Have all the key Tips for success in your career. Something that i have been practicing for years and these presentations are used for orienting my teams towards larger goals and vision.
Productivity Improvement Tips for New age Professionals
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2. Inward desire to beat your previous best
Achieve personal and professional
Success
Become a brand
World demands competency
3.
Happiness with current level of productivity
and success
How do you prioritize your tasks of the day
› How you use your time to achieve tasks
› How you group related tasks
How do you handle interruptions
How effectively you communicate &
collaborate
Knowing what is expected to be delivered
› When done means “done”
How healthy you are, both mental and
physical
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5.
Set 7 day SMART Goals
› Write down goals in goal planning sheet
List action steps and benefits
List obstacles and solutions
› Look back and measure the success every week, and then
prepare the next 7 day goal
› Include one personal and career goal
› Start the day with task planning, check if action items
connected your 7 day goal are part of your daily activity
Remember to make this a practice every day
Always have access to goal planning sheet and diary with
daily task list – please keep it on your desk or where you won‟t
miss it on any day.
Success depends on following a life-long practice of goal
setting – a progressive realization of pre-determined goals
6. Reduce calls, use it only in emergency or
unavoidable circumstances
Interrupt others in your team lesser
Measure how you are spending time
› Note down all types of tasks happened
during the day, including task interruptions
and meetings
› Learn from it, and tune your work habits
7.
Remind yourself periodically on the need to
focus on the goal; Use a tool like Mobile
Calendar to alert you on this
Create slots for checking email/chat/calls, say
every 2hrs
Remove reminders of unfinished tasks away
from your sight. Keep an email/SMS reminder,
so Tool will remember to remind you, freeing
your memory!
Organize your Inbox, take action on emails
when you see it and move it from Inbox
Avoid reading same email again and again,
through the day
8.
Efficiency and Effectiveness
Stop doing parallel work, start doing it
sequentially
› Group related tasks
› Ensure logical completion of a unit of task, and
then switch to next task when possible.
Collaborate, Listen, Communicate
Higher standards
› Expect higher standards of work from others in
team
› Take pride and give higher quality to the team
› Understand when done means done
9.
Learning Environment
› Development Plan
› Designated learning slots
› Platform to learn from other‟s experience
Solution oriented discussions
Engage Socially, give and take solutions
Subscribe to keywords e.g. via Google Alerts – be aware
Follow industry leaders and leading tech groups on
twitter/linkedin etc…
Develop a passion for your field
Strive for Self-directed work groups
› Tolerance to smaller „learning mistakes‟
› Freedom to express dissent
Happy Team
10.
Build Trust - What can you do today to
enhance trust in your department?
Build healthy co-worker relationships
Work with your mentor to stay focused and Get
ready for short term, and long term SMART goal
setting (Both professional and Personal)
Work to make changes to the work-life habits a
permanent one through ongoing effort,
affirmations and self-motivation