9 Steps to Supercharge Your Productivity with Creativity

Written by Avish Parashar


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Prioritize every item on your list. A simple way to do this is look at your list and ask yourself, 'atrepparttar end of today, what one thing on my list, if finished, will haverepparttar 104638 biggest positive impact on my life?' The answer to that is your number one priority. Ask that question again withrepparttar 104639 remaining items on your list. That's your number two item. Continue this until your list is complete.

7. Schedule those activities

For every action item in step 5, schedule when you will do it and how long it will take. Resolve to stick torepparttar 104640 schedule. You can take two approaches to scheduling. First, andrepparttar 104641 way to ensure you getrepparttar 104642 most important work done, is to schedule your first priority item first inrepparttar 104643 day, then your second, and so on. You can also schedule your high priority items during your most productive hours. You have high and low productive times duringrepparttar 104644 day. You know when they are, not me (if you don't know, pay attention to yourself forrepparttar 104645 next couple of weeks and figure it out). Scheduling this way ensures you devote your best time torepparttar 104646 most important activities, but if your most productive time is not first thing inrepparttar 104647 morning you run a greater risk of your high priority items not being done.

8. Go withrepparttar 104648 Flow

Be aware thatrepparttar 104649 day has a way of stealing your time. Keep your 80/20 priorities in mind when new things come up. Make sure to prioritize and evaluate new things that come. Don't sacrifice an important item on your list to do something less important. Atrepparttar 104650 same time, keep an open mind and be willing to flow with new items. Your schedule and list is there to help you - if something new comes up that will be more beneficial for you, go with it.

9. Go one at a time

Work through you list and schedule inrepparttar 104651 order you have it. For big tasks, don't be overwhelmed byrepparttar 104652 number of tasks, just work through them one at a time. Put your attention solely onrepparttar 104653 task at hand. Forrepparttar 104654 vital action items, try to remove distractions. Turn offrepparttar 104655 phone, closerepparttar 104656 door, or work at a time when everyone else is asleep. You can finish a task that you might think would take you three hours in one hour if you put 100% of your attention on it.

Try following these 9 steps and watch your productivity explode!

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Give your stakeholders a raise - increase asset productivity!

Written by Frank Williams


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Inrepparttar above example,repparttar 104637 company worked hard in defining, tracking and increasing all corporate assets - not just those insiderepparttar 104638 company, but outside too, alongrepparttar 104639 entire value chain. Beginning initiatives moved inventory turns from a meager 3 to almost 15 in less than one year. This freed-up working capital and reduced short-term debt. By working withrepparttar 104640 firm's vendors, (real-time stock programs and moving to partner relationships) they were able to get more ofrepparttar 104641 ‘right' inventory atrepparttar 104642 right time. This increasedrepparttar 104643 firm's flexibility to deliver product to customers. Scrap levels were also lowered. Strengthening product life-cycle management (see Marketing Tip #106 Product Life Cycle Management - It Pays!) had tremendous impact on asset productivity. Raw material obsolesces went down by a factor of 10. Manufacturing was able to move to a build-to-order mode. This reduced finished goods inventory by 90%. Atrepparttar 104644 same time, customer delivery went from less than on week to shipments of 85% ofrepparttar 104645 firm's product offering inrepparttar 104646 same day with no margin penalty.

The company also put-into-play longer-term asset improvements as part of their business practices and new product design philosophies. Strategic decisions regarding engineering designs and manufacturing strategies (relating to build and quality levels) are now more coordinated and expected to yield on-going benefits.

Clearly, a paradigm shift occurred inrepparttar 104647 senior management's thinking. The company now routinely tracks their asset productivity gains. Asset management and improvement objectives are an integral part of their annual operational plans and a key aspect to their business strategy.

So far, this organization realized an increase in asset productivity of almost 19% -repparttar 104648 equivalent of over $1M dollars of improvement inrepparttar 104649 first year. This financial flexibility allowed senior management to return more stakeholder value while more aggressively investing in additional, growth-oriented marketing, sales and engineering programs forrepparttar 104650 future.

Parting thoughts

Freeing up working capital is a significant by-product of strong asset management. Senior executives at well-run companies understandrepparttar 104651 value of working capital. The more you haverepparttar 104652 more flexibility forrepparttar 104653 company. Smart managers turn this flexibility into good choices that increase shareholder value and build future growth forrepparttar 104654 organization.

Be one of these smart managers and work on increasing your asset productivity today!



Frank Williams is a marketer.

With many post graduate courses in management, leadership, marketing and technology to his credit, Williams is a widely respected speaker, author and technologist. He has significant knowledge in marketing strategies and is the founder and CEO of Global Marketing, Inc. - a leader in business, marketing and sales consulting

Other valuable articles can be found at: http://members.cox.net/glmarketing/glmarketing/index.htm


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