Do you feel like your productivity is slipping? Perhaps you're even succumbing
to some distractions and disruptions at work. In this video I'm going to share
with you my favorite tips on improving your productivity in the workforce and
if you stay tuned to the end of this video I have ten, count ten, really out-of-
the-box, my master productivity hack tricks that
I'm going to share with you. For tips on accelerating your professional career,
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every Wednesday. Hi, I'm Adriana Girdler, a business
productivity specialist with over twenty years in the business helping both
businesses and individuals do what they do but better. With a lot of distractions
like social media, the internet, and juggling, it's really easy to have our
productivity sucked up and what I'm going to share with you in this video is
how to improve your workplace productivity so come with me, let's check
it out. Prioritize your work. Are you working on the right things? A lot of
times people don't. They're just working on things that are keeping them busy or
because someone just dumped it on them and there's just a lot of energy around
like, this has to get done now! But, not necessarily a priority, so really
understand what is it you're supposed to do, focus on your goals and make sure
that you link those two together so that what you're working on is of high
priority so that every step you take is moving you forward towards a goal. So
many tasks but so little time! If you can relate, let me know in the comment below.
Eliminate distractions. We are constantly under pressure! Coming down on me, coming
down on you... and now what are you going to do? It is amazing the amount of
pressure that we have at work. We're constantly chatting and through those
chats and discussions and meetings and all that other stuff we have a lot to do
but then we have these distractions going on all around us. So what are the
top things you can do to start eliminating these distractions? Well, turn
off all notifications for your text and your email because those little bings
and dings and particularly the ones that pop up in the corner of your screen will
suck up your time. Another one that you can do, is really
helpful, is only check your email twice. I know it's like I'm telling you to do
something that you probably want to be constantly doing which is checking email
but have you ever done an email in less than really a minute? You probably had to
think about it, write it out and it takes up and sucks up more time than you
realize and the most important thing you could do with eliminating distractions
is to give yourself a block of time, in fact do these power hours, it is a way, 50
minutes, five-zero that's all you need to get a chunk of time and if you can set
aside a power hour either on your door, if you have a cubicle you can place it on
something to hold off and say hey, don't bother me, I'm either available or I'm
not available but this little block of time that you're gonna set aside for
yourself is huge, you'll be amazed what you can get done and if you just
scheduled in three of those you are rocking it out as a Productivity
Rockstar so do it! Plan tomorrow today you know what really slows you down? When
you wake up in the morning and you have no idea what is on your to-do list or
even what your meetings are and you walk in and then you sit down and you try to
figure it all out, an hour can go by just like that because you're trying to
figure it all out. What I recommend highly is you do it at the end of your
day and really, you only need a good 15 minutes. You're already and the groove of
work, check out what your meetings are, plan accordingly, and do your to-do list
and at the end, just tidy up your desk. It's really cool when you walk in with
your cup of coffee, drink a little bit and you're sitting down a clean desk and
you can start your day. Time to delegate. There will be a point in your career
when the workload just gets to be too much and enter delegation. This is where
you take a look at delegation and it can really improve productivity overall not
only for yourself but for your organization so how do you look at
delegation? Well, you got to take a look at everything that's on your task list
and what you were asked to accomplish and then you got to see, are some things
easy to do? Not easy to do? Are there people around that can do it for you
internally or do you have to outsource it but really do think about it, you
can't get everything done and if you think you can get everything done and
your workload is huge then you're not going to get it at the good quality and
really having poor quality does not help productivity so really take a look at
delegation. I have a cool video, too, check it out,
that gives you some more information on this great topic on when to delegate and
when not to delegate because there is a time and a place for this. Now if you
really want to rev up your productivity, I've created a productivity master hack
checklist, grab it from the link below. Please subscribe to this channel, give
this video a thumbs up and share it with all the professionals that you know. If
you've used any of these productivity hacks or you have some good ones please
share them with me, I'd love to hear from you and put them in the comment below.