Five management practices with real evidence behind them for team productivity. Boring but effective.

1. Clear written priorities, reviewed weekly. Unambiguous priorities outperform motivational effort every time.
2. Remove meetings without clear purpose. Most teams could cut 30% of meetings without productivity loss.
3. Give focus time genuinely protected. Two-hour uninterrupted blocks produce more than six hours of context-switched time.
4. Feedback close to the work, not in quarterly reviews. Daily/weekly micro-feedback is how skills actually improve.
5. Recognize publicly; criticize privately. Ancient advice; still correct.

Five tips. Each sounds basic; most teams don't do them consistently. The consistency is the actual work.