锻炼生产力赋权劳动力

新的一年的开始常常带来对组织，重新思考和重组生活和工作的新的承诺。

《电子商务时报》采访了生产力专家，以获取他们对有助于组织和个人提高效率的应用程序，平台和技术的看法。

ClickUp首席执行官Zeb Evans对《电子商务时报》说：“生产力应用改变了企业的工作方式，使他们能够全面提高生产力和效率。”

“这一趋势肯定是由向远程工作的过渡所激发的，但是在过去的几年中我们也已经看到了这一趋势。

“通过将所有工作整合到一个工具中，企业已经开始了解在整个组织内建立更好的一致性以及对项目，流程和进度的可见性的威力，并且通过将这些运营转移到数字平台中，正在为企业带来新的灵活性。工作场所。”

选择系统

找到正确的生产力系统意味着理解一个人的状况，目标和需求-然后持续使用该系统，直到开始产生有益的结果。

生产力软件公司Doist的创始人兼首席执行官AmirSalihefendić向《电子商务时报》解释说：“没有正确使用生产力工具，就不会自动提高您的生产力。” “而且每个人都是不同的，所以对一个人有效的方法并不适用于每个人。”

为了帮助人们设计出适合他们的生产力系统，Doist设计了一个测验，分析了个人的特定偏好，以便推荐特定的技术。

Salihefendić向《电子商务时报》解释说：“结果可以根据您的独特优势，挑战和目标，为您确定哪种生产力方法最适合您，然后提供有用的信息和技巧，以更好地适合您的工作方式。”

时间管理工具

应用程序和平台可用于提高公司内个人的生产率，从而提高整个公司的效率。

Evans说：“我们建立了一个平台，将所有工作要素整合到一个地方，为组织内的所有人员和所有团队工作。”

“不同于其他只关注人员工作方式的生产力工具，它仅适用于特定团队或用例，ClickUp是一个完全可定制的生产力平台，可取代组织中所有其他工作场所应用，并为用户提供从项目管理到聊天的一切功能，文档，时间管理，Wiki，目标，OKR和仪表板；使他们能够工作自己想要的工作方式，同时避免了在工具之间来回浪费时间。”

实际上，时间管理是大多数旨在提高生产率的系统的关键组成部分。

“成功的生产力应用程序应该可以节省您的时间，” Evans补充说。“该应用程序需要允许组织内的所有人员和所有团队以对他们最有效的方式工作。为此，生产力应用程序显然也应该可靠，因为它在以下方面具有至关重要的作用：企业及其项目的生命。”

理想情况下，提高工作效率可以帮助员工在工作与生活之间取得更好的平衡，从而帮助企业成功。

Salihefendić解释说：“如果您的员工按时完成工作，他们将拥有更好的工作/生活平衡和大脑空间，可以思考常规职责以外的其他挑战。” “这将增加产量并为您的公司节省资金。如果您的团队富有成效并致力于他们的工作，那么他们的工作质量和数量都会得到改善。”

以身作则

专家说，通常，公司内部有效的生产力实践始于高层，并逐渐渗透到组织的整体文化中。因此，对于业务领导者来说，认真对待自己的生产力和时间管理技能非常重要。

“首先，提高办公室生产力的最佳方法是通过展示有效的项目和时间管理来对良好的行为进行建模，” Asana全球互动营销负责人兼认证专业组织者Joshua Zerkel向电子商务时报解释说。“为了实现真正的生产力，企业需要定义重要的事情，消除干扰，并赋予员工最佳工作的能力。”

明确目标也是任何生产力实践的重要组成部分。

泽克尔说：“对于希望提高生产率，最终提高整体业务绩效的企业而言，重要的是要制定一套明确的目标，并从阶梯的角度进行沟通。”

“一旦期望被概述，创建短期目标的子集将有助于提供坚实的基础，使管理人员可以清楚地了解哪些任务与公司范围的目标相符。这反过来又可以使个人做出明智的决定他们需要根据实际动向进行优先排序。”

生产力的未来

在当代世界中，个人和企业都在努力使工作（尤其是远程工作）更具生产力和可持续性。 ClickUp的Evans表示：“生产力领域的未来是进一步整合和定制化之一。 “随着远程工作的进行，越来越多的团队正在采用这些工具，并且这种趋势只会随着工作的未来走向灵活的家庭和办公室环境而持续下去。

“随着团队利用更多的数字工具保持一致，至关重要的是这些工具必须在一个地方提供越来越多的功能，因此用户不必管理多个工具，也不会浪费时间来回管理所有工作。”

最终，远程工作的生产力经验教训也将对办公室工作产生影响。

Salihefendić说：“尽管我认为远程工作是未来，但我认为异步通信是团队生产力的一个更为重要的因素，无论您的团队是否处于远程状态。”

“由于当今工具的所有干扰和干扰，让人无法完成最好的工作。人们在会议或电子邮件中花费大量时间。异步不仅可以产生最佳的工作结果，还可以使人们进行更有意义的工作并享有更自由，更充实的生活。他说：“我们知道我们正在挑战现状，而平静的异步通信不是当前的规范。大流行已在远程扩大了工作范围，所以也许这是改变事物所需要的范式转变。”

新年，新机会

每年-尤其是这一年-每年都有机会评估有效的，无效的以及下一步要做的事情。 Zerkel说：“由于在过去十年中迅速采用了基于云的同类最佳工具，现代工作场所提供了前所未有的协作和创建方式。” “随着我们进入2021年，至关重要的是，公司必须通过明确的工作完成流程来解决远程工作问题，以便它们能够在来年蓬勃发展，并且比以前更具弹性和协调性。”

原文标题：Practicing Productivity to Empower the Workforce

原文：

The start of a new year often brings with it a renewed commitment to organizing, rethinking, and restructuring life and work.

The E-Commerce Times spoke with productivity experts to get their perspective on apps, platforms, and techniques that help organizations and individuals become more efficient.

"Productivity apps have changed the way businesses work and are enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency across the board," Zeb Evans, CEO of ClickUp, told the E-Commerce Times.

"This trend has certainly been spurred by the transition to remote work, but it was something we were already seeing in the years before as well.

"By aligning all work within one tool, businesses have begun to understand the power of creating better alignment across their entire organization and visibility into projects, processes and progress, and by moving these operations into digital platforms, it is opening up new flexibility in the workplace."

Choosing a System

Finding the right productivity system means understanding one's situation, goals, and needs -- and then using that system consistently until it starts to have beneficial results.

"No productivity tool will automatically increase your productivity if you don't use it correctly," Amir Salihefendić, founder and CEO of productivity software company Doist, explained to the E-Commerce Times. "And everyone is different, so what works for one person does not apply to everyone."

In order to help people come up with a productivity system that works for them, Doist has designed a quiz that analyzes an individual's particular preferences in order to recommend particular techniques.

"The results provide clarity into which productivity method works best for you based on your unique strengths, challenges and goals, and then offers helpful information and tips to better suit your working style," Salihefendić explained to the E-Commerce Times.

Time Management Tools

Apps and platforms can be used to boost the productivity of individuals within a company -- thus boosting the efficiency of a company as a whole.

"We built a platform that brings all elements of work into one place that works for all people and all teams within an organization," said Evans.

"Unlike other productivity tools that are opinionated about how people work and only work for specific teams or use cases, ClickUp is a fully-customizable productivity platform that replaces all other workplace apps across an organization and provides users with everything from project management to chat, docs, time management, wikis, goals and OKRs, and dashboards; and enables them to work how they want to work while getting rid of wasted time going back and forth between tools," he asserted.

Time management is, in fact, a key component of most systems aimed at improving productivity.

"A successful productivity app should save you time," Evans added. "The app needs to allow all people and all teams within an organization to work in the way that is most effective for them, in order to do this. Finally, a productivity app should also obviously be reliable, since it serves a critical function in the life of a business and its projects."

Improved productivity at work can, ideally, help employees achieve a better balance between work and life -- thus helping a business itself to succeed.

"If your employees complete their work on time, they have better work/life balance and the brain space to think through other challenges outside their regular responsibilities," explained Salihefendić. "This increases output and saves your company money. If your team is productive and dedicated to their work, both the quality and quantity of their work will improve."

Lead by Example

Often, experts say, effective productivity practices within a company start at the top and filter down into the organization's overall culture. It's important, therefore, for business leaders to take their own productivity and time management skills seriously.

"First and foremost, the best way to increase productivity around the office is to model good behavior by showing effective project and time management in action," Joshua Zerkel, head of global engagement marketing at Asana, and certified professional organizer, explained to the E-Commerce Times. "To achieve real productivity, businesses need to define what matters, remove distractions, and empower employees to do their best work."

Having clear goals, too, is a vital component of any productivity practice.

"For businesses looking to increase productivity, and ultimately overall business performance, it's important to create a well-defined set of goals that can be communicated from a ladder-up perspective," said Zerkel.

"Once expectations have been outlined, creating a subset of shorter-term goals helps provide a firm foundation, allowing managers to provide a clear vision for what tasks align with company-wide goals. This will, in turn, empower individuals to make informed decisions about what they need to prioritize based on what's going to really move the needle."

Future of Productivity

In the contemporary world, individuals and businesses alike are striving to make work -- and particularly remote work -- more productive and sustainable.

"The future of the productivity space is one of further consolidation and customization," said ClickUp's Evans. "More and more teams are adopting these tools in the wake of remote work, and this trend will only continue as the future of work moves towards a flexible home and office situation.

"As teams leverage more digital tools to stay aligned, it will be crucial that these tools provide more and more features in one place, so users don't have to manage multiple tools and waste time going back and forth managing all their work."

Ultimately, the productivity lessons of working remotely will have implications for working in an office, as well.

"While I think remote work is the future, I believe that asynchronous communication is an even more important factor in team productivity, whether your team is remote or not," said Salihefendić.

"With all the distractions and pings from tools today, it can feel impossible to get your best work done. People spend so much time inside meetings or email. Not only does async produce the best work results, it also lets people do more meaningful work and live freer, more fulfilled lives.

"We know that we are challenging the status quo, and that calm, asynchronous communication isn't the current norm. The pandemic has amplified working remotely, so perhaps, this is the paradigm shift needed to change things," he remarked.

New Year, New Opportunities

Each year -- and perhaps most especially this one -- brings with it the opportunity to evaluate what's worked, what hasn't, and what to do next.

"Thanks to rapid adoption of cloud-based, best-in-breed tools in the past decade, the modern workplace offers more ways than ever before to collaborate and create," said Zerkel.

"As we enter 2021, it will be essential that companies address remote work issues by adopting clear processes on how work gets done, so they can thrive in the year ahead and come out more resilient and aligned than before."