Leadership strategies to focus your team on winning while freeing them from the productivity trap
Brendan Reid is an accomplished career coach, author and executive. He shares leadership lessons and career advice on his blog,We need 15 per cent more leads than last year.If we don’t get more features released, we’re going to start losing.
So, why do we obsess over productivity? Why do we worry if our team members are working hard enough, long enough? Why do we build plans to grow every metric we can think of? Why are we obsessed with volume when we should be focused on value? Here are a set of leadership strategies to focus your team on winning while freeing them from the productivity trap:It’s increasingly difficult to think long-term when you work for a company. Tenures are shorter than ever; companies come and go. Organizations are measured on quarterly performance, if not monthly. Our performance reviews and promotion cycles are annual. The gravitational pull at work is to think short term. And so, we set arbitrary short-term growth goals.
If the pareto principle applies to your team, imagine the efficiency to be gained by reducing focus on the low-impact 80 per cent? Imagine how freeing that would be for your team? How much more creative they could be with that time? Gross productivity might go down, but impact and value creation would skyrocket.
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