What is keeping you from achieving your goals? What are your big distractions?
Try these strategies to accelerate your personal productivity and overcome personal gravity.
Conduct a self-audit – spend time with yourself and identify where you waste time so you can eliminate, delegate or designate to someone else. This self audit can also include knowing your strengths, determining where you enjoy spending most of your time and areas you wish to avoid spending time on. A great resource in the area of understanding your strengths is Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath. This small book allows you to conduct an online audit to identify your top five strengths and outlines ideas for actions – definitely worth reading to help you with your self-audit.
Hire a Business Manager – if you are running a practice that can fund a business manager this will be a huge asset to your team and personal productivity. In the Thought Leaders community we share a great model that outlines three roles of a practice make up, set up and clean up. It explains in every practice the role of ‘make up’ is the subject matter expertise. The expert is typically a consultant, speaker, author, trainer, mentor, facilitator or coach (ideally a combination of all of these). The role of ‘set up’ is for the business manager, set up meetings, contracts, operational focus for their role. The role of’ clean up’ (the third option) is once your practice is highly profitable, is the Executive Assistant of the Business Manager – yes you read it right, not your assistant but theirs! Our Business Manager Maria is the key to the operational success of our practice and my job as a thought leader is to think, sell and deliver.
Could you hire a business manager for your practice?
Conduct a Time Audit – choose one activity you believe you are potentially spending too much time on or wasting time i.e. social media, then log how many minutes/hours you spend on this one activity – the results might scare you. I once tried a social media ban for a week – I only lasted a few hours before being tempted to check in… it was at that point I realized I had a social media addiction and had to be more strategic in my time spent online.
Are you aware of activities where you might be wasting time?
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