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Minimizing Distractions
Distractions can sabotage your time and productivity.
To minimize distractions, consider:
* Silencing your phone for calls and texts when you are
working on reports and analyses.
* When a team member brings a problem to you,
require him/her to bring three possible solutions to
you to discuss and review. Then, after reviewing their
options, let the employee make the decision, giving
them ownership, accountability and responsibility
for the decision. Use this as a teachable moment, so
they can make those types of decisions without your
involvement in the future.
* As you respect the time of your team, emphasize that
they need to respect yours. Establish and communicate
your time boundaries to your team so you can
concentrate and focus on your own tasks and to-do list.
* Delegate more. This will free up more time to focus
on your to-do list and have the capacity to add more
tasks and activities daily, while challenging your team
to tackle new opportunities.
On a daily basis, start your day with small successes,
which breeds motivation, confidence and momentum. It
reminds me of the commencement speech that Admiral
William H. McRaven, U.S. Navy (retired), a SEAL who
commanded the Special Operations Command, gave at
The University of Texas-Austin in 2014, addressing the 10
lessons he learned during his SEAL training that could be
of value to the graduates throughout their lives (search
" McRaven Make Your Bed speech " on YouTube for the video
and transcript of his speech).
He said every morning in basic SEAL training they were
required to make their beds to perfection. The wisdom
was that if you make your bed every morning you will
have accomplished your first task of the day, setting the
momentum to complete another task. By the end of the
day, that simple task of making the bed will have turned
into many tasks completed.
Making the bed also reinforces that little things in life
matter - if you can't do the little things right, you will
never do the big things right, he said.
Time is finite; take control of it and use it wisely.
Managing your time (and that of others!) will increase
your capacity to get things done, especially the things
that add value to your customers and your business. But
it takes discipline and commitment to achieve. Start your
day off with early, quick successes and build on that:
Make your bed.
Stan Pohmer is president of Pohmer Consulting Group in
Minnetonka, Minnesota. He can be reached at spohmer@
pohmer-consulting.com.
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