Marciano Verdi, CEO de Befective, sonriendo en un retrato profesional
Marciano Verdi
18 dez, 2025

Smart Productivity – From doing more to doing what matters

Why Your Team Works More Hours But Produces Fewer Results

The problem every leader faces but few admit

Team productivity is the most critical challenge businesses face today. If you’re a leader, manager, or business owner, let me ask you something: Do you really know what your team is doing right now?

I don’t mean if they’re “busy” or if they attended their meetings. The uncomfortable truth is that most leaders don’t know. Moreover, that blind spot is costing them millions.

🇲🇽 Mexico
48h
46% efficiency
🇨🇭 Switzerland
32h
3.5x more value/hour

Your employees work 48 hours a week but produce only 46% efficiency. Meanwhile, teams in Switzerland work 32 hours and produce 3.5 times more value. The difference isn’t talent. On the contrary, it’s visibility.

The mistake 67% of SMBs are making

Two-thirds of companies recognize low productivity, but they’re trying to solve it with more control, more meetings, and more manual reports. However, this only makes the problem worse.

88%
Leaders spend time in meetings just to “verify”
56%
Layoffs due to poor performance
40%
Employees looking to change jobs

As a result, you’re spending your time checking instead of strategizing. But ask yourself: how can you evaluate performance without real visibility?

“If you doubled your team tomorrow, would your results double?”

How to improve team productivity

If your answer is “I’m not sure,” then you don’t have a personnel problem. Actually, you have a system problem.

You can’t scale what you can’t see. You also can’t improve what you can’t measure.

  • Real-time clarity on who does what
  • Real workload data (not perceived)
  • Performance visibility without micromanaging

From blind control to smart team productivity

Team productivity doesn’t improve with more control. On the contrary, it improves with strategic visibility and guided autonomy.

Your best employees don’t want to be monitored. Instead, they want clarity about what’s expected of them and the tools to do it well. Additionally, you need the peace of mind that important work is getting done without becoming a bottleneck.

That’s smart visibility.

The solution: Befective

That’s why I developed Befective. A third option between micromanaging and crossing your fingers.

Befective gives you real-time visibility of your operation, automatic objective tracking, and smart alerts only when you need them. Plus, it works in on-site, remote, or hybrid models.

21%
Average efficiency increase reported by leaders using Befective

But more importantly: they recover time for strategy, talent development, and business growth. Therefore, no more endless meetings or surprises at the end of the quarter.

Take the first step

In summary, smart productivity isn’t about working harder. On the contrary, it’s about having the systems that allow you to see clearly, decide quickly, and act with confidence.

Are you ready to stop guessing and start knowing?

In conclusion, the question isn’t whether you need visibility. The question is how much longer will you keep losing before getting it.

‘ll show you exactly what your operation would look like with complete visibility.

MV

Marciano Verdi

Smart Productivity Specialist
Founder of Befective | Helping leaders manage high-performance teams