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Generally, effective strategies and tactics for improving productivity depend largely on each individual's unique approach to personal scheduling and task management. Management styles inevitably are extensions of personalities and lifestyles. It's often most feasible for individuals to lay out plans for productivity improvement as a sequence of monthly or quarterly improvements, i.e. benchmark periods for adopting new routines and adapting to them. Let's take our composite example of a client who is a partner in owning and managing a small, fast-growing software development company, and is dealing with serious pressures on his or her own time. That client may see us initially to handle a technical bottleneck in their HQ ops, or to handle special needs that are being neglected because of overworked resources. Once the immediate task has been handled, we may sit down with him or her and begin on a list of tasks and time demands which need to be brought under control, or done (rather than postponed). Personal strategies entail mapping out and follow through with a professional plan; setting new leadership standards; getting more control over unproductive time; and staying in touch with the goal or mission. Tactics or techniques encompass skills and tools needed for leveraging time, creating and channeling energy, communicating effectively and purposefully, and completing or delegating routine matters more effectively and reliably. By laying these out in terms of a "periodic time frame" (daily, weekly, ... monthly, quarterly, ... ) we help the client get a practical fix on loose ends before they become strangleholds. And we stand by with referral information for sources they can tap to out-source the resources or services they need. |
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