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Proven Ways on How to Effectively Raise Your Productivity

5/19/2018

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by Samuel Gitukui

Changing times means that business is now moving towards an any day, anytime setting. It’s not surprising to find yourself working on your business well into the weekends. This may also mean dealing with different aspects at the same time. To best manage your business, you need to get organized. Let’s take a look at a few of the main areas that you need to manage in order to raise your own productivity.

Time Waits for No Man

You would be surprised at how poor most people are at multi-tasking. Time is an important concept and learning how to effectively manage your time can significantly increase your productivity. The worst culprits to time wasting are tasks that are simply unimportant.

Think of the time where you had to leave an important task to check out that email or advertisement. There is usually a lot of time wasted on such activities and one simply needs to learn how to avoid them while giving priority to the more important tasks.

Before you start your day, have a plan on all the tasks you want to complete by day’s end. Then, compartmentalize everything including those less important tasks. In this way you will have enough time to go through everything in your plan.

Complete the Less Important Tasks During Commute

Did you know that most people have more than enough time to check out those emails as they commute to the office? This allows you to focus on the important tasks once you get to your office.

Learn to take advantage of the times when you are away from your business to go through anything that could interrupt your work schedule. Trust me, you will find that it helps.

Keep Meetings Short

You want to have as much time during the day to work on substantial business issues. As far as time wasting goes, meetings can play their part. As much as it is important to brief your employees, it is a good idea to keep things short.
One way to do this is to reduce your meeting times by 25%. This gives both you and your employees more time to work on the projects.

But let’s put things into perspective, shall we? If say, you reduced a daily meeting that took 1 hour to 45 minutes, you would get an extra 25 hours every month. That is a full day’s work. In a year that is more than 300 hours of work time from reducing meetings alone.

Take Breaks

Most people underestimate the power of taking short regular breaks. But they are very much part and parcel of increasing productivity. Such break times will help you stay organized. Otherwise, in a situation where you are running back-to-back meetings, it is very easy to lose focus.

Saving time it seems is the main objective here. Anything you can do to have more time should be welcome. Remember to stay organized, take it easy and rest every now and then.
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5/29/2018 04:42:33 pm

You will realize the importance of being productive once you're working already. When I was new at my job, I always want to do something that will make me knowledgeable about the field I entered too. There's always a desire for me to learn! Your desire to become productive will always be there, but just because you want a higher position someday, but because you want to feel your own value. It's your way of tapping your back and saying that you did a great job!

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6/12/2018 02:49:34 am

I have been wanting to increase my productivity these past few months because I like new job and it's easier to make more money if you work harder. Unlike my previous jobs where you just need to spend the same number of hours and it really doesn't matter if you like your job or if you do your job better, you get paid the same. I don't know why I can't seem to find where to get the strength and energy to do the job better. I guess it's better if I am scared of losing my job.

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6/12/2018 05:07:11 am

Hi and thank you for your comment!

It is interesting to hear that you equate having ‘strength and energy’ with doing a better job and making more money if you ‘work harder’. Are you paid by the number of units you produce? Is your boss a slave to the production function, which (if I remember Economics 101 correctly) is all about marginal products and the efficient allocation of resources (i.e. the relationship between the output of goods and services and the inputs of resources used to produce them)? A different kind of productivity, but a determining factor in the workplace nonetheless.

If your answer is yes, then welcome to the club! I can see where you are coming from because now that I am self-employed and freelancing most of the time, I also constantly find myself trying to increase my productivity. Even when I had a boss and was not doing project or piece work, I had to fear losing my job because a) the company might have had a reason to downsize, or b) someone came back from maternity leave and wanted their job back. So, for me, the issue of productivity has always been at the forefront of my mind.

But what about quality? Isn’t quality a decisive factor as well? (There you have your ‘doing the job better’, if you like.) I’d say it’s as important as working more efficiently, especially in the creative and writing businesses. I never lost a job because my work or my output was below par, in fact I never lost a job. I quit. I’m not a quitter, you must understand, but I believe in the efficient allocation of resources that leads to greater productivity. Or, to put it less cryptically, putting the best person in charge of the job. And by ‘best’ I do not mean the ‘strongest’ or most ‘energetic’ or the ‘hardest working’. Just the person best suited to the job. Because it makes for happy faces all around.

Neither do you have to love your job. You never do, believe me. There is always something more enticing that you can see yourself doing in maybe two, three…or five years’ time.

So, if you’re wondering what to do to raise your productivity, just follow the tips in the article and remember to do what you are good at. Like so much in life, it all depends on experience:

“To create theories of economic behaviour only requires imagination. But to discover whether our theories conform to the real world requires hard work. It is only when our imagination is confronted and modified by evidence that we can begin to construct theories that do provide insight into how the world works.” (Morris Perlman)

Have fun!

Yours,
Alexandra

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5/30/2018 02:17:25 am

Hi and thank you for your comment!

So…you are a fellow perfectionist, I gather!

You know the old saying that “practice makes perfect”. Given that learning is a way of practicing what we don’t yet know, as well as the fact that knowledge is power*, it seems that you have every reason to be proud of yourself. You are also quite right to heap a bit of praise on yourself. You know: “The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly in the right places.” (Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh)

I’m also sure that your boss will understand that by being so productive and investing in yourself, you bring added value to the company. And if he or she doesn’t, well, there is always the option of moving on. There is only so much work you can put in at any one time, and if like me you have a holiday coming up this Thursday (Corpus Christi, Fronleichnam), you might find yourself thinking about whether to take a holiday on Friday, a so-called ‘bridge day’. (Incidentally, do you know the German word for bridge day? It is “Brückentag” in most of Germany. In Austria, however, we call it a “Fenstertag”, which actually means ‘window day’, or a “Zwickeltag”. (Although I did not know this term until late in life. It has always been a “Fenstertag” to me. That just underlines the importance of research in my line of work, I guess. For a summary on the terms, see here: https://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Österreichisches%20Deutsch/Fenstertag%2C%20Zwickeltag%20-%20Brückentag)

However, in my opinion, the most important thing to remember is that you must never despair. Because, as George Bernard Shaw said (in Man and Superman):

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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*) as Thomas Hobbs or Francis Bacon remind us; see here for an explanation of the origins of the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientia_potentia_est, “Wissen is Macht” in German),
PS: By the way: I will not be taking a holiday on Friday. Like you, I will be probably be productive and try to make myself knowledgeable. 😉 Have a nice time!

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5/30/2018 02:38:42 am

P.S.: Sorry about the typos !!! (I'm in the middle of a translation. So busy...busy…)

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