5 Top Tips to improve your team's productivity

“Team productivity is like a fire. You can’t make it burn, but you can light it and fan the flames.”

Ever noticed how two people can be radically different in their level of productivity. One person can produce two or three times the results in the same time frame. Even the Chancellor, George Osborne has been criticised for skimming over the UK’s skills shortage issue in his recently released productivity plan, ‘Fixing the Foundations’.

The government has promised to “simplify and streamline” the number of qualifications available in the professional and technical education system, but some have criticised the government for not fully tacking the skills challenges faced by businesses. The CBI, for example, says skills shortages have already started to bite and warns that sectors seen as key by ministers are particularly hard-pressed, according to its annual skills survey. “The government has set out its stall to create a high-skilled economy, but firms are facing a skills emergency now, threatening to starve economic growth,” said the CBI deputy director general, Katja Hall. It will be very interesting to see what happens, especially with regard to the provision of good quality apprenticeships.

So in the wake of the Budget 2015 announcement, and as we wait to hear how the government’s plans for to help boost business productivity come to fruition, here are my 5 Top Tips on how to make YOUR teams work more productively starting as of now:-