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Improving your productivity and work ethic

teacher avatar Tinashe Chitiyo

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction to Productivity

      1:25

    • 2.

      Productivity improve value of your work

      2:19

    • 3.

      Dealing with outside distractions

      5:03

    • 4.

      Assinging monetary value to your time

      2:24

    • 5.

      3 steps to getting things done

      3:57

    • 6.

      Develop and Create a dream

      2:08

    • 7.

      Adapting to pressure

      3:37

    • 8.

      Good bye and learn more

      0:28

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Hey there, It's Tinashe Chitiyo. Let's talk productivity!

I am sure you’re here cause you want to improve your productivity. Guess what that's what we are going to learn. Productivity is undoubtedly one of the major determinants of success in our business or work life.

  • How to be indispensable
  • How to assign value to work
  • Focus on work that has the maximum return
  • Stress management

Much of what we will focus on is managing time. We will look into activities that produce the most value in your work and how to focus on those. In addition, l will take you through how to assign a monetary value to your time. This will help you understand how much you sacrifice dollar-wise for a very minute. Later on, it will help you plan for the future.

By the way, we can’t talk of productivity without understanding dealing with stress. More often than not what pushes us back is stress and burnout. In the class, we will see how we can control the flow of positive and negative energy to regulate stress. Moreover, l will share some simple exercises with you that will cut immensely reduce your anxiety and pressure at work.

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1. Introduction to Productivity: Hey, there, it's too. Now shake GTO. I'm an entrepreneur based in South Africa, have worked with various entrepreneurs and employees on business projects and we all seem to be concerned with our productivity. So l thought I'd create an animation compiling my most valuable snippets on the topic. I'm sure you're here cause you want to improve your productivity. Guess what? That's swapped. We're going to learn. Productivity is undoubtedly one of the major determinants of success in our business or work-life. Much of what we will focus on is managing time. We will look into activities that produce the most value in your work and how to focus on verbs. In addition, we'll take you through how to assign a monetary value t or time. This will help you understand how much you sacrifice stole a wise for a very minute. Later on, it will help you plan for the future. By the way, we can talk if productivity without understanding dealing with stress, more often than not, what pushes us back is stress and burnout. In the class, we will see how we can control the flow of positive and negative energy to regulate stress. Moreover, Albert, share some simple exercises with you that will cut immensely reduce your anxiety and pressure at work. Hey, if you think any of this is interesting, how about you join me in the first-class today, right now. Great time. 2. Productivity improve value of your work: Important to your business day. Sporadically amidst this load of finishing stuff, you could begin to feel like a hamster on a turning wheel. You're really buckling down, however, not truly going any place. Far more terrible. Imagine a scenario in which you're accomplishing this work. However, feel like it's pushing you the other way from where you maintain that your life should be. Presently. Obviously, this is a diverse issue that we could investigate for a really long time. Eventually, however, it boils down to a single word. Why? In my time usage courses, I trained individuals to process, which is choosing how to manage undertakings by addressing three inquiries. What is the following stage? When will it be finished and where could It's, how speed it's spaced sick and successful by enlarge. Yet, there's a fourth inquiry you can pose every once in awhile. For what reason am I doing this? Presently? I don't suggest doing this with each undertaking and each email in your inbox, however, may be one time a day with one errand. You ask, what difference does this make? How would you track down a solution to this inquiry? It for the most part boils down to one of three things. To start with. It can uphold your own qualities or vision for your life. Second, it can uphold the qualities or vision of your association. What small? Third, it very well may be a vital undertaking to furnish you or those you love with the necessities of life. I've had clients who, while planning something and they shed you have found this team in responding to this why question in the title. It doesn't need to be mind-boggling. For instance, the arrangement could seem to be meeting with colleagues to talk about the project. Why? Since it assists our organization with gaining ground toward our Q2 Objectives, assuming you find you're consistently doing things that have no strong response to the why question, but there's a decent chance to reconsider the work you're doing or the way in which you approach, making it happen. Maybe a couple of little changes can re-establish the worth of your work. We aren't rodents running the race. We are individuals with reason. By periodically thinking about the motivations behind why we get things done, we make work more useful, insignificant. 3. Dealing with outside distractions: Disposing of outside interruptions, I referenced that switches of the greatest adversary of concentration. These are the things that poorly or consideration away from your most important exercises into the most insignificant exercises, we should check out at the outside switches or interruptions. These are the things from beyond you that catch your eye and hand to you during your day. I will talk about five of the most well-known switches in the present working environment. And I'll give you five change removers to battle them. A switch remover is something that assists with decreasing or even wiping out the switch. We should discuss the main switch players, homes and glimmers. These or anything advanced towards electronic that is clamoring for your consideration. It tends to be a voice message notification and instant message, or ringing telephone, or a glimmering screen telling you that an email message came in. These advanced interruptions can deny you have your concentration, pull you away from your most significant exercises and prompt you to lose a lot of time. The principal switch removal is to switch off these notices. As opposed to allowing innovation to let you know what you ought to do, make a timetable wildly will answer voice messages and email. When you have this timetable setup, it's smart to tell others. For example, on your phone message welcoming, let individuals in on the hour of the day when they can anticipate and answer the following most normal switches, what I call a feared twofold. Q. It's the speed inquiry. For example, somebody coming around dollar referring to you on the telephone and saying as I have quite recently, a fast inquiry, while you really want to answer these inquiries, there's a more useful method for managing them than intruding on one another over the course of the day. Utilize a balanced gathering, a consistently book time where you each go through your rundown of inquiries for one another, for a more definite clarification of the plan of the coordinated gathering and how to direct one, see the effective meetings course here on Linda, come. The following most normal switches, commotion, which incorporates any sort of diverting climber in your workplace. For example, individuals talking, music, modern cameras, and so on. This irregular right side, commotion can bigger effect your efficiency more than you might understand? There is two basic change remover to manage this. And you can pick which one to utilize contingent upon your character and inclinations. The switch remover as either quietness or music, you can make quiet by moving to an area that is calmer, putting on their phones, or in any event, making the repetitive sounds. You, for example, a work carrier fan. Nonetheless, for certain individuals, music can be pretty much as powerful as quietness and set closes after the other commotion around them. Obviously, you will need to be certain that your music isn't making a conviction for the others around you. The following switch managers, moment and text in forming these specialized strategies merit their own conversation in light of the fact that in addition to the fact that they are turning out to be more normal, they are likewise habitually utilized inappropriately. Message and texting can be important while you're passing one snippet of data to someone else and the discussion won't go past one message. For example, I could message somebody who am I meeting for lunch, the time running five minutes late. Anyway, in the event that I really want to have a discussion to and fro with somebody. That is the point at which a child to utilize the straightforward switch removal of getting the telephone and call. It's a lot quicker to have a fast discussion via telephone for an ever-changing trade of data than it is to have an extended discussion with many discrete little interferences. The last switches exceptional as it manages the important switches in your day. Imagine a scenario where you work in an interference driven business like specialised have poor medical services. In these circumstances, the best switch Buster might astonish you. It is to plan less than your day. I'll make sense of it. Assuming my day is stuff falling, there's no space to breathe between arrangements. At the point when superfluous interference comes in, I will be enticed to perform various tasks. Recollect, performing multiple tasks influences me to really finish less, commit more errors and increments. My feelings of anxiety, leaving bunches of room between my planned exercises in the day is better. Then at that point, when interferences come, I can briefly differ the exercises I've booked for me undo them after the fundamental interference is taken care of. Utilize these five switch remover and Danny of, as you can imagine, to build your concentration. Recall it's difficult to wipe out the outside switches totally. Be that as it may, the more you can lessen these switches, the more centered you can be around your most important exercises. 4. Assinging monetary value to your time: Exercises that marathon most teach our, in any case, consider the possibility that you've participated in an activity where you have no genuine thoughts about what the worth of each hour is. Perhaps you're dealing with some new development for your organisation that has never been attempted. Or on the other hand, maybe you're attempting to begin aside and trust business that could turn into it's own vocation. How long would it be a good idea for you to spend on things like that? I say the time isn't really cash, however, it acts like cash. A significant number of the illustrations that we can gain from cache likewise apply to time. In the model that I'm utilizing were basically betting with time. We're effective money management is specific measure of time and we are unsure of what the profit from this speculation will be. Presently, I seriously Hate batting, nor do I partake in it yet. If I somehow will happen to bet, I wouldn't take each and every dollar from all of my financial balances and ventures and bet everything on one shot in the dark. That sounds silly and unreliable. Surely. Be that as it may, I could say, Guess what? I'm alright to have losing $50 and better with a $50 y. I am ready to lose that some essentially, with regards to your time, you need to pose yourself the enquiry, what measure of time am I able to lose? Call this the Las Vegas guideline of using time productively. Take a gander at the Accessible time that you have in the week. Then at that point, inquire, assuming I contributed five hours every week for the following year and didn't get anything back for this measure of time, might I want to lose that measure of time? Find a number that is agreeable and liable for u corresponding to all your different obligations, then make a cognizant interest in that open door. Along these lines, you can seek after something energizing to you and just some gamble related to it. However, you can do as such without setting yourself in a risky position. For this situation, use time productively. Thus, ask yourself, is there something that I'm chasing after that may not take care of regarding passion to time. Then ask yourself how long you can mindfully better lose to put resources into the thing. Then utilize the Las Vegas rule to focus profoundly on the open door and may the chances we ever in support of yourself give input. 5. 3 steps to getting things done: You referenced there are three stages for putting together anything, the investigation, the plan, and the assault. All in all, my two at some point sort of walking us through how we could move toward that in arranging time or railroad things for experts. In this way. I recently was training someone yesterday who has an exceptionally rack leader, extraordinarily cultivated man in an extremely senior situation in a major, moderate sized organization, fairly deeply grounded and he's functioning like 15 hours per day, seven days per week. He's finishing everything except the expense is so high, he's depleted, he can't get to the proactive stuff, is simply doing the receptive stuff and he's not exactly present for his family all himself and his extended far to the point that it's finding him as he's like, how would I fix this? In this way, I can't simply come in and say, hello, we should get you a plan for the day as a starter. That'd be an external and approach, correct? That is somewhat of an assault that initially poses inquiries later methodology. In this way, examining a plan of assault is it's a three-step cycle to finding the framework that will work for that individual breakdown is you initially need to pose a progression of inquiries to truly focus in on what should be fixed and what doesn't. Anyway, I generally posing query is like, let me not working correct. What's functioning about your situation at the present time? What other things that generally finish any situation? Everything was finished that was working. What wasn't working as the number of hours that it was taking. So begins to prompt restricting and on the issue to be tackled. And what are you attempting to shuffle your time between? That is essential for the dissect, which is what is it that you want to fit in time for to be genuinely adjusted? And we all need to conclude that with regards to our time, what am I sincerely attempting to adjust my time between what is the center similar to the huge containers. It very well may be like in your field, you do a digital recording. It's exploring visitors. There's an examination, there's composition, there's the creation, and afterwards There's like authoritative developments that would resemble the four cans perhaps. Anyway, we as a whole have that in breaking down is to truly comprehend what do I have to adjust my time between and afterwards, whereas my time as of now going What's more, I generally do that and energized individuals like you need to consider your time a, it resembles a store them a restricted measure of times simply going to fit so a lot. So how long do we need to function with is it true that you are working ten hours every day, eight hours every day, 12 hours every day. What's the size of the holder for your work? And afterwards is what needs to fit inside and how can you sort out it at this moment? What requests do you handle things in? How would you deal with your mornings? When do you do your regulatory stuff? Is there any request whatsoever? I'm always consistently unique. All in all. That is the breakdown. Where are we at this moment? Then at that point, the plan is, where are we attempting? Anyway, what might your timetable resemble, assuming it was their size, holder and fit all that you truly expect it to do. We truly do a diagram. We sorted out. Here is your ideal timetable. And afterwards the soldiers, how would we get you from where you are to that optimal timetable? Also, that is constantly the board's ability. What do you add to your timetable? What do you remove from your timetable? What is your timetable should be done all the more proficiently. And afterwards, you simply apparatus sit until you get the individual way into the top terminal state. Its actual cemented, very useful and possible. 6. Develop and Create a dream: Develop creative dream. Having a dream is an incredible asset with regard to developing your concentration. A dream can set the heading for your life and give you what course to follow to arrive at a strong spot. It can likewise movie when rouse you to accomplish more. So where might we at any point start to make a dream? There are numerous ways of doing this. In this brief video, I simply need to give you a straight-forward beginning of making a dream. This is the kind of thing you will believe should do toward the finish of this video. In the first place, find a calm spot, a computerized safe haven where you will not be interfered with by anybody, where you can sit for five minutes continuously. During this time, you will do nothing. You're not in any event, going to record your considerations. You simply need to contemplate three inquiries. What would I like to become a long time from now? What is it that I believe should do a long time from now? Also, what is it that I need to have a long time from now set for five-minutes and picture this tier. Then after the five minutes are up, you'll need to take some time and record the considerations that you had while you were contemplating. We've given an activity document to assist with making that somewhat more straightforward. Since then I'm posing will require some investment. You should save 30 minutes or something else for the entire cycle. After it's finished. Then at that point, you could take your considerations and change them into a full vision explanation. I in all actuality do prescribe the fit it to one page or less. Like that. You can post these contemplations up in a conspicuous spot where you can check out them consistently. Seeing this vision everyday and week-by-week will assist with zeroing in on your viewpoints on thoughts that will assist you with reaching that point that you've envisioned for yourself for a long time from now. You could likewise needs to plan a short meeting with your self-consistently to survey this vision. Making a positive vision representing things to come will assist you with zeroing in on what means a lot to you. 7. Adapting to pressure : Adapting to pressure, we should attempt to try and I will blow up this inflatable air rushing. Okay. We should attempt to pop it with a finger, with a pen, with a nail. Blast. Very much like with this inflatable, you have a bunch of insight assets, your air, which keeps you above water. Yet when difficulties come on the off chance that you haven't developed legitimate safeguards, you are powerless against the blast. You probably won't cross paths with a little difficulties yet in the event that a genuine test shows up, you will not have the option to deal with the tension. In this example, I'll walk you through how to fabricate propensities for stress-free executives, you can carry on with a more joyful, more useful life. We should contemplate a model. You got up, have your morning schedule. A eggs were pungent, Espresso was powerless. It is stormy and cold. Traffic appears to increment. You go to work, stopping is full. You made it into the structure. Hello, Mr. X. Did you have a good day end of the week? A. It's Monday. A negative report is brought to you by a colleague. What is your response? We should ponder the other model. You awakened, had your morning schedule, eggs were flavorful and Espresso was perfect. It is bright, traffic is fine. You go to work near the workplace and came to the structure. Great morning, mister acts. How goes it with you? Fantastic. The end of the week was great. What's more than negative report is brought to you by a partner. What is your response? So stress is certainly not a solitary reality. It's a continuum. Advantage is streaming into your body to manage life's customary difficulties, stresses, whatever requires a versatile reaction on your part, thusly as an ordinary piece of your life. So what is the issue with the pressure then at that point? That a ton of the time, our pressure reaction isn't the one expected by the climate. There is torments beyond the inflatable and we designate assets to adapt to a name. We finished exhaust. However, perhaps there is a nail and we just distribute assets to adapt to a pen. Last let me ask you something. Since you become a grownup, when was the last time you experience full unwinding? Odds? Are you are depleted, might do escape what is happening. And activity to interface with your body will permit you to make this space to begin picking your reactions to day-to-day challenges. To be more responsive, not receptive to your actual sensations when you are under pressure. Pulse goes up, circulatory strain increments and breath increments. So we should synchronize the mind and body to breathe. By dealing with your breathing, you will actually want to deal with the old pressure reactions since it will dial back your class, declining or circulatory strain and upgrade your in susceptible framework. This week, allow yourself 15 minutes of breathing space. Use time and space to interface the body and psyche. Agreeable position alone, set of brief clock and simply centered around the experience of taking in and breathing out. When your brain has meandered around, simply compassionately get once again to the experience of the present time and place, to the experience of taking in, breathing out. Everything begins with there and the activity toward the start. For the inflatable not to pop. It needs the perfect proportion of variance, that perfect proportion of the time deal with your inflatable. 8. Good bye and learn more: Congrats on getting done with these tasks, on fostering and more useful mentality. My expectation is that your viewpoints on efficiency and using time productively has expanded and do presently CF, few chances to be more useful. This course is justice starting a during the time spent in self investigation. Since the work you do and the obligations you have well-advanced. So over the long run, I suggest returning and returning to this course once every three to a half years.