Learning to stay on track as a leader

Productivity is both the goal and the struggle for most leaders today. While they strive for it, they may fall short due to various circumstances and leadership styles. People waste ample hours of their day sifting through emails or attending pointless meetings, which ruins their chances of maintaining an efficient daily schedule. Whether you lead a team of two or 40, there are always helpful pieces of advice to help you stay on track and become more productivity, starting today. Here are just a couple of these tips:

Cut back on nonessential meetings
One of the best rules of thumb is: If the meeting's message can be condensed into a comprehensive email - don't hold a meeting. Too often, leaders feel compelled to hold meetings, even if they may waste everyone's time. This is because it's not just the meetings themselves that lower office productivity levels, but the time spent prepping for them, refocusing afterwards, or any extra moments that spill over past the allotted meeting timeframe. 

When you must hold face-to-face meetings, stay on message and don't try to overload your employees with too much information. If you say the meeting will be 30 minutes, aim to speak for 20 to leave room for questions or interruptions so that you don't go over your mark. Send a follow-up summary email afterwards to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

Cut out any distractions
Too often, leaders are ready to get to work and tackle the next big project, when an eye-catching online news headline draws their eye, they get a text, they absentmindedly begin perusing their social media account, or more. This is why some of the most driven leaders cut out any potential distractions when they need to go into full "work mode." There are plenty of software tools and applications nowadays that fully support leaders, like you, in trimming excessive distractions from their work like.

Furthermore, if your employees are constantly chatting with you or walking into your office every time they have a question, you may have trouble concentrating. Instead, set aside specific times during the day when your employees know they can approach you with questions or problems, or when they know you will be checking your email and getting back to them. This way, you won't lose track of what you are doing or leave your staff high and dry.

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