In business, performance is often equated to instances of having 'performance above expected levels,' which appear at random points, for instance, at a successful launch, winning a large new client, an impressive month of sales, etc. On the other hand, real, sustainable high performance is not derived from spurts or bursts of energy. Instead, high-performance teams avoid spiking or surging; they rely on execution that is consistent, reliable, predictable, and measurable.
This is the principle that developed TrackDek. TrackDek is not only a monitoring application; it is the back end to transform a passionate group into a team that should be high-performing, a team that is aligned and cohesive and eliminates chaos and introduces certainty and process.
The Performance Detractors
The typical teams struggle with consistently performing for the same reasons trigger events:
- Unclear Expectations: Where group members do not understand how they define their time as valuable and have delinked their effort with value, expectations become unaligned and results inconsistent.
- Invisible Workflow: Without a centralized tracking system, it's tough to see where work piles up, aka bottlenecks, or where time is perhaps wasted, aka idle time.
- Uneven Color of Accountability: Typically, without any data to drive the decision, the members of the team that we see executing a task get more credit than their fair share, while the steady contributors to success get less credit, and it causes resentment and burnout in the team.
- Data Guessing Game: Too often, managers are making key decisions around resourcing based on their instincts or gut reactions. This leads to unreliable and inconsistently delivered projects.
How TrackDek Helps To Create Consistency and Drive Performance:
TrackDek helps a team or organization progress from reactive chaos to consistent and proactive excellence by giving everyone in the organization visibility and data.
1. Standardized expectations for every minute
Consistency begins with rules of the game. TrackDek allows everyone to hold each other accountable to the same transparent standard.
- Uniform Time Tracking: All employees, regardless of where they work, clock time against tasks utilizing the same system. There is one source of truth for work effort, which results in fair, clear payroll calculations.
- Clear Task Assignments: Tasks are assigned based on deadlines and priority, which are also reflected in the system. There is no confusion, and the whole team can align and apply their effort consistently on the most productive work.
- Ethical employee hours tracking: The time tracking system is completely transparent, which means that employees know exactly what is being tracked and why (i.e., time spent working on billing). Hence, they have an incentive to voluntarily refrain from committing 'time theft.'
2. Visibility for Consistent Workload Management
High-performing teams always have smooth, workable processes, and TrackDek captures the data to keep those engines running smoothly without friction.
- Real-time project progress tracking: Managers, and the whole team, can see in real time the progress (or regress) of all projects and each task at any given time. If a project has stalled out and work is not progressing forward, management is notified immediately, and proactive action happens right away rather than waiting and hoping that the project is only a little late and it all does not back up into a catastrophic failure point.
- Spotting Good Practices: Managers can glance at the time logs of top performers, recognize the time log patterns that prove to be the best workflow, and spread them across the team, raising the baseline for everyone.
- Consistent Resource Allocation: TrackDek tells precisely where team effort is being utilized. This information empowers managers to correctly apply resources consistently, protecting a “hero” from becoming the overworked team member while others sail by.
3. Coaching & Engagement That’s data-driven.
Team management tools like TrackDek allow teams to continuously improve through objective data feedback, instead of annual reviews.
- Objective Metrics around Performance: Performance reviews become a matter of objectivity; managers can point to data suggesting what the completion rates were for tasks, what period was focused work, and to what degree deadlines were hit. In these different situations, feedback is fair and consistent.
- Sustained Focus: The visibility of activity tracking promotes a high level of sustained engagement. Employees understand that their focused engagement is being accurately credited, and this supports sustained productive habits over time.
- Building Team Consistency: When team members acknowledge their success is contingent on believing they are contributing equally and watching their invisible efforts be made visible, accountability and reliance upon one another become priorities, and a dependable team cohesion emerges that is the hallmark of a high-performance team.
The TrackDek Difference: Predictable Success
For communities looking to maximize workforce efficiency, adopting TrackDek is an investment in stability. It transforms teams from the swirl of reactive crisis management to a rhythm of proactive, predictable results.
By eliminating the chaos of manual tracking in its various forms with consistent objective automated data, TrackDek supports your team to work smarter, remain accountable, and achieve sustained team consistency that makes what is possible real.
