Practical strategies to help you increase your productivity - suitable for anyone in business who is focused on making things happen.

1. Productivity Tips to
Save You Time,
Energy & Money
Elliot Hayes
About Time Management Solutions
www.findtime.com.au

2. TEST
 Creating a document
 Maintaining a team remotely
 Starting the day – Outlook
 Email access
 Internet access
 Way to work
 Stretching

3. The Challenge
 Overload of information
 Multitude of distractions – technology
 Time flies!!
 The core skills to leverage your time
effectively are more critical than ever…
But they need to be updated for today’s
workplace

4. Your doctor calls you in…
 You’re working too hard!
 You can only work four hours per day
 BUT – you have to get the same output
How would you do it?

5. Working four hours per day
 What solutions did you come up with?
 Parkinsons law – ‘The job expands to fill
the time available’

6. Three Keys to Boost Productivity
 1: Focus
 2: Utilise technology
 3: Momentum

7. 1: FOCUS
 a: What you focus on
 b: How long you focus on it for
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8. Focus
 Invest in the time to ‘Think’
 Be aware of your pace
 Manage the transition into that allocated
time
 What questions would you ask of
yourself?

9. 1: FOCUS
 Use a TIMER to help you maintain 45
minutes at a time
 Use www.e.ggtimer.com

10. 2: Utilising Technology
 a: Manage your email
 What tool do you use to manage email?
 Check out
www.findtime.com.au/resources

11. 2: Utilising Technology
 c: Stay up to date
 Google Alerts

12. 3: Momentum
 Defined as:
force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a
physical object or course of events
 Well begun is…
 …half done
How do you start the day?

13. 3: Momentum
 To hit the ground running you need
ENERGY
 Serotonin
 Dopamine

14. To foster momentum…
 Choose to do THREE TASKS at the start
of your day
 That make you FEEL like you’re making
things happen

15. What NOW?
 Make a note of specific actions you will
take to increase your productivity
 Share it with your colleagues

16. TEST – TEST - TEST

17. Thank You
 You can find me at:
www.findtime.com.au
Have a great year