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Efficiency tools Pt. Jawahar lal Nehru once said, “The highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.” Efficiency is a productivity metrics meaning how fast one can do something. There are simple solutions available to make your performance more productive. What are these solutions? How are they accessible? What is the cost and expertise involved in it? We are here to answer some of these questions on this platform. The catch lies in finding the best. You need to be clear about some of the concepts attached to working more efficiently and effectively. These are:
Free Lancing:
 Free lancing is the latest trend catching up with gen next, thanks to the ample number of benefits attached to it. Everyday, I wake up a happier person because I work part time which keeps me free from the guilt of shirking my duties as a wife and mother. I work from home which motivates me to outperform because I work according to my convenience, my time and my duration. This entire online thing has made the life of minipreneurs like me so much possible and easy. Gone are the days of messy bus rides and hours of slogging in the office. You can work from the confines of your home without compromising on your productivity and career aspects. Internet as a huge market place: You need to be at the right place, at the right time in order to arrive in your business. Internet is a huge market place where everything is available. You just need to search, search and search. Whatever is available, will always be findable on the internet. For Merchandise buying and selling, there is www.ebay.com, for handicrafts, its www.etsy.com. You will get all types of programming services on rentacoder.com or elance.com. Business to business transaction are done on alibaba.com while micro lending on kiva.org. You will have access to thousands of content writers across the globe on mochila.com while gramlee.com is a platform for English editors. This list is endless and effortless. All these services are available with just a click of the mouse. Isn’t it amazing? This internet business has brought us so much closer to each other, be it for business purposes or for social networking. There is a growing feeling of belongingness among the earthitians. Today the people across the globe don’t look like aliens to us. Working from Home:
 This work from home has taken the entire business by storm. It has cut down the costs involved for both the hirer and the free lancer. You can save the long hours and inconvenience of commuting while the person who hires you get his work done without investing on the basic necessities of opening an office and all the stuff that goes with it. Since you are not an employee of the company, you can keep 100% of the money you earn and are responsible for your own taxes. However, the company hiring you doesn’t have to license or insure you. Both of you fulfil your needs and agree to work on terms agreeable to both of you in future. It is as simple as this. This is what I call, self employment at its best.
Telecommuting:
 The trend of telecommuting is going upwards with the rise in the number of free lancing jobs available in the market. It is one of the most satisfying ways to perform a task. It is actually a win-win for both the employer and the employee. Telecommuting requires you to have a cordless phone with ear phones to make your communication more effective. An ear phone literally liberates both your hands for working and you can actually concentrate on the task at hand, rather than struggling with your phone. Broadband Internet connectivity: You just need to be hooked to the internet in order to work from home. And a fast internet connection can go a long way in making your working smooth and efficient. Since you are not going to the office, you need to be forever available and answerable to your boss. The trend of Foreverism of forever presence in simple terms, means getting and keeping in touch effortlessly with your clients, friends and employer. Therefore, if you can get a mobile handset with internet, nothing can be better than that. In other words, you cannot arrive in life, if you do not use the internet.
Technology:
 Technology is the hottest thing today. Blessed are we that we have taken birth in the super age of technology. It has made our life so much easy and uncomplicated. We can talk to people sitting thousands of miles across the globe without spending a fortune on it. So if have access to it, why not use it to the best of our advantage. There are simple solutions available that can go an extra mile in making you more professional and capable in your work. Using conference calls, video conferencing, voice mails, hosted software etc are effective yet simple tools to simplify our work. Good organizational tools: One needs to underline the importance of being organised before one can be called a thorough professional. These organizational tools are the benchmarks which make us lag behind from our western counterparts. Otherwise, we are miles ahead of them in terms of knowledge and education. It’s our poor organizational skills that make us a messy kind. Let’s take a simple example. Isn’t it a nightmare to exchange telephone numbers in India? Don’t you usually ask the person to sms his number instead of personally noting it down? Reason? It is that the telephone numbers are not standardised. People dictate according to their discretion. Everyone loves to take the liberty of playing with these telephone numbers and make everything so funny. Whereas, in western countries, the series is always 3, 3 and 4. Take for example the addresses. A mere two lines with a zip code define the address of a person in the west while we still need to read through a plethora of words in order to reach a particular destination here. Right from numbering the highways running from north to south with odd numbers and east to west ones with even numbers, there’s a lot to be learnt in order to be more organised in our work. The clinch does not lie in aping the west, but learning from the ones who are the best. |
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