5 HABITS OF AN EFFECTIVE TEAM LEADER

Great leadership is dynamic, it melds a variety of unique skills into an integrated whole. Do you think you have what it takes to be an effective leader? Well, here are some of the many ingredients which go into an effective leadership mix:

WALK THE TALK
Transparency and authenticity and are a prerequisite of becoming a leader. Strong leaders tend to align their claims and actions. People feel more confident in their decisions because they don't have to worry about their leader having any ulterior motives.

PASSION
Exceptional leaders have an unstoppable momentum. They infuse their love for work in the people around them and motivates them to keep the passion going. A leader's passion opens doors of the new opportunities not only for themselves but for their entire team.

COMMUNICATIONS
Communication is the underlying secret of exceptional leaders. They have the ability to communicate tasks effectively to reach their goals. Beyond productivity, effective leaders communicate to motivate, inspire, reassure and direct their team members from time to time.

Vision
Leaders drive their passion towards a goal. Their vision sets a target which fuels a fire within the team members and illuminates the direction which they should follow. By creating a shared vision, leaders can motivate their team to execute task whole-heartedly.

Courage
Strong leaders act as a calm impediment to a tough course of waves. Even if the odds are against them, they take a courageous stand in adverse situations and inspire their team members to do the same.

Successfully deploying a GPS-based employee tracking app requires more than just latest cutting edge technology. As with any operational change, your employees may resist it initially. Field/Sales employees may have concerns about a GPS based app being too intrusive. They may feel that their employer doesn't trust them. They may also not understand why you introduced a GPS-based employee day tracking app? Involving your employees early in the deployment process, and clearly explaining your goals for the technology, can make the transition easy.

8 tips on getting started with a new GPS based employee tracking app

Focus on the benefits for staff

No more manual daily sales report, distance traveled calculations, less paperwork, no more order details to be given to office once order is booked it is recorded in the office and sales employee task is done. Daily expenses can be directly added in real-time for faster reimbursement, bills of the food, hotel or travel can be uploaded by just clicking the picture of it, the accounts department will get all the details, as simple as that.   There are actually many ways dayTrack can make life easier for your employees.

All the details of the clients are available at their finger tips like

• address of the client
• Google maps link to reach the client's location
• contact details of all concerns at client's office
• when was the last visit done and who visited
• what order the client has placed in past
• what is the payment history
• is there payment due on the client and much more

Be open

Don’t hesitate to tell your employees that during official working hours their GPS location will be picked at a regular interval and when they will check-in at client's place and while leaving. Communicate with staff with open heart and mind, that will give them an opportunity to ask the questions and share what concerns they have about the employee tracking app.

Explain how it works

Some employees may just see it as a ‘boss in the mobile phone’ and may have doubts about what all it does and how it is going to work. Remove the mystery of what dayTrack is, what information is collected and how it will be used for their benefit only, after all your main objective is improving the efficiency of the employees not to keep a eye on them.

Make sure they know it’s not personal

Your employees may think that the company will monitor their movement round the clock on all days. Do tell them clearly that the GPS location will be picked only on working day and during their working hours, if the employee is on leave or its holiday then GPS tracking will not work. After working hours the GPS tracking will not work but in case they login into the app then their location when they login will be picked.

Be open to employee ideas

When you are implementing the employee tracking app, always be open to the ideas or inputs given by the staff as dayTrack offer customization as well and feedback of the actual users will go a long way toward the acceptance of app.

Don’t hide the benefits to the company

If you don’t discuss with your employees what are the benefit for the company with employee tracking app - dayTrack, employees may become suspicious. Tell clearly about benefits company will have by implementing the app. Of course, you can mention how a more profitable business is better for your employees as well, providing them growth opportunities and better working environment.

Keep the environment positive

While you may get various reason by the staff to avoid the change but be calm and focus on positive aspects of app. Employees may say they don't have big screen phones or may be not have android phones, you may take a call and offer them phones or reimburse their purchase of new mobile handset. Offer them power bank as many will say regular internet usage may cause battery discharge. You may also need to get them internet packs on their mobile plans as many might not have it. Solve their issues that will build their confidence and will give an impression that company is any way going to implement the field force tracking app taking all staff members in confidence.

Don’t expect all employees to be happy about the app

While good employees will welcome the app which will help them to improve their performance, help them go paper less and no separate reporting to be done for the day despite of the fact that their location will also be recorded on the server, staff with performance issues will for sure will not like it. Plan this before you roll out the app for implementation, give them time to get comfortable with the change but be specific about the time frame.

We hope all this will help you in implementing the employee tracking app successfully. You can always talk to your account manager at dayTrack and the take their expert advice before rolling out the app in your organisation. Good Luck!

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Managing employees in the field has always been a biggest challenge, especially for businesses where marketing and sales team is always on the move. For years, mobile phone was a good options for the employers to call their field force employees to know what they did and where they were during the day. This was a good working model but had its own limitations like someone has to call the sales employees to take the information or employee needs to call-back to concerned manager in the office to give his/her day report, it is a time-consuming process and has the possibilities of errors as well. Also there was no system to track the exact movement of the employees during working hours. Thankfully now, the employee tracking apps are available which helps to track and log the day activities of field employees on the go and all in real-time.

Employee Tracking App - dayTrack is a GPS(Global Positioning System) location-based android app that runs on employee's android phone or android tab and is monitored by a manager from a browser-based web application. This web application can be accessed from any where. App has features like location tracking and activity data logging, the web-based panel for admin will show you where your employees are, where they've been (with GPS location) and what all they have done like, which client they visited, whom they met at client's office, any sample product given, orders booked, feedback taken, payment collected and much more... The aim is to make businesses more efficient through smarter technology, which ensures authentic data collection and better customer service. And of-courses, it helps businesses keep tabs on employee productivity using employee tracking app.

dayTrack brings employee data to the desk of the manager all in real-time. The app also offers the ability to push messages to the employee for any update that employer wish to send. The reporting system of employee tracking app helps employer to get micro-level information of the day movement and activities done by employee. The option to add daily expenses done by employee is another good feature which keeps a track on the expenses done by the employee, app also allows employee to attach any bill of the expenses done by taking picture using the camera, your company accounts department will love it, we are sure. dayTrack also captures the total distance traveled by the employee, so you can easily pay their travel cost with one simple click.

The employee tracking app can also function as a basic address book for the sales or field-force employee, so no need to give clients list to new joined staff, install the app, create their account using web-based application and they are ready to go. dayTrack also gives an option for the connectivity with other web-applications to post data of employees day activities using HTTP post.

Deploying a location-based employee tracking app with so many features is simple too, it requires an android powered mobile phone or tab with internet connection and basic features like GPS and camera. The easy to use interface ensures easy learning for the employees too. dayTrack can provide a profitable solution to different business problems, all in one employee tracking app.

To learn more about Employee Tracking App, you can visit www.daytrack.in