4 More Reasons You Should Be Delegating Your Tasks!

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Behind the suc­cess of per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity is your abil­ity to del­e­gate tasks out.  They can be any­one, such as your col­leagues, cus­tomer or even your bosses (sur­prised?).  Del­e­ga­tion allows you to focus on your strengths.  When you are not del­e­gat­ing, you may be doing work that may be counter-productive as you step into a steep learn­ing curve or your resis­tance to start mak­ing progress in the task.  When you feel unhappy work­ing on the tasks, you become unwill­ing to pick up new things and this becomes the real show-stopper for any pro­gres­sion! Read the rest of this entry »


Achieve Personal Productivity Through Delegation!

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Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity focuses on the aware­ness of our per­sonal capa­bil­i­ties and choos­ing work that we can per­form well.  That is one part of the equa­tion.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity can also be achieved by some­one else, not just you alone. And the way to achieve pro­duc­tiv­ity through some­one else is del­e­ga­tion.   Del­e­ga­tion of tasks has a whole lot of ben­e­fits and it will be a mis­take if you are not per­form­ing any form of del­e­ga­tion.  What are the ben­e­fits of del­e­ga­tion? Read the rest of this entry »


Get People to Absorb Information the Way You Want It!

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How do you get peo­ple to absorb infor­ma­tion in a dis­cus­sion?  How do you drive your mes­sage across (that is easy) and reg­is­ter them in their heads (this is hard)?  How do you get them to do what they are sup­posed to do (as intended and planned) after the meet­ing?  The prob­lem is peo­ple have dif­fer­ent agenda, dif­fer­ent ways of think­ing and dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing.  At the end of the meet­ing, they may not digest what you had intended to deliv­ered.  They may have a mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of what you intended to say.  All these can be attrib­uted to var­i­ous rea­sons, such as poor pre­sen­ta­tion, poor deliv­ery, poor speech, etc.  One of them is preva­lent in all human pre­sen­ta­tions is not absorb­ing infor­ma­tion fully in the dis­cus­sion Read the rest of this entry »


Absorb Information Effectively – Improve Familiarity!

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Have you ever won­der after read­ing a mate­r­ial, lis­ten­ing to a pre­sen­ta­tion or attended a meet­ing and dis­cov­ered that at the end of it, you could hardly remem­ber any­thing relat­ing to what you had been doing, see­ing or hear­ing?  When you need to fur­nish a report for the mate­r­ial you had read or write the min­utes of the meet­ing you’ve attended, you were not able to bring out rel­e­vant points and get down writ­ing it.  Sounds famil­iar? Read the rest of this entry »


Be Productive — Stay Healthy (Part 2)!

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We do not want to spend our time wasted recov­er­ing from minor ill­ness.  Nor do we want to spend­ing addi­tional time strug­gling with minor cold and flu.  There­fore, it is essen­tial for us to watch out for changes to our body con­di­tions.  It is always wise to lis­ten to our body, know our lim­its and get ample amount of rest when we start to feel our body “falling apart”.  Besides tak­ing our­selves at work, we need to main­tain a healthy body out­side of work as well.  Our pro­duc­tive depends on our health!  Find out more with our addi­tional tips to keep you healthy in and out of work! Read the rest of this entry »


Be Productive — Stay Healthy!

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What you do not want to do is to be on med­ical leave for your most impor­tant meet­ing in the office for the week.  Often, we neglect the very basic need of our indi­vid­ual needs that is our per­sonal health.  A healthy body allows us to think and work prop­erly in the office.  It is required for per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.  You won’t be able to do any­thing if you fall sick eas­ily and there­fore, it is essen­tial that we take good care of our body to keep our­selves afloat of our busy lifestyle and sched­ules. Read the rest of this entry »


Things to Keep You Busy on a Business Trip

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Trav­el­ling between offices of dif­fer­ent regions have become a norm in the cur­rent busi­ness con­text.  Be it we fly to visit our sis­ter office or to meet client, we are spend­ing a fair amount of time trav­el­ling.  The prob­lem with trav­el­ling is that much of the time is wasted where you can­not really do any­thing.  That decreases our pro­duc­tiv­ity and sales!  There­fore, we need to take every oppor­tu­nity we have in the jour­ney and max­i­mize our time to get things done.  Here are a few things we find use­ful to occupy the time in dur­ing trav­el­ling. Read the rest of this entry »


7 Tips to Keep Your Desk Tidy!

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Stud­ies have shown that messy desk decreases your pro­duc­tiv­ity. (That means messy peo­ple with messy desk too)  You do not have space to work with.  You are enclosed into a small space.  Emo­tion­ally and psy­cho­log­i­cally you feel over­whelmed.  You feel dis­turbed and trou­bled if you want to spend time clear­ing up the mess in order to get things mov­ing.  Well, you should!  Fol­low our listed tips and you will improve your per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity! Read the rest of this entry »


14 Ways to Stay Focus at Work

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How do you stay focus at work?  There are so much dis­rup­tions and inter­rup­tions around you, dis­al­low­ing to stay focus with the piece of work in front of you.  Not men­tion­ing that we fall prey into pro­cras­ti­na­tion, leav­ing our impor­tant work to be done some other day.  Nowa­days, we have to rec­og­nize that we can­not decrease the amount of dis­trac­tions com­ing in every­day.  How can we stay focus, min­i­mize inter­rup­tions and dis­trac­tions and get our job done on time? Read the rest of this entry »


Getting Things Done!

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Every­day we are over­whelmed by the intense amount of work in the office.  You strug­gle inter­nally of whether you can com­plete the tasks on time.  You feel demor­al­ized hav­ing to do all these work.   Some­times, it makes you won­der the num­ber of week­ends you are burn­ing.  And if you are given more week­ends to burn on these tasks, will it ever help in get­ting them done?  Yes, you can com­plete the tasks (maybe not now) but at a later stage of time.  Your mind is cre­at­ing men­tal block in get­ting the work done.  Yes, you may not like the work, but it has to be done some­how (and by some­one), right?  So, how do you clear these men­tal blocks in you to achieve the pro­duc­tiv­ity and get things done? Read the rest of this entry »