As part of my series about the “Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective Leader During Turbulent Times”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ivy Slater.

Ivy Slater is a professionally certified business coach, speaker, author, and podcast host. She works with private clients and corporations to scale their businesses and implement sustainable growth practices. Her work focuses on strategic planning, communication, sales, leadership, and using the power of relationships. She hosts roundtables, facilitates meetings, offers training, and speaks nationwide.

Keep connecting, building, enhancing and nurturing old and new relationships. When you have those moments of needing to pull together a support team or resources, they will be at your fingertips. These relationships also give you the power to connect other people to one another and be a catalyst for introductions. That is more valuable than you’ll ever know.

Discovering ways to increase the overall efficiency of the employees and work productivity constantly remains on the brains of any employer of a Software development company. Needless downtime would hit the production and could affect seriously the company’s profit margins. Proper management is one of the most needed factors to ensure smooth operations in the firm. At some point, it is very important for employers and employees to understand the smart ways of making productivity because pressuring too much on the workers just by thinking about productivity never makes things better. It may lead to stressful situations. Proper communication between workers and employers, providing up to date equipment, etc. would make a difference in minimizing productivity loss and downtime.