A robust control approach has been used to design gain-scheduled controllers, which guarantee closed-loop stability and performance. The inherent conservatism of robust control results in smaller ranges of parameters that satisfy the design criteria and consequently in degraded performance. The main focus of this paper is to reduce the conservatism to enhance the efficiency of the robust design method. Two approaches, the use of parameter-dependent Lyapunov condition and calculation of saturation factor bounds, are proposed to reduce the conservatism of the controller design.