A huge thank you — UNBLOCK is off to an amazing start!
Wow — what a week I had last week! Monday kicked off with the Kindle launch of UNBLOCK, followed by the official book launch on Tuesday. Thanks to all of your support, UNBLOCK hit #1 in Hot New Releases across three different categories!
Why Consistency Matters
Consistency is the bedrock of productivity, ensuring that processes are repeatable, reliable, and effective.
Here are three key reasons why consistency matters.
Understanding the Productivity Pyramid
A crucial concept from UNBLOCK: the Productivity Pyramid. This model encapsulates the four key drivers of productivity: People, Process, Promise, and Price. To reach the peak of productivity, you need to focus on all four areas.
The Four Productivity Drivers Explained
By focusing on four drivers—people, process, promise, and price—you can create a balanced and effective productivity strategy. For more detailed insights and practical examples, be sure to explore "UNBLOCK" when it launches.
How to Conduct an Unblock Audit™: A Step-by-Step Guide
Today I want to share some key insights from the book on how to conduct an Unblock Audit™. This process is pivotal in identifying and overcoming productivity barriers in your organisation. Here are three key takeaways to get you started:
Task level improvements don’t drive productivity
In a recent Forbes.com article, Carter Busse makes the point that company productivity does not come from tasks, rather it is derived from well-structured processes.
It’s a sentiment with which I agree. There are thousands of books on personal productivity and yet we continue to suffer from poor, or stagnant productivity and have done so now for over fifteen years.
Write process not a manifesto
I’m reading Neurodiversity at Work[i] at present, a recent publication by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith. In it they say: We also need to ensure that diversity and inclusion is a part of all our processes and not a policy that is written and then stuck in a drawer.
I would argue that all too often processes are written and then stuck in a folder/drawer and never communicated, followed or implemented…
Have you outgrown your current software?
If software had a sell-by date I’m sure that UK productivity would be far higher than it has been since 2008.
Managing Cashflow Requires Purposeful Pacesetting
Companies with a traumatic productivity culture must focus on cash flow. Rather like a marathon runner has a pacesetter to do a put in a good time, when trauma strikes, a business needs its own pacesetter to measure the pace of cash flow collection, because without cash, as we all know, a business will fail.
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.