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Creating a Systematic Productivity Culture
Here are some strategies from UNBLOCK on creating a systematic productivity culture. This approach focuses on throwing off lethargy and taking a proactive, structured role in improving productivity.
Productivity growth requires change management
Learning shouldn’t stop when we leave formal education
The impact of lethargy on our economy
In order to increase our productivity we need to understand lethargy
To overcome lethargy focus on promise
Improving productivity requires us to change what we are doing, and do things differently. As humans we resist change. We often like the idea, provided it doesn’t affect us.
How goods is your pit crew?
We have a new game at home, it’s the F1 game for the PS4. I live in a male-dominated household where my boys have picked up on my husband’s love of F1 and are equally addicted.
Are your processes explicit or implicit?
Within all businesses, various operations need to happen to deliver the goods or services to the end-user. In very few enterprises are these formally documented.
Do you have a team of sherpas?
One of the challenges of growing a business is ensuring that the staff you employ are as productive as you used to be when you were delivering the products or services. I know when I used to run a software company, we were never as productive once I stopped writing code. There are so many reasons why this might be the case, and one of these lies in the engagement of the people in the business.