In today’s economic crisis, with the looming shadows of the credit crunch, organisations are being stretched more than ever. There is constant pressure on the manager to ‘do more, with less’, without of course, compromising on quality. Only the strongest organisations who are able to adapt to the changing demands, and tough financial constraints, will survive.

It’s time for the manager to have a look at their resources, and give consideration to what can be done to ‘do more, with less’. The greatest asset and resource that the modern manager has, is his or her staff. It would be wrong to think that you can just apply more pressure and expect them just to work harder for longer. That approach would be short term at best, and will come back to bite you.

The best approach is to try and help your staff to work smarter and more efficiently. Managers themselves frequently undertake management training courses to expand their knowledge, what they sometimes forget is that these new skills can be transferrable. Your staff can greatly benefit from new ideas and techniques on how to work better.

Cross training, sales training, time management training, assertiveness training and body language training are just a handful of examples with which you can give your staff a boost. If you invest time in their personal development, it will help you ‘do more, with less’.