Supercharge your productivity

3 tips to supercharge your productivity at work 🚀

✍🏻 Write excellent minutes 

Good minutes allow you and participants to know what they need to do after the meeting and who will do it. Excellent minutes capture the considerations for the final decisions taken as you may need to refer to it in time to come.

Whilst it seems quite basic, but many people don’t practise that and you will find repeated meetings being held re-discussing the same things over and over again before most people will not recall what needs to be done post the call as they have multiple things to juggle on their plates and they may not have taken notes too.  

📊 Present information using visual aids 

If people absorb information wrongly, the misunderstanding will likely cause repeated meetings or rework. 

There are 3 ways in which people absorb information. 

Visual learners – absorb information by sight

Auditory learners – absorb information by sound

Kinaesthetic learners – absorb information by moving

To maximise the absorption rate by at least the visual and auditory learners, I will try to not just talk verbally during meetings but screen-share / do whiteboarding and use simple visuals or small numerical numbers to illustrate my points. This is to ensure that everyone is on the same page as everyone could have a different understanding despite hearing the same things. This is  very useful during online calls and big group calls, especially those involving multiple countries (with different grasp of English). 

🛣️ Set project objectives and timelines

Trying to achieve something without an objective and a timeline is like entering a taxi and not telling the taxi driver a destination - you will never get there. Having regular cadence meetings creates the push for action as updates are expected. 

Any more productivity tips that you have to share? 

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