Between minding our own work responsibilities and making sure that all of our subordinates are minding theirs, it can be difficult to think about making time for necessary things like employee drug and alcohol screening. After all, isn’t everyone busy enough doing their job and making ends meet to even strategize about implementing something as time consuming as drug testing? Not necessarily. Onsite drug testing does not take very much time, employees do not have to commute to the testing station, and steps taken to increase their privacy will only be seen in a positive light by your staff. In addition to this, there are many other ways in which you can increase time management and optimize your business better.
Timothy Ferriss of FSB Magazine discusses “The 4 Hour Work Week”, a strategy that allows individuals to concentrate on actual productivity rather than simply filling in time and taking up time slots with “being busy.” This concept of being busy rather than productive is a common one, especially in a regular 9-to-5 job, where one simply has to get something done, but the amount of their productivity is negotiable. Then, it becomes rather automatic to spend all day at work and actually accomplish only a few hours worth of work. After all, you’re being paid by the hour, not by the amount of work done. When implementing new drug and alcohol techniques and systems in your company, it may be a good idea to crunch down on productivity and simply make time.
Ferriss also discusses how he was able to simplify his workload by distinguishing between profitable and less-than-profitable accounts, and identify and replicate his most successful clients. While mass marketing, mass communication, or mass anything is a good way to bring in outsiders, it can be especially cost effective and time efficient to identify and target your highest paying clients and sink a great deal of energy and time into replicating a system which already works for you. This is a system which you have witnessed in real life to be successful.
There are many time management techniques to help you create the necessary time to implement drug testing for your employees, not the least of which is to use onsite drug testing. Onsite drug and alcohol testing simplifies, cuts time, and is more cost effective than getting everything done at a laboratory. Call Mediscreen today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/04/magazines/fsb/4_hour_week.fsb/index.htm
