High Business marketing productivity at work doesn’t have to be complicated.
You don’t need to attend all day business coaching courses teaching elaborate systems or spend months reading time management books.
In my many years of experience in business coaching mentoring of executives and entrepreneurs, I’ve found doing just one simple thing can dramatically improve anyone’s output:
Pre-planning.
Most of us arrive at work and immediately dive into emails or tasks. We think we’re being efficient by doing this but we’re making a serious error. The truth is if we spent the first fifteen minutes carefully planning our day we would get far more done.
Here’s an excellent and best business coaching four step process for planning effectively:
First, create a To Do List for the day.
Second step pick your top three most valuable tasks (very few people do this).
Third, itemize any genuinely urgent business tasks (beware of pseudo urgent activities).
And finally plan out each hour of your day in your diary or on paper, putting the important and urgent tasks at the beginning of the day.
This planning process usually takes between ten and fifteen minutes to do, but in my experience makes a stupendous difference to how much you achieve during the day.
The philosophy or pre-planning should also be applied before walking into meetings, doing important presentations or beginning critical conversations.
The more clearly you plan the better your performance will be.
We need to stop winging it and start planning it.
Our productivity depends on it.
