How To Manage Your Staff Time

You know you can get more from your employees, but you also know they're not just sitting around playing Minesweeper all day. Managing an already overburdened staff is no easy feat, but it is possible to increase their productivity without enforcing an 80-hour work week or hiring more people. In this installment of Affordable IT, Ted Kemp provides some tips and tricks to coax more out of your team without resorting to operant conditioning.

We show you how to improve your staff's self-management and time-management skills. We cover training and project-management tools that help boost productivity and keep the time wasters to a minimum. And we highlight ways to get free help from unexpected places. With a few cheap tools and easy techniques, you can have a more productive staff, and maybe there'll still be a few minutes left for a round of Minesweeper.

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