13 Wonder Working Productivity Enhancement Steps for Employee Turned Entrepreneurs

13 Wonder Working Productivity Enhancement Steps for Employee Turned Entrepreneurs

Summary

Are you a newbie in business venture getting swamped with activities? Do you feel overwhelmed and feel that you have bitten more than you could chew? Here are 13 effective ways to improve your productivity.

Introduction

When a working salaried professional decides to venture into entrepreneurship, the individual has taken life altering decision. The individual has chosen a path that is less travelled filled with uncertainty. In the pursuit of doing well and with perfection an individual tends to overwork himself. In reality smart work is what will yield quicker results. Being a newbie to have sense of control you choose to micro-manage and then many a time this could be overwhelming. This sense of overwhelming yields doubts and unless you are highly motivated or have an ecosystem to keep you going achieving your goal may seem impossible. With laundry list of tasks to get the venture launched and then work towards to the achievement could seem to be herculean task. Most of the times all this need is just a little iteration in the way of doing your work and that is what we are focused here to do. Here some well researched successful productivity formula that has helped many first-generation entrepreneurs. Some of them may seem extremely simple yet very impactful.

13 Tips to Enhance Your Productivity

1. Start Your Day Early

It is a proven theory that a person who starts your day early you achieve more. You look up the success of billionaires or a top performer in a team mostly would be early risers. This is help you with a good head start for the day. You can explore reading up books on 5 am club and learn to structure your day.  In addition to waking up, always have a glass of water as soon as you wake up. This keeps hydrated and fresh.

 2. Structure Your Day

This is most important. You are the best judge what time is best for your best performance.

Based on the general energy levels of the day allocate time for thinking, answering mails, Meetings. Do not swap the allocated time like for eg do not swap your thinking time with the activity of answering mails.  

 3. Organize Your Desks

Surprised with the title but a truth. Always have your desk in order. When you close your day, order your desk as sign of the completing your work for the day. This way you would be welcome to a clean desk for the start. A clean organized desk gives a sense of accomplishment. It gives a welcoming feel and freshness to start your day.

 4.Continuous Improvement – Kaizen for Life

Continuous progress is the key to success. It is to important to be perfect or get it right in first try, but it is imperative to inculcate the habit of continuous progress. Habit is repeating an activity, and this leads to perfection. On doing a process on continuous basis and with a goal of reducing the turn around time results in opportunity of improving the process by either eliminating certain non-value-added steps or automation. This step is crucial in keep your venture afloat.

 5.Create Working Ambience

You have just started. May not be that you have rented an office space. Or in todays world where a lot of work can be done remotely you probably are working from home. However, it is important to have proper ergonomics friendly working space. Convert it to your corner. You may have any unique object that symbolizes the reason you started this business.

 6.Cut Out/ Avoid distraction

We live in a world where we are prone to a lot of distraction. You may be working on critical projects and you may have an overwhelming number of phones calls which may be of no value at all. When you are in razor sharp focus time, put your phone on silent. Be mindful and be present in the now. We may tend to get carried away in our dream space.

 7. Do not Multi-task

Multi-task – Big No at working. This is because you will not be able to give 100% focus on the task at hand while you attempt to multi-task. Finesse and accuracy may not achieve when your multi-task

 8.Time Block

90 minutes time block. When you start a critical task dedicate 90 minutes with unwavering focus. You may choose to place your messenger on do not d, phone on silent. Every possible way to shut off your distraction. You can also choose not to talk to your colleagues during the 90 minutes block

9.Delegate Your Work

Starting your new venture will make you have an urge to micromanage. This may lead you to dilute your focus. Learn to delegate your work to your team members. You could choose to be in charge of the bigger task or value-added task instead. Example: leave the execution part to your team members with regular cadence to check the progress. You can oversee the framework and proposed outcome.

10. Spend Time on Learning and Stay Relevant

While you may have started the new venture, what we have always experienced is many businesses sees the end because they do not upgrade or stay relevant to the market. You need a customer base to have the cash inflow and if we do not deliver to the customers expectation then you are heading to direction of failure. Always allocate time to learn and read about the upcoming trends in the market. This would help you prepare way ahead giving you the needed edge over your competitors. Choose to be a student for life. 

11. Blow of Your Steam

Allocate a daily time to blow of your steam. You may be stressed that you are not seeing the results needed. Pick an activity that will help you stay active and blow of your steam or it could mean just have a social life. Have one or two ways of venting out your frustration but bear in mind to have a healthy activity

 12.Reflect and Plan

Mission, vision of your venture is put down before the start of the venture. When you start the year, you envision the result for the year and start working towards it. While you have the yearly plan, it is wise to have monthly plan and further break it down into the weekly plan. Before you hit the bed, have your next day planned. Choose your frequency to review your adherence of the plan.

13. Make Technology Your Best Friend

With a lot in hand carrying a notebook which has your plan and to do list may not be the best suited. Choose technology like google keep, one note or other productivity that helps you keep a track your and measure your achievements.

Conclusion

The above steps are sure shot result-oriented solutions that will help an employee turned entrepreneur to be the highly productive right from the start. Instead of implementing in a single go try the formula of establishing each step as habit and one at a time. Do one step for 21 days and then add on the next step, in this way this achievable and you would see the productivity in an upward trajectory. You may comment below on what are the other productivity tips or hacks that has helped you in your entrepreneurial journey.

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 Written by Reshma Jacob HR Professional and Digital Writopreneurs