Productivity Tips from a 24/7 Delivery Courier
If you had to rank your productivity on the job with a 1-10 scale, how would you rank yourself?
What if your boss was reading this? Would the number be different? Ready to hear something shocking? 70% of workers feel disengaged while they’re on the clock.
Of course, when you have a job like that of a 24/7 delivery courier, productivity is your job. If you don’t move those sensitive, fragile, or bulky items in the most productive manner, you’ve lost a customer.
Undoubtedly, productivity is just as vital to the success of your organization. With so many employees feeling disengaged when they’re on the clock, the battle to remain productive becomes an uphill one. Other barriers to productivity include:
Social media
Poor communication within the workplace
Employee unhappiness
Small distractions like phone calls or emails
Office layout and lighting
According to the top businesses in the world, improvements in productivity are a top priority, but less than a quarter of these businesses actually had a strategy for keeping employees locked in on their tasks.
Since we’ve been in the business of being productive with your urgent and scheduled deliveries for over three decades, we can give you a pointer or two in this area.
If you’re looking to boost your productivity on the job, or you’re a business owner looking to motivate your employees to increase their productivity, here are a few things you might want to consider:
Take a break hourly- Sounds counterproductive, right? But our one hour delivery team can tell you just how much you can get done in an hour, and if you’re working hard, one hour’s worth of work deserves a ten minute break. The most productive employees report working for an average of 52 minutes before taking a 17 minute break.
Don’t multitask- You think it’s helping, but it isn’t. Research shows that taking the time to complete each task, in order of importance, leads to more of those things getting done and less wasted time.
Manage your email- If you stop to read an email every time your computer dings, you’ll be spending hours just reading and replying to emails. Cut the distraction by turning off notifications and designating a few set times during the day to read and answer emails. Just make sure it’s not first thing in the morning.
Exercise on your lunch break- Stress can have a great impact on productivity. 57% of employees who reported feeling stressed said it made them disengaged and less productive. One easy way to cut the stress? Get some exercise.
Hold fewer meetings- Having a meeting to have a meeting is a terrible plan. Research has consistently shown that meetings longer than 15-30 minutes are not productive. After a half hour, attention levels drop, and your meeting becomes useless.
One final bonus tip from our 24/7 delivery couriers is to delegate.
If there are tasks that lie outside of your core competencies, give them up. Take, for example, your transportation and logistics processes. Delegating that task to a professional frees up your time, energy, and creativity to complete the procedures that are central to your organization. You stick to your mission, and let a courier like Eagle Express stick to ours.
We’re committed to be “On Time, Every Time” with your routine, urgent, and temperature sensitive items. You reap the benefits of fast and dependable deliveries while remaining on task at your workplace, focused on your own productivity.
Ready to partner with the number one, 24/7 delivery courier in DFW? Contact Eagle Express today. Drop us a line here on our website, or give us a call today.