Everyday we wake up to choices,
a choice to scroll social media or a choice to read a book.
a choice to respond to emails, WhatsApp messages or a choice to write something meaningful.
a choice to get through a to do list filled with shallow work like pay bills, send message, call XYZ or a choice to create something.
All the…
We are always finding ways to increase Productivity. Many solutions to increasing productivity come in the form of tools and technology. However, in one of my previous blogs Productivity Storytelling I have suggested the importance of mental productivity and how storytelling has a role to play in it.
In this blog, I am focussing on Visual Storytelling that increases Mental Productivity.
Here …
I have been writing a blog series on productivity and one of the blog readers asked me,” So, what are you doing to be productive this year?”
Here is my response.
2016 is a lot about learning to be productive for me. Why? Simply because I struggled with it last year. A lot of how productive we are is dependant on being…
This blog focuses on the key reason why most productivity tools never make organisations as productive as they should.
I have a vivid memory of being in the middle of a busy working day and an Outlook invite landed in my inbox with a Subject line : Salesforce Training.
I opened the invite. There was long paragraph in the notes that seemed…
This is blog is about the frustration of working in large teams where we all do our own assigned task and aspire to achieve the results with efficiency. Quite often, we never achieve the efficiency we aim for even though we are very clear about who is doing what.
I have personally been in several such roles and hated them because I…
Couple of weeks ago I received an email which told a story about someone who found ways to improve productivity, lift profits, and better manage remote resources using something called 15five. The email also had a audio in which Ken Everett (N2N Hub, Australia ) is having a conversation with Iain Chalmers (Holst Group, UK) who is using 15five and being…
Could a simple story led interaction with another person dramatically increase your productivity?
Let’s answer this question
Maria and Sue work for a technology company. Maria works as a Business Development Manager and Sue is the software engineer.
Maria meets a new client finds out what they need, writes a proposal in conjunction with other team members and if the clients likes…
This is our 2nd blog of our blog series Storytelling passes the Productivity Test. In our first blog we wrote about the importance of Knowledge sharing via stories
This blog is focussed on vision statement and its relationship with productivity
What are vision statements?
A vision statement says what the organization wishes to be like in some years’ time. It’s usually…
For me this year is going to be about being Productive
So, what is Productivity?
Productivity is an average measure of the efficiency of production.
Confused ?
Lets understand it in this way: For example, Mary cleans 2 floors in 10 hrs and Joe cleans 5 floors in 10 hrs. Joe’s productivity is .5 floors per hour and Mary’s productivity is .2…