9 Simple Tips to Super-Productivity

We’ve agreed that a day we are given a 24 hour pay-check.  We are not able to deposit this for another day to use nor can we add an addi­tional 1 hour to the pay-check.  With only 8 ½ hours in the work­place, that’s all we’ve got to play with in the day at work.  We want to be super-productive, deliver work on time and avoid over­time.  We can be super-productive by min­i­miz­ing the unnec­es­sary.   How do we become super-productivity in the workplace?

1. Plan a list of tasks to be com­pleted in the day.  Plan­ning is straight for­ward.  The dif­fi­cult part is to stick to it!  Do not be influ­ence by exter­nal forces.  Focus on what you had planned out
2. Focus one task at a time. Do not tog­gle between tasks.  It’s counter pro­duc­tive as you need to reset your con­text every time.
3. Put injects aside unless it is of utmost urgency or it is of sub­stan­tial strate­gic value.  Focus on the task or else, you won’t be able to com­plete it.
4. Stick with the nor­mal lunch break hours.  Some­times it is great to reward your­self a longer lunch break but avoid the temp­ta­tion to habit­u­ate it.  That is 1 hour.  No longer than that.
5. Stop chat­ting on the instant mes­sen­gers (e.g. MSN, ICQ, eBuddy and Google Talk).  You won’t be able to con­cen­trate on your task as you need to switch back and forth between the mes­sen­ger and your task.
6. Avoid surf­ing Face­book and Friend­ster.  What is pro­duc­tive with play­ing Restau­rant City, fol­low­ing what oth­ers are doing or check­ing out friend’s profile?
7. Avoid surf­ing aim­lessly on the inter­net for jokes and games.  Come on.  There’s noth­ing pro­duc­tive about it.  Do some­thing mean­ing­ful.  Do it when you have the free time or needed some­thing light at work.  If you spend more than an hour a day doing this, some­thing is quite wrong with you at work…
8. Avoid mean­ing­less con­ver­sa­tion with co-workers such as gos­sips and rumours.  Learn to say “no”.  You got some­thing impor­tant to do now.  Strik­ing a con­ver­sa­tion on your co-worker’s lat­est Coach Bag maybe impor­tant to your co-worker but it may not be yours.  What’s impor­tant to you?  Get­ting the cur­rent task done, right?  Weigh out what’s impor­tant to you.  And do not worry of hurt­ing her feel­ings.  Your co-worker would def­i­nitely be able to look for some­one else to strike a con­ver­sa­tion with.
9. Avoid tak­ing tea breaks that is longer than usual.  It’s some­times good to reward your­self but as the same goes with lunch breaks, avoid the temp­ta­tion to habit­u­ate it.  You can achieve more things than tak­ing tea breaks.

The list may sug­gest that we do not allow “leisure time” to exist in the work­place.  It can exist but not too much and not at the expense of the needed for impor­tant tasks.  Also, the list may sug­gest that we work like machines and close all doors of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with your co-workers.  Not at all.  Do it at the appro­pri­ate sit­u­a­tions.  You still need to social­ize with your co-workers to build rap­port.  Some­times it’s unnec­es­sary to talk about your co-worker’s cat but some­times it can be a light­en­ing topic.  Our advice, is keep it min­i­mal and always think back what is the most impor­tant thing for you to do (con­tinue the con­ver­sa­tion with your co-worker or con­tinue with the task that is sup­posed to be deliv­ered the com­ing Friday)

What are your super-productive tips?

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