The need to hire more people usually comes with increased output and workload. But it’s not that simple: a manager’s request for a bigger budget to bring on

A request to bring on someone new is often rejected, leaving them with no choice but to rely on Team the existing team and assign them additional tasks. So how do you do that if you’re responsible

عن فريق غارق حتى أذنيه في العمل؟!  

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Knowing exactly what they need

At this stage, the manager’s role is to understand exactly what the team needs. Does the team need additional resources or guidance to work more

أكثر فعالية؟ 

To answer these questions, the manager needs to understand how their overloaded team spends its time. The easiest way to find out is to ask team members to explain

هذه النقاط الثلاثة: 

– النشاطات الأساسية التي يقوم بها كل شخص والتي هي من أساسيات عمله. 

– معدل الوقت الذي يمضيه أسبوعياً كل شخص في هذه النشاطات. 

– النشاطات التي يقوم بها والتي لا علاقة لها بنوعية وظيفته والمهام التي من المفترض أنها مرتبطة بها. 

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استبعاد بعض المهام 

في حال كان The team has plenty to keep it busy and no time to take on new tasks. The question to ask here is whether the tasks taking up the team's time

are still very important to the company. For example, when the company first launched, internal projects were the priority. But as it grew, serving

customers became the priority, so the priorities need to be reassessed.

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Easing the workload 

Here, you should ask how فريقك بالمهام ...differently to reduce them? Departments should consider eliminating low-value tasks

—those that are routine or repetitive—and finding approaches that reduce the significant amount of time they consume.

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Improving productivity 

What can managers andTeam ...do to get tasks done faster? While improving workflows will naturally increase productivity

It improves, but real productivity gains come from automating tasks.

For example, suppose you have a team responsible for introducing customers to a new product. They spend five weeks on this because whenever a customer encounters

a problem, they call or email to request a meeting or ask someone to come and help. Most customer issues are the same, and the questions are often repeated.

Machines can therefore handle this task, or software and machines can be used to organize an important part of the process, so employees aren’t overwhelmed with work that

يستهلك وقته ويمنعه من القيام بأي عمل آخر. 

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Sometimes, the problem may lie with an individual or a department 

Within a team, there may be one or two people—or even an entire department—not carrying out their responsibilities, doing them only partially, or doing them poorly.

This can leave other teams, with no connection to that part of the work, having to fill the gaps—or finding themselves stuck because someone hasn’t done their job. As a result,

الوقت الضائع سيكون كبيراً. 

Most people believe they’re giving their best, but a manager’s role is to create more time by doing what they need to do. A manager must

be part of employees’ day-to-day work to understand what is taking up time and what isn’t.