Do you often stare at the computer and mutter about your taskload?
Recently, has your productivity slowed down? Do you often feel overwhelmed by your workload but barely get the expected results at the end of the day?
The long lockdown required most companies to shift their working model to remote or hybrid work. This brings freedom to employees at the beginning – no more attendance records, supervision, or office rules.
But shortly after, these privileges put much pressure on strained online meetings when your team couldn’t develop solutions for work bottlenecks. Your working hours are stretched day and night without proper break time, and the worst is you are always frustrated and feeling underappreciated.
If you feel related, maybe it’s time to take a deep breath and think about more productive working methods.
It doesn’t matter how many hours you’ve worked industriously, but to what extent does your result impact?
In modern society, peer pressure and pressure to succeed may inadvertently turn employees into robots that only automatically get as much done as possible. This causes overexertion and overwhelm. A slight shift in mindset to focus more on the impact of work may be the key to your success and job satisfaction.
If you look closely at your long-running to-do list, only a few things mean to you and add more value to the company. You need to spend more resources on those things, your time, and grey matters.
If you only have time for one task, which will be prioritized? What is the most important work to you that helps your team gain achievements and impacts other long-term goals? It’s definitely not replying to emails!
The 80/20 rule says that 20% of essential tasks will create 80% of results. However, most of us tend to procrastinate on this worthy one-fifth, instead spending time on the other majority that makes very little change and is usually a waste of time. This may be because these jobs are easier to do and seem not to take too much effort, or they are old tasks that have not been decluttered yet. Let’s try some tips to cut them off:
When you spend more time thinking about the outcome, the old rules and procedures are no longer a barrier to you. By then, you have the most potential to innovate and create incredible things.
The very first step is to ask “why” before beginning to do something. “Why” questions force our brains to think more analytically and seek the most effective ways.
Only when knowing the reason for doing something can you decide what and how to achieve it. For example, by understanding the objective of an ad is to convince group A to experience the service, you only focus on this group’s behaviors and habits. As a result, you write and distribute ads more exactly to the target audience.
The productivity consultant Chris Bailey shared that if something that remains on your list is fun, don’t cut it. This means nurturing your interests and creating something more than capitalist value, which means more to you.
What has a good and lasting impact on the community, the society, the people, or even on yourself will be more meaningful. That’s what differentiates you from 21st-century robots: they just automatically finish the program.
A small switch in mind takes a lot of work and effort to eliminate the old habit of overexerting and getting things done aimlessly. In return, it is worthy because it promises a happier and more meaningful office life.
Let’s try it today and hope there will be fewer and fewer of us moping in front of the screen and asking a frustrating question, “How on earth am I doing this?”
For people-centric leaders, helping your teams answer this question can help you boost employee engagement. It’s easy to get started by working with an employee engagement survey provider.
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