5 Workplace Productivity Tips

How can we achieve more pro­duc­tiv­ity in a sin­gle day?  If you are con­fused with the many tips avail­able out there, take a look at our 5workplace pro­duc­tiv­ity tips that will get you jump-started.  Before we can really dwell to these sim­ple straight for­ward tips, you need to be very aware of your per­sonal char­ac­ter­is­tics and behav­iour.  That will serve as a pre­req­ui­site for under­stand­ing how to effec­tively use these pro­duc­tiv­ity tips.  If you are already ready, read on!

1. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion

One of the most impor­tant skills in any busi­ness (where every­one is talk­ing about) is effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  It’s not just sales talk or nego­ti­a­tion.  It’s about com­mu­ni­cat­ing and under­stood by the other party.  Com­mu­ni­cate clearly with your co-workers and clients, make sure all instruc­tions and infor­ma­tion are under­stood the way you want it to be.  Repeat and re-emphasize when you need to.  It doesn’t mean that you talk well is equiv­a­lent to being a good communicator.

By speak­ing clearly, con­cisely and check­ing back with that other party has under­stood what you have said, you can save a great deal of pre­cious time

2. Plan­ning

You can’t start with­out proper plan­ning.  Be it a long term project or a short term ones, or a recur­ring one.  You need to plan.  You have to plan for the day, the week and the month.  Plan­ning is essen­tial to max­i­mize your avail­able time for the tasks you put forth and also for achiev­ing your goals.

3. Pri­or­i­tiz­ing

Plan­ning allows to list out all the things that needs to be done.  But we only got a cer­tain amount of time that we have in our life.  We need to pri­or­i­tize what is impor­tant to us.  Look at your To-do lists every­day.  Which one is more impor­tant and needs your atten­tion first?

4. Pro­cras­ti­na­tion

One of the biggest prob­lems we humans encoun­tered is pro­cras­ti­na­tion.  The key thing is to admit that you are pro­cras­ti­na­tion then iden­tify the tasks that you put off the longest. Once you know which things you are likely to pro­cras­ti­nate about, find out the rea­son why you are not doing it.  By iden­ti­fy­ing the rea­son­ing behind your pro­cras­ti­na­tion issues, you can find solu­tions.  They can be break­ing into smaller pieces, or plan the task as pri­or­ity or find the best work­ing time that you find most effi­cient at. Elim­i­nate pro­cras­ti­na­tion from your life and you see how much you can achieve everyday.

5. Del­e­ga­tion

Remem­ber again, we have lim­ited amount of time in a day.  You need lever­age to do more tasks than what you can do alone.  Del­e­ga­tion comes in.  Del­e­gate some of your rou­tine tasks which you can quickly instruct some­one else to take respon­si­bil­ity of.   Some of us may not like del­e­ga­tion as they find it a has­sle to “pre­pare” the per­son for the task.  But before you think of that, give your­self the doubt that through proper com­mu­ni­ca­tion, you will be able to auto­mate some of the rou­tine tasks, thus allow­ing you to work on the more impor­tant ones to you.

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