Organisations may be wondering how to improve work performance. At Bags247, we feel it a cakewalk with personalized reusable shopping bags for business.

Humans by nature have a tendency to get demotivated due to host of factors like lack of new ideas, poor cooperation among staffers, or the tendency of teammates to fail one. It is at this stage, C-Level executives will find it difficult to figure out what exactly created slugs in the firm.

Slugs

We live in a world where changes take place so fast where fast fishes devour the slow fish. Organisations are willing to allow that because they feel the staff has to be smart ones to increase productivity. But that does not happen always.

If investigated properly one will come to a conclusion that the workers are not inherently sluggish. On the other hand, they turned slow due to lack of motivation from the part of management. If can be no appraisal for the last two years or it is no wage rise that made workers lose their enthusiasm to optimise their full talent.

The Cost of Increasing Bandwidth

It is an established fact that people grow their bandwidth to optimise their output. The evolution comes to a point where mind got adjusted to rigours or targets. But how long?

Companies have the policy to raise the bar to maximise profits. It can happen due to HR greed or team lead’s enthusiasm to increase productivity and get their rewards. In this process, the actual productive workers bear the brunt and felt exploited.

To understand this more clearly a person who is handling 40 calls a day, will get a directive to handle 80 calls, that too without affecting the quality or AHT. At that time, the ones who have less bandwidth are eased out and those who augment their bandwidth and get results to receive raises in income or pat on the back by the management.

Well, we can find how organisations face attrition at the same time how least cared are they when they see people leaving the organisation. And what about the cost of recruiting, inducting, training the new ones? Can organisations do so without wasting dollars?

A System Unchanged

A few management gurus have the gumption to tell, ‘workers don’t leave the organisation, but they leave the managers. At this point, a natural question may arise. Who promotes those managers? The answer is the CEO of the organisation. From that, we clearly understand there all happens within the knowledge of the organisation. They know very well that people leave the managers and they don’t care about it because the managers are acting on behalf of company heads or CEOs.

Organisation heads are tough and combative. They have a policy not to listen to the lower rung of the organisation. The heads find reason only in the argument of their immediate subordinates that is next below them not the lowest ones in the vertical hierarchy. It is a universal policy where top ones deal only with their immediate subordinates or managers and they protect their managers. It is a system unchanged.

The Question of Ethics

This can bring good or bad depending on the attitude and style of functioning of the managers. The CEO sees only one factor and it is profitability. They don’t want to compromise on ROI and bottom line profits. Imagine a scenario if the managers are kind and caring, how the workers react to it. Most probably they take advantage of that. It is a sad fact that we rarely find leaders who act tough but with good intentions to make their team productive.

The same leaders often try to reward the hard workers with appraisals, instant rewards or promotions with the intent that the company can grow out of the work of good staff, ethical workers, or productive employees.

Finding the Right Fit!

But what happens too often is people who are talented may not be kind and people who are kind may not be that talented. Balancing these two qualities is often difficult. In this backdrop, organisations should think of promotional strategies to improve productivity instead of finding people combining ethics and talent. Herein comes the relevance of eco-friendly promotional bags as tools to motivate the workers.

Our focus is on thematic campaigns. We are trying to work out a scenario where organisations wake up the slugs from being ineffective or non-productive. There is a reason behind it. Because the slugs were motivated workers a year ago or a few months before. Put it simply - today’s slugs were yesterday’s productive ones. What happened was they underwent some kind of discouragement or turned complacent. Most organisations have them.

We need to probe deeper into the mindset of those who come under the category of falling productivity. In the beginning, they made a conscious effort to increase their bandwidth to produce more. But at that time there was an incentive and today it is stopped as a result of cost-cutting.

Organisations may be wondering for tips to improve performance. At Bags247, what we have in mind is campaigns on good themes.

1.No shake hands, please

As the coronavirus has stretched its tentacles, we denizens should be cautious. The disease is pandemic and everyone needs to avoid handshakes so that it will not attack those who shake hands. Saying hello is ok at this stage. We need campaigns to change habits. Why not motivate the staff with non-woven tote bags promotional?

2. No kisses

Wow! People may protest this as they are so used to kissing. But we live in an emergency situation where we must change our old ways. It is a fact that old habits die hard. But for the sake of saving our lives, we need to change the practice of public display of affection. It is a part of our culture, but what is more important is saving one’s life and not exhibiting affection.

Let the affections be confined only to exchanging words from a safe distance at least until the disease is contained. We indeed need the campaign to educate our staff, often with wholesale reusable bags.

3. Copyright breach

There are times when we know we all are victims of copyright breach. But the delicious irony is that we too breach copyright one way or the other. Many have grouse about that and what is the best way to avoid it?

Peter F Drucker the management guru is of the view that if we print our ideas, we cannot stop others from copying it. He tells if one wants to make his/her idea a secret then better not print it or write it anywhere others can see them.

That is wisdom, let the secret be undisclosed and what we want to reveal, advertise it. At the same time, we can educate everyone on the importance of not violating privacy. The right approach is by organising a campaign against copyright breach attracting many to the idea. We can also think about having stores for children on how many are outwitted due to copyright violations. Try once.

Ideas do matter. People have the interest to listen to ideas if they benefit them. At a time when workers turn sluggish, there should be a way to reactivate them through campaigns to improve the work performance of the employees. Do it right.