How to Stay Focused on the Tasks at Hand
This is how to remove distractors from your workday
It’s easy to get distracted at work.
We have traditional distractions like phone calls, noisy colleagues, and drop-in conversations.
And modern distractions like instant messaging, smartphones, and the internet.
We are interrupted multiple times during the day. Research says 99% of employees say they are distracted from their job sometime during their workday.
After we are distracted, the ability to refocus quickly rarely happens. We lose time, and our work performance is impacted. For example, if you were composing an email and then an instant message pops up, it’s tough to refocus on your email again.
When your attention is fragmented, your stress increases, and this impacts your work performance.
One of the keys to increasing your productivity at work is to remove distractions as much as possible. There are externally-driven distractors such as colleagues wanting to talk to you vs. internally-driven distractions such as motivation.
Here are 10 ways to minimize distractions and maximize your time at work to get things done.
