“Viewpoint” is a new series of opinion posts from WorkSync that spotlight our take on the big ideas affecting today’s workforce and businesses.

What does it really mean to be efficient?

According to the dictionary, it means “achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.”

Let’s stop and think about that for a second. Maximum productivity. Minimum wasted effort or expense. It’s a simple concept, yet how many of us can honestly say our businesses are living up to it? But what if we could? How revolutionary — how game-changing — would it be if we were truly able to maximize our output while eliminating wasted labor and costs? It would transform the very fabric of our organizations.

That is the power of efficiency.

Consider for a moment all the time and effort your team devotes, day in and day out, to tedious administrative tasks. Cumbersome processes. Busywork. Now imagine the possibilities that would arise if those burdens were lifted. If your team were allowed to focus on the core work of your business, the work that really matters. If they had greater bandwidth to strategize and innovate. The sky would be the limit.

We can all get there, but first we need to take a long, hard look at how our organizations currently operate. Do we have the right systems in place? Are we doing things as smoothly and seamlessly as we could be? Or are unwieldy, outdated processes holding us back? Are we weighing down our teams with administrative baggage when we should be setting them free to soar?

These are tough questions, and it can be challenging to re-evaluate how our businesses function, but now’s the perfect time to dive in. In many ways, theCOVID-19 pandemic and its reverberations have given us a unique opportunity for a reset. We can pause and take stock. We can see how our old procedures may be keeping us from growing and thriving in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace.

So let’s not be afraid to put our organizations under the microscope. Let’s find all the areas where we could be doing things faster, smarter, and more effectively, and let’s give new, cutting-edge systems and solutions a try. Most importantly, let’s get rid of those onerous administrative burdens and empower our teams with the time and energy to do what they do best: create, problem-solve, and drive success.

Let’s be efficient, in the fullest sense of the word.

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