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Productivity Tips From Incredibly Busy People

Productivity Tips From Incredibly Busy People 1. Have a single purpose focus. "Pick one thing and do that one thing—and only that one thing—better than anyone else ever could." We can derive a great deal of power from developing a laser focus on our top business priorities. It's one of the attributes that sets apart the average businessperson from the more successful one.

2. Ruthlessly block out distractions. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova says, "I concentrate on concentrating." For those of us who don't have the willpower to be self-accountable, there are several technology solutions for blocking out distractions.

3. Set a strict time limit on meetings. People generally don't need as much time as they ask for. Meetings are time vampires. Be ruthless in managing this endemic productivity drain so you can focus on high value tasks.

4. Set up productivity rituals. Set up rituals to automate behaviors that will make us more productive, without depleting our energy reservoir. One of them is prioritizing one key task to accomplish per day, and starting your day focused on that task. Look at Seth Godin and Zig Ziggler with Law of 4

"Force yourself to prioritize so that you know that you will finish at least that one critical task during the period of the day when you have the most energy and the fewest distractions.

5. Get up earlier. Use the mantra "mind over mattress" to motivate yourself to get out of bed to pursue your goals.

6. Group your interruptions. see how you can ask others on your team to group questions, requests and other non-urgent inquiries so you're not distracted by interruptions that don't add value.

7. Outsource personal chores. Highly productive people are selective about how they expend their energy. They don't waste it on tasks that others can do.

8. Set up email rules to maintain sanity. Analyze your email habits and institute time-saving policies that work for your particular situation.

9. Capture all creative ideas. Most leaders and entrepreneurs are visionaries who generally don't lack good ideas; however, capturing all these ideas is often a challenge for busy people. Evernote is a popular, free program for collecting ideas.

10. Increase your effectiveness through technology. There's a wealth of programs to make a small-business owner more effective in increasing productivity. A few popular tools—some of which are free—include Dropbox to store files online; GoToWebinar or Zoom to host a webinar; Canvas Planner, and Hootsuite or Buffer to schedule your social media postings.

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3. Leading a Remote Team Successfully

To lead an effective remote team successfully, managers must learn new techniques for communication, task direction and team building that do not require physical proximity.

4. Essential Keys to Leading a Remote Workforce:

Leading a team during a crisis is a test in and of itself. When that team is remote, it can be more challenging. Here’s a few suggestions above and beyond what you might already do as a leader under normal circumstances and above and beyond the steps you may be doing in the execution of your business continuity plan.

Clear communication is crucial. Leading remote teams is hard enough but during a crisis it can become much more difficult. Clear communication is crucial. And it should use multiple means including phone, video call, email, chat and other methods (e.g. posting to an Intranet, etc). Be crisp, simple and when necessary repeat your communication. Now’s not the time for you, as their leader, to go dark. Be decisive. Employees hate it when leadership waffles or is unable to make deci