The document discusses how organizations can maximize productivity with fewer employees during economic turmoil. It recommends that companies (1) redesign work focusing on the most productive tasks, (2) redeploy staff to match their natural teaming skills to required work, and (3) start using assessment tools to ensure the right people are in the right roles. Doing so will increase productivity, satisfaction, and reduce turnover, putting companies ahead of competitors as the economy recovers.

1. Alternate Futures Measuring TEAMING Skills to Maximize Productivity Gregory M. Sparzo June 2009

3. Situation: Economic Turmoil Getting More Done with Fewer People- Why should you care? • Holes in your organization mean - drops in productivity that offset the "savings" you envisioned when you reduced staff - lost opportunities for real cost reductions - possibly lost revenue from dropping the ball with customers - increases in errors and omissions and increases in liability

4. Situation: Economic Turmoil Getting Things Done with Fewer People: What you should do about it • Look at the current situation as an OPPORTUNITY - to redesign the work focusing on the most productive work and banishing low value work - REDELPOYING the current staff in a way that matches their natual TEAMING skills to the type of work that needs to be done - Having people doing jobs that FIT their teaming style MAXIMIZES PRODUCTIVITY, INCREASES SATISFACTION and REDUCES TURNOVER

5. “ In order to fully value human capital, we must go beyond the view of human effort as purely individual. We, humans, affect each other profoundly, and it is the way we affect each other that determines our value to our organizations.” Dr. Janice Presser Approaching a Metric Of Human Capital Synergy SHRM White Paper February 2006

6. WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT...NOW Start by deploying the RIGHT FIT TOOL KIT throughout your organization Assess who is in the right roles and who is not. Redesign the work to fit the natural inclinations of the people available

7. "Having the right people in the right jobs means you are at least one step ahead of your competiton and will stay that way as the economy recovers." Gregory M. Sparzo Alternate Futures, LLC

8. For More Information: Gregory Sparzo Alternate Futures, LLC [email_address] 203-915-5352