Personal Productivity

The 'New Professional' needs increasing productivity.

Wikipedia suggests that a 'professional' is someone…

• with specialized formal education
• has economic security
• has a comfortable salary
• etc.

Security and Comfort?

Are you kidding me?!

You only need look at job loss counts, and talk to professionals to know there is no comfortable salary or economic security…

A 2007 study by the Center for Creative Leadership found that nearly 92 percent of the executives surveyed believe the challenges their organizations face are more complex than they were just five years ago.

Isn’t that pretty darn obvious?

Give a moments thought to the macro-factors effecting your professional success…

• Bigger work force competing for the top jobs
• Acceleration of business innovation and new technology
• Online access to specialist knowledge
• Outsourcing options
• Politics increasingly seen as a barrier to world progress
• Generation-Y joining the workforce
• Higher expectations from Executive management
• Global recession type issues

How does that effect you?

Micro-factors like:

• You have got more to juggle today than you had to juggle yesterday.
• Higher expectations from Executive management.
• More opportunities to take advantage of (global, outsourcing, training, lifestyle, etc).

How does the New Professional (NP) get and stay ahead?

And the bottom line is this:

"Doors of opportunity open to the New Professional based on his or her results"

And results depend on how well you maximise each of the 4 success factors of the NP: 7 Principles of Productivity, Relationships, Skills, and Experience.

Explore the NP's 7 principles of productivity here..

• Manage time by what’s priority, necessary, and available.
• The key to organizing things is the ability to ask good questions.
• Efficiency is far more important than being organized.
• Effectiveness is more important than efficiency.
• If you can’t describe what you’re doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing (thus can’t be effective or efficient).
• Sustained performance depends on working hard for short focussed periods of time and then playing and resting completely to renew yourself.
• Integrated Thinking gives you the power to quickly build success puzzles for new areas of increasing productivity.

Starting with the first productivity principle: time management.

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