It’s weekend already. But rather than binge watching that series on Netflix, why don’t you take the time off to rejuvenate yourself to come back to work on Monday. While you take the time off, here are some articles you can read through the weekend. Not heavy reads, but tips to rock productivity.
Happy Reading!
1.The best productivity trick you’ve been looking for
More often, increase in productivity is construed as hell lotta work at minimum time. But, a refined understanding of productivity tells us it is about investing your time in work that’s required. This article lists 7 questions you can ask yourself to check if your expending your time unnecessarily.
Our favorite quote from the article:
Indeed, knowing what not to do, and what to stop doing, can make a huge difference in your happiness and productivity.
2. Forget multitasking; monotasking is the new hip in productivity
Although this article is aimed at freelancers, it is equally applicable to rest of the workforce as well. As obvious, monotasking is about ardently focusing on one thing at a time. All of us, freelancing or not, are always disturbed by pings from emails, messengers, or whatsapp. Even as we confidently set up a structure to work through the day or week, sometimes it only takes a cat video for that structure to topple down like a castle of cards. Here are 5 tips to structure your work efficiently and effectively.
Our favorite quote from the article:
The key is still to carve out a big part of your day to get just one thing done — then do that every day, week after week.
3. Bot-ing into productivity
As the article rightly points out, that question these days has been as simple as ‘to bot, or not to bot?’. Automating mundane tasks has been a key factor in increasing team productivity. This article discusses how using bots have increased the team’s productivity at HipChat by finding out from their workflow which tasks can be automated and which tasks require human intervention to achieve the result. For example, while responding to a comment on social media is best done by a human, scheduling on the other hand is effectively executed by a bot. Read more to find out how, why, and when to use automation.
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Our favorite quote from the article:
Every organization has its own specific needs, and bots can enhance chat apps in ways that help teams collaborate better, reach decisions faster, or just make things a little more fun.
4. The benefits of active rest and short working hours
This Guardian article is an interview with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang after his latest book “Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less”. As a compelling reason behind the book, he remarks that it was during his sabbatical that he got massive amount of work done and had time for serious thinking. This is a must read for anyone who’s leading a busy life without any rest.
Our favorite quote from the article:
The research is very clear that no matter what kind of work you do, overwork is going to impact your productivity for the worse.
5. Productivity during travel
Travelling this weekend? This article tells you how the time you spend on an airplane is the best time to get things done and be super productive. Here are some quick and do-able tips to increase productivity and decrease stress.
Our favorite quote from the article:
Remember you can’t predict the future, nor go back in time, but you can make the best use of your time today. So stop making excuses and be productive.
You are now all set to own your week like this 👇 👇
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