processes can make employees feel frustrated or less dedicated to their role.

Implementing a process that reduces waste and increases each person’s productivity can improve morale and result in stronger engagement, and improved retention.

Tip: provide the space for your employees to make suggestions about how to improve a process and then brainstorm how you can implement their suggestions. They’ll feel heard, which can raise engagement, and you can improve efficiency and increase your impact.

Higher profits: Switching to a template-based process saves time. Instead of having to manually fill in the steps for each new process or come up with the structure, you’ll already have the basis of a successful plan. Save different processes as a template so that when when one process needs to resemble another, you can spend less time planning and jump right in.

Improved regulatory compliance: Adopting a central workflow model increases efficiency and ensures filings and compliance measures stay transparent and manageable. This is especially important for government-regulated businesses. Templates help ensure teams always include important details and follow protocols.

Workflow of a project timeline

The benefits of increasing efficiency stretch from a team level to the company level. Though not all strategies will work for every team, there are some tricks you can use to get the most out of your resources.

What are some best practices for increasing efficiency?

There are general guidelines to increasing efficiency — practices that can work together or stand independently, be implemented partially or adopted by your entire org. No matter your approach, they can make a difference for your workflow.

Let’s explore a few best practices:

1. Automate processes

Any time you can automate a task or workflow, you can save time and reduce human error.

Automations help ensure tasks get completed faster than if done manually. 

Let’s say a customer service process requires a frontline operator to triage incoming calls and refer them to the correct department. An automated directory that lets callers choose the correct department would save time and be able to handle more calls. 

2. Encourage communication

Creating a work environment that facilitates rapid communication between team members—even those working remotely—is essential.

Spending a few minutes each day clarifying instructions, multiplied by dozens or hundreds of employees can be a huge time saver.

Creating a shared, virtual environment for work-from-home employees that makes it easy to collaborate and keep everyone accountable can improve time management.

3. Reduce distractions and promote single-tasking

Distractions come in many forms from technology to multitasking.

Although it might feel more productive to do multiple things at once, multitasking may lessen task completion. When the phone keeps ringing or you answer every email within minutes of getting it, productivity inevitably suffers.

Utilize a work software that allows you and your team to set task priorities, track progress, and understand how much each task takes with a built in time-tracking tool.

4. Implement task management software and standardized templates

Project management software has a wide range of benefits, among those is increasing efficiency for teams and larger organization.

A single, central hub—such as a Work OS—encourages a clear flow of ideas and actions that cut down on miscommunications and production snags.

With a Work OS, teams can make changes to the template from a central location, encouraging knowledgeable supervisors and team leads to implement improvements with a simple update, task creation, or automation.

You can use the above tips to improve productivity and innovation, but without a team or company that’s willing to adapt to quickly changing needs, you won’t get as much done in shorter timeframes. This is why many companies adopted the agile approach to make they can implement changes fast.

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How do agile organizations increase efficiency?

One trademark of successful organizations is that they’re often willing to make continuous improvements to workflows, build feedback into processes, and stay open to suggestions for improvement.

If you can find a solution that supports these goals, your organization is on track to a more efficient process.

The monday.com DMAIC template, for example, is ideal for project managers looking to continuously track improvements. In this structured, five-step process improvement plan, product and project managers can skip the document setup phase and get right into improving processes.

Image of a DMAIC template on monday.com

Aside from the DMAIC template, monday.com has several features and tools that can help any team achieve more with less. Let’s take a look at what those are.

Three ways monday.com helps teams boost efficiency

Using powerful cloud services and advanced work management tools, monday.com Work OS helps users build efficient processes for everything from sales and social media engagement to order fulfillment and customer service.

Our Work OS offers several benefits to boost efficiency right away, including:

  1. Centralizing work processes, tools, and essential files: Through a centralized, cloud-hosting approach, monday.com puts all the tools your team needs—such as Zoom, automations, tagging features, and more— in a single spot for easy access and use. With our Time Study Template, you can handle several aspects of the retail process at once. Track your time, process orders, resolve customer complaints, and communicate changes to everyone involved on a Work OS template.
  2. Better and more efficient cross and inter-department communication: Break down barriers that lead to miscommunication and lost opportunities by bridging silos with a single point of reference. The monday.com Work OS creates a central point to flexibly form and rearrange teams, tag and assign team members to tasks, write updates to keep relevant parties informed, set deadlines, and plenty more. This, in turn, boosts efficiency, employee participation, and idea sharing.
  3. A more standard process and format: A Work OS that all employees can easily use simplifies almost every other part of a business. For example, the monday.com Recruitment and Onboarding Template ensures new employees can onboard more efficiently by immediately giving them access to relevant resources, allowing them to ask questions in context of the work or resource, and know who to contact for assignments.

 

screenshot of the monday.com time tracking column

Are you ready to start working more efficiently?

Book a quick call with our team of experts today to discuss your goals and how monday.com can help you achieve more, more efficiently.

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