Agile Working is What Your Productivity Needs

Have you heard about agile working? If you haven’t you need to take a look – read here to find out more about how your business can be more productive.

A recent study found that 70% of managers experienced increased productivity after making the switch to agile working.

So, what is agile working exactly?

It involves creating a workplace and following a set of principles and procedures to create an inspired and overall more productive organization.

This works by allowing employees to work in a variety of different locations with the main goal of achieving top-notch results efficiently and effectively. Disregarding the age-old theory of the more time you spend in the office or desk, the better the employee you are.

Instead, it is an approach focused on producing the best results possible; no matter where what, when, or how.

If you own a business or have a leadership role, it’s time to look into agile working and employ it in your workplace.

Not only will your employees respond to it, but the company as a whole will perform much better.

How productivity and agile working go hand in hand:

It’s a new way of working

What your company has to understand is that agile working can’t just be thrown into the work culture without the proper training and commitment.

A culture has to be created that encourages results and performance rather than where and how much time the employee took to complete something. All leadership in your company will need to embrace this kind of work and create a new mindset for your employees.

A recent study found that agile and flexible working will be used by 70% percent of organizations by 2020.  It’s not just a fad. This is a new way of working that applies to trust and responsibility to produce quality results.

It brings out the best in your employees

If your employees are given more flexible hours and overall better work-life balance, it will show in your results.

When your team is happy and able to work when they want, they will achieve much more and be a lot less drained, stressed, and tied down.

And, guess what? Your employees will still be able to communicate with each other through conference calls, and virtual technologies like Skype.

It will bring out the best in your employees and in return, bring out the best in your company’s productivity and results.

It focuses on high-quality results

Like we mentioned above, the old stigma of needing to be in the office to show you’re committed and doing your job is an idea of the past.

Agile working encourages all employees to do what makes them the most productive, whether it be working somewhere else for the day or coming into the office.

With all of the digital technologies out there and ways to connect to the cloud, employees will be encouraged to maintain and form stronger relationships with their clients and coworkers. With more freedom and time to work on client-based relationships, more productivity and business will occur.

While agile working still employs the same work and tasks, it gives the employees the opportunity to discover the most effective ways to produce high-quality results.

It motivates everyone

The whole point of agile working is to motivate your workforce. Agile working was created to allow employees to be the most innovative, inspired, and motivated versions of themselves.

And, what follows high levels of motivation? That’s right, increased productivity.

This type of culture gives employees the opportunity to relieve some stress, get the proper amount of sleep and work-life balance, so they will be happy and ready to perform every day.

Agile working is no longer just an idea people have discussed, it’s being used by big companies like Unilever and Google in the world today.

When employees go out looking for interviews and when employers go out recruiting, an agile and flexible work environment is going to be something that people look for.

Remember that agile working isn’t working completely from home, the employee is still expecting to come into the office. It’s rather giving the employee the trust to produce their best work in the way that works for them.

If some of the most successful companies in the world are using this tactic, why shouldn’t your company? What are you waiting for?

Visit beLithe to get starting with an agile transformation through training and guidance from our knowledgeable team.

In the third episode of Death, Taxes, and Change, Brent Shopp of PurposeHQ takes us into the realm of talent optimization.

I really enjoyed my conversation with Brent.  As a co-founder and Purpose Maker at PurposeHQ, I have been working with Brent over the last 6 months on concepts that have resulted in beLithe’s new approach of Head, Heart, and Briefcase.  BTW, Brent suggested the HHB concept after listening to me whine about the struggles I was having.

Brent was Brent I got to know Jeremy at a healthcare startup where we worked together for a year in pretty trying circumstances.  Jeremy’s journey is intriguing to me as he didn’t start out in software development, but had to pivot when his first career didn’t work out for him.

Jeremy graduated from Purdue with a BS degree in Engineering.  After working in a couple of manufacturing companies, Jeremy made the leap into software development.  Jeremy decided that he didn’t love what he was doing, so he jumped into software development.  Teaching himself the basics, Jeremy’s journey has included working for a bitcoin startup, a healthcare startup, and consulting as an independent consultant.  His current stop is at Crowe as a team-lead.  Jeremy is one of the most gifted developers I have worked with.  His journey into leadership roles is one that I am going to pay close attention to.

I love talking to Jeremy. I always walk away from our conversations scratching my head amazed at the insights he provides.

You can get to Death, Taxes, and Change by clicking here for Apple Podcasts or here for Libsym .

I hope you enjoy the episode.

Chris