//WE HAVE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO REACH
THE POINT WHERE TO BE BUSY AND OVERWHELMED IS A BADGE WE WEAR WITH HONOUR AND OUR MOST COMMON TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.//
LET’S START WITH HOW WE MEASURE WORK PERFORMANCE AND KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS We are being asked to be more productive. This was an appropriate thing to ask of workers at the start of the Industrial Revolution when we were trying to produce more of the same product from a manufacturing plant.
Surely that is no longer our goal, right? Blindly sending more emails, making more phone calls, or even working longer hours is not necessarily going to result in better outcomes. Shouldn’t our work targets now be related to the quality of the conversations and connections we are making, rather than number of them? Shouldn’t we now be focused upon ‘smart strategies’ rather than ‘productivity’? Aren’t we living in a world where people are already overwhelmed? Wouldn’t it make sense to do less of something that was better quality and more relevant and improve businesses that way? Most of us spend our working day
reacting to urgent issues rather than planning what we want and making that happen. What if at the start of each day you were strategic and you:
1. Set your intention for the day: Determine what you want as the outcome from your day and then set about planning your priorities, energies, and actions accordingly.
2. Set strong boundaries: One manager I know has a tiara on her desk that she wears when she needs some quiet time to finish a job. No-one messes with the Queen and she takes it off again when she has finished the urgent job.
3. Start ditching stuff that doesn’t matter: goals you keep ignoring but leave on your ‘to do’ list, people, and activities that waste your time. Focus your intention instead on the things and people that really matter, including yourself and your health.
YOUR BRAIN IS TRYING TO KILL YOU One of the reasons it is so difficult to cope with chaos in the workplace is because of the way our brains evolved. They are hardwired to notice and be alarmed by changes in your environment. These changes are a warning that you might be in danger of being eaten. This fantastic alarm system now drives us bonkers at work because it makes us easily distracted by emails, text messages, conversations in the adjacent work station, ringing phones, and the beeping of the printer that has run out of paper and which everyone else is managing to ignore. We are so
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