According to a recent study by Towers Perrin, many employees feel that the efficiency of their organization’s has plummeted in the past several months.  In an article posted on the SHrM website, Max Caldwell, a managing principal of Towers Perrin, notes, “Companies are easing up on the frequency and intensity of their messages about workplace efficiency; employees might feel underutilized as customers’ deflated purchasing power has caused demand to diminish; and costs and management layers often are cut without aligning the organizational structure or processes accordingly.”

An easy way to avoid these feelings of being underutilized is to foster a culture of corporate and personal efficiency. This process is two-fold. First, the organization must ensure that they are in fact acting in an efficient manner by aligning their business practices to the times (i.e.—if operating during an economic recession, cut costs by allowing employees to work from home or institute a four day work week). Second, consistently and directly communicate with employees about the companies progress, goals, vision, and need for efficiency. The communication aspect is key, both in the short and long term, because it will instill the need for efficiency among the troops.

Of course efficiency is not the only message employers need to deliver to their employees. Communication is king in an organization and the more resources available to a company the better. Learning @… provides such communication power as it is a web based organizational learning application, which employees may access anywhere they have internet access (that includes the web browser on a mobile phone!). An online employee learning tool such as Leaning @… allows organizations to communication their short and long term goals to their workforce and provides everyone with the opportunity to nurture the culture of efficiency.