Productivity demands creativity
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Simon Sinek
Limited resources + optimism = innovation
How do we get
How do we get creative?
- Surround yourself with creative and innovative people.
- Be willing to implement something that is “not perfect”. Waiting for a perfect, well-rounded solution is not a creative process.
- Look at the internet! There are so many solutions floating on the web. Find out what others are doing to solve the same problems.
- Give yourself grace! These solutions will allow you to scale your business and your life.
These solutions will allow you to scale your business and your life.
Here are some practical
Here are some practical steps that you may take to streamline your workplace productivity.
- SCHEDULE your email follow-ups.
- Get an appointment booking software so you avoid sending countless emails going back and forth.
- Get an app so you can schedule text messages (Kinda like the emails).
- A ‘To-Do list’ connected to my email.Use Microsoft’s To Do, and it will read if you flag an email and add it to your To do List.
To pursue innovation it
To pursue innovation it requires creativity.
Creativity is one of the first steps to innovation.
Before you can roll out a new innovation, you have to get creative and design a solution to our business model.
This creativity will lead to innovation, which will then generate a reduction in overhead and push our productivity ahead.
If you are working
If you are working hard at this process, then you will see some success come out of it.
That success will equal innovation and will enable you to free up your time.
If you are on
If you are on a customer call, and they ask you to email them a reminder on Friday to submit a task. Rather than creating a reminder to remind yourself to remind them.
Create the email on the call with them, click on Schedule for Later and select your date and time.
Done. No need to work on that task later.
In order to streamline and get more work done we need to get creative with our solutions.