The inconvenient truth about productivity

Every person and every team that wants to achieve more than in the past can't avoid it: they have to work on productivity.

Because if you produce the same quantity and quality of results as before, you will hardly be able to increase your success. This sounds totally obvious, but is often completely neglected. 

For some, it is also almost indecent to talk too heavily about productivity: "Aren't we already maximally productive?" is often the unspoken question. Or: "We first have to improve the process chain or this or that. Otherwise, I can't do anything about it!"

All excuses! Because productivity starts in your own mind. Always! We all have enormous productivity potential. And it's usually not so much in how we work, but rather in what we work on. At the end of the day, 90% of productivity is hidden in our focus on what's really important.

Here are three helpful questions (that hardly anyone asks) you can use to catapult yourself and your team to significantly higher productivity:

1. What is my/our top goal that we absolutely must achieve today, this week, or this month? No, there are not multiple top goals, there is only ever one! Helper question: if you were only allowed to pursue one goal this week, which one would you choose?
2. Is what we are working on right now the activity that will bring us closest to our top goal (or other important goals)? From my experience, tremendous potentials for higher productivity often already lie in the awareness of the really most important activities. Attention: a lot of times, what we enjoy the most is not the most important!
3. What can we stop without serious consequences? The longer a company exists or a team works together, the longer the list of things that reflect habit more than importance. Note: often, on this list are the activities we genuinely enjoy doing!

Massive productivity improvement is one of the many themes in my coaching programs. They also work remotely for your team ➔ More info here.