Management within companies remains in constant evolution. Improving the productivity of your teams while maintaining their well-being proves to be a major challenge for many managers. If you are short of ideas, here is a list of the most original management techniques that have proven their worth.
Objectives set by employees themselves
If current management increasingly encourages organizations to promote employee autonomy, some companies go even further by allowing them to set their own objectives. Indeed, everyone advances and produces at their own pace. This is why structures like The Morning Star Company, specializing in tomato processing, let their teams define their production objectives. Thanks to this accountability, the profitability thresholds obtained even exceed those initially set.
Derision and humor: the weapons of a good manager
You are a manager, your colleagues know it. Don’t hesitate to lighten the atmosphere by introducing humor and derision into your workplace. The founders of Faguo put this approach into practice: “Work seriously, without taking yourself seriously. This is important to maintain the dynamism of our young SME,” explains Frédéric Mugnier to Courrier Cadres. When authority is put aside to make way for a warm climate, motivation follows.
Suggest new work activities
Employees stuck in a routine can quickly lose meaning in their work. To remedy this, some leaders choose to entrust new responsibilities to their teams, such as leading a meeting. In this way, employees take on new challenges and strengthen their commitment. By feeling more empowered, they are more motivated to give their best to achieve their goals.
Shared benefits
Overtime and the risks of failure are the downside of entrepreneurial life. However, many privileges are associated with it: business meals in prestigious locations, business trips to sunny destinations, gala evenings. A set of highlights that allow you to combine pleasure and work. Why not share this with your colleagues by offering them, on certain occasions, to support you, or even represent you? These opportunities are regularly renewed for you, do not hesitate to share them.
Employees who determine their salary
A most astonishing practice. Some companies value the independent implementation of remuneration by employees themselves. For example, the Brazilian company Semco allows its teams to define, based on their missions, the salaries they believe they should receive. These are subsequently published in the company’s internal journal in order to promote transparency. “Why treat employees like children by imposing rules on them when it is possible to boost their creativity by giving them more freedom? », explains CEO Ricardo Semler, the originator of many original management methods.
Time given to personal projects
Employees tend to accumulate working hours, sometimes abandoning certain personal projects due to lack of time. Allow them to flourish by giving them dedicated time for themselves.rs passions or their personal research. This is the choice made by Google, which applies the rule of “80% of working time devoted to professional tasks and 20% reserved for personal projects”. This method promotes increased productivity among employees, who become more efficient in completing their missions more quickly and devoting themselves to their personal initiatives.
Home as a workplace
We cannot repeat it enough, teleworking has beneficial effects on teams: avoiding travel times, adapting your professional rhythm to your family requirements, or even setting your schedules with complete freedom. So many advantages that increase efficiency. If certain structures struggle to legitimize this organization, others, on the contrary, push it to its limits. Like the company Buffer, which employs eighty employees without any physical workspace, allowing everyone to work wherever and whenever they want. The cohesion of this team spread across the four corners of the world is strengthened during biannual “working holidays” organized in sunny settings.
Favor working in pairs
Working alone is the daily life of many employees. Why not allow them to work in pairs? Carrying out missions in pairs is particularly beneficial for productivity. Your employees thus benefit from mutual and constant feedback from their partner to progress more quickly. The experience proves to be enriching and allows you to escape loneliness (and the drop in morale that can take hold at work).
