The Top 10 Tips to Measure Productivity in a Personal Level
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This article discusses some tips that an employee can use to measure his/her how productivity level other than what the company provides.
Companies have ways of measuring their employee’s productivity levels. Most of the time, if the levels are on an average scale, the employees are not informed of their results. It is only when an employee performs outstandingly that he is commended, or reprimanded and advised for training when he performs poorly. If you as an employee are looking to improve your own productivity level, aside from that measured of the company, you need to measure it yourself. Here are 10 tips that will help you measure your productivity level simply and during your free time.
10. Determine Your Unit of Productivity – Determine what you are going to measure. For those workers who work based on unit output like factory workers this is an easy task. All you have to do is to count the exact number of units they produce within a given time. It may be harder for those who are ‘information workers’ or those that do not have exact units that can be measured.
9. First 10% of a task – It is said that the first 10% of a task takes up nearly 40% of the time allotted for the entire procedure. If you time yourself on how long it takes you to finish the first 10% percent, then you will have an idea of how fast you work. With this productivity measurement, you can now find ways to improve your productivity level.
8. The last 10% - Similar to the first 10% of a task the last 10% takes up another 40% or so of the entire time. Also similar with the first 10%, you need to know the time it takes you to wrap up a task so that you can get an idea of how fast you work.
7. Checklists – At the start of each day, compile a checklist of the things that you need to do for that day. When work ends, check your checklist and see how much of the things on your list you were able to achieve. The more things that you get to achieve, the higher your productivity level must be.
6. Output / Hours – If you work on an output basis, say, you work in a factory or if you are a graphic artist that works on a project and output basis, this is the best type of productivity measure for you. You can time yourself the moment you start to work and then at then end of a period of time, divide your output via the number of hours that took you to finish them. This is one of the more specific output computations since you will be getting an exact number.
5. Over Your Shoulder – Try and look at the performance of your coworker. This may help you gauge if you are performing at the optimum scale that the company requires of you.
4. Pay Attention to Criticism – Criticism negative or positive will open a window into your productivity quality. This will give you an idea of how you are being viewed by your coworkers and those above you. Improving on negative and positive criticisms will help you increase your productivity measurement.
3. Jot Down Notes – Once you have plotted which method you will use to determine your level of productivity. Perform it periodically and make it a habit to jot down notes about the events that have affected your level of productivity in that given time as well as your score.
2. Compare from Week to Week – When you have started to take down you productivity levels, you can then start to compare your scores from one week to another in order to determine if you have improved your performance or not.
1. Keep up to date and Research – Visit the library or even search the internet. Everyday, new ways of measuring productivity are developed and you can utilize these studies and methods to help you determine what productivity measurement method is the right one for you.
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