How to automate repetitive tasks to boost employee productivity

How to automate repetitive tasks to boost employee productivity

Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by admin in Employee productivity tips, Software

How many times do you go through the same processes each day? How many times do you launch the same websites, copy and paste data or interrogate databases? Have you ever stopped to think how much time you would save if you automate repetitive tasks?

Maybe it’s never occurred to you. Today – have a serious think the next time you perform a task – consider if it’s something you do on a regular basis and whether it could be automated in some way.

One of the best tools on the market we’ve found (and we’ve looked at a few now) is a suite of software which caters for complete novices, right the way through to enterprise grade automation. It works on the principle of recording your keystrokes and builds macros to automate those tasks.

So, let me give you an example – say every morning you turn on your PC, open up several pages online, check your email, update your intranet with today’s customer visits and fire up your sales database… wouldn’t it be cool if that could all be going on while you fixed yourself a cup of coffee and perhaps watched a video lesson from The 8.45 Club?

Well – you can. The guys at Tethyssolutions have released an excellent software suite to help you to automate processes as I’ve just described. It all works by recording your mouse movements and key strokes and then once you have a sequence recorded, hitting one button will perform that whole series of tasks.

Maybe you need to copy and paste a large amount of data from one application to another – but it needs to be done row by row and there are 1,000 rows? It’s going to take you all day normally? Simply record one copy and paste sequence, followed by the action of clicking down a row, and then repeat multiple times. Hours saved, meaning you can be doing something useful and keeping your employee productivity at an all time high. It’s like you will have two pairs of hands…

So where can you get the software?

Option 1 is the basic package

Option 2 is for more advanced users and gives you more functionality

Option 3 is their high end solution

Their are free trial downloads for each – so you’ve got nothing to lose by seeing how much time it can save you.

Good luck!

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6 Responses to “How to automate repetitive tasks to boost employee productivity”

  1. How to automate repetitive tasks to boost employee productivity … « Productivity

    13. Feb, 2009

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  2. Therese

    13. Feb, 2009

    I am going to look more into this program, there are repetitive things that I do during the day and to have them automated would be great. I am also interested in taking a look at the ten most productive websites.

    You may be interested in taking a look at http://www.Remindo.com, they have a social productivity tool that allows you to share project spaces where you can share files, manage tasks and track milestones, there is also a twitter like functionality on there as well. I imagine something like this would also boost employee morale. The thing that I like the most, is that everything is on one platform, no switching from e-mail, to word, to twitter, etc.

    Oh, and best of all it is FREE, for now anyway. :-)

  3. admin

    16. Feb, 2009

    Hi Therese,

    Thanks for your suggestion – it looks like a good service – there’ll be a review of the service on this site in the next couple days.

    Thanks!
    Mark

  4. Therese

    16. Feb, 2009

    Mark,

    Great, I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

    Therese
    Twitter – tpompa

  5. admin

    16. Feb, 2009

    The service looked good – so no time like the present to write a story on it…
    http://www.employee-productivity.com/2009/02/remindo-review/

  6. Dan

    19. Feb, 2009

    If you’d like to keep track of your repetitive tasks you can use the Checklists feature from:

    http://www.Gtdagenda.com

    It will create a series of checkboxes for each day, and you check them off one by one.
    And it’s available on the mobile phone too, so you can access them wherever you are.

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