By Fernando Berrocal

Following the introduction of your brand-new startup, you'll want to develop it as fast as possible to produce more revenue for your organization, secure greater stability, and enhance the overall reputation of your brand. 

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An efficient workforce, on the other hand, is one of the keys to effective scaling; if your employees work productively and consistently, they'll be able to make your vision a reality in a time. However, if they are having difficulty completing their task for whatever reason that they might have, you might find yourself in a loop.

What exactly motivates your employees in a recently established startup? So, what makes an employee effective in any new business? And what can you do to improve the actual situation of your employees? There are “Startup Productivity Issues”, which are an important problem to have. Every business has potential productivity difficulties; however, startups have some issues that are specific to them. We will name the main problems with startup productivities: 

•  Budget Constraint:  You're usually operating with a limited budget when you're establishing a business. You may have a limited source of money to support the employment of additional staff since you don't have much revenue. This makes it difficult to find experienced, skilled workers and limits the number of people you can hire.

•  Tested Workflows: Even if you design a streamlined, effective process from start, there's no guarantee that the "practice" will match the "theory." For instance, you may have a productive workflow in which one person is in the responsibility of reporting and another is in charge of updating and acting on that report. However, if the technology fails or the roles aren't a good fit, even this basic procedure will rapidly break apart. 

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•  Uncertainty: You may have a detailed, comprehensive business plan to serve as the blueprint for your business's present and future, but there's no guarantee it will turn out the way you expect. Startups must be able to adapt to new developments and conditions.

•  Role malleability:  Startups frequently require their workers to have responsibilities that may be modified. Because you may not have the space or resources to recruit hundreds of specialists, you'll need generalists who can fulfill numerous jobs and perform various tasks at the same time. This makes it difficult for anybody to achieve peak productivity, and if you're not cautious, it may bring your entire business down.

Is Productivity the Most Important Thing? This is an important topic to address. The short answer is no, but it is the key to unlocking all of your other desires. You'll have to consider your startup's profitability. However, with effective staff, your expenses will drop, client loyalty will rise, and your business model will be far more likely to succeed. You'll have to consider staff retention. However, many of the techniques that increase staff productivity also increase retention. What actions can you take to boost your business' profitability?

• Culture: 

• Work ethic: The value of personal drive must be emphasized. Hiring genuinely driven people who will always perform their best job, with or without supervision, is excellent.
• Teamwork: You must establish a tone from the start that teamwork and collaboration are mutually beneficial. This will inspire your staff to work well together.
• Fitting personality: When people are surrounded by people they like, they work more effectively. While certain personality clashes are inevitable, it is beneficial to recruit individuals who are cheerful, and cooperative so that disputes are minimized.

• Tools:

• Hardware:  Your employees don't need the most cutting-edge tools to perform at their best, but they should be practical and quick.
• Software. You'll also want to make sure that your workers have access to software that may help them work more efficiently. Good software is quick, efficient, and reliable, and constructed.
• Possibility of transformation: Perhaps most essential, you and your employees must be willing to adapt to new situations. Technology develops quickly, and you must be agile enough to upgrade to new trends and devices that become available.

•  Processes & Workflows:

• Redundancy is limited:  You don't want many members of your team working on the same project at the same time. 
• Autonomy. Allowing your staff some degree of autonomy is a smart idea. The labor cost of each action is double since decision-making is slow and requires the entire team.
• Consistency and Reliability: Above all else, your workflows and procedures should be optimized for consistency and reliability. They should be able to accurately anticipate all possible outcomes, as well as create a roadmap for employees to follow to always take the "correct" course of action.
• Documentation. Even if they're vulnerable to change in the future, your workflows and procedures should be documented. It takes time to record procedures, but the more formalized they are, the easier they are to evaluate, the better your staff will follow them.

Increasing Productivity: It's hard to succeed in increasing production without some sort of monitoring and analytic system in place. It's not enough to implement a few tactics and hope that your staff is productive; you need statistics to back up your statements. Pay attention to the number of hours worked, the number of activities accomplished, and even the subjective feedback provided by your employees. The more you understand how your workers operate, the more certain you can be that your productivity methods are performing as they should. You could discover that some of your strategies aren't working and can remove them before it's too late. You'll be in a much better position to create long-term changes to your workforce's productivity if you take this productivity strategy and remain open to experimentation.

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