Slow Productivity Case study
Posted on May 10, 2024 by Delyth Morgan (Del).
Have you heard of the term slow productivity? It's a way of cutting out the noise so that every day is more productive.
Our working lives and even our private lives have become so busy, you'll often hear people say "I've been SO busy! I haven't got time for myself". Research shows that re-focussing on a task takes, on average, 23 minutes after being distracted - that doesn't support productivity. And being always busy doesn't mean we're productive either.
Slow productivity is about cutting out the daily noise - all the alerts from messages and emails, calls and pings, cluttered calendars and pointless recurring meetings - to focus on being productive.
We have become conditioned to reaching for the phone whenever there's a new message or post, just to see who it is and what it is. The idea of slow productivity is to mute those distractions or, at the very least, train ourselves not to look at them or respond to them until we've completed the essential tasks that we set ourselves first. Once those tasks have been completed, we can reply to the messages, calls and emails knowing that our day is already more productive than usual. What a great feeling!
In this workshop we focus on slow productivity as one of the essential tools for a less busy, more sustainable life that works at work and at home. The tricks for improving productivity are simple and easy to adopt and make a huge difference to what we accomplish and how we feel. No more overwhelm, better focus, improved quality of work, a sense of control and less stress.
When teams are focussed and less distracted they work better together, creating momentum, achieving more and enjoying a better work culture.
But Slow Productivity isn't just about cutting out the noise that distracts us from our work. While running this workshop we found that the majority of participants tend to put themselves last, they feel that 'time for self' iss lacking in their daily lives and that this missing component creates an imbalance overall. So we deal with that too. Making time for yourself doesn't mean your under performing or taking advantage during your working day. It means you're more balanced, better prepared to accomplish more, in less time and turning up as the best version of yourself for your team and for yourself. There's a lot that changes when you take action to be more productive:
KEY OBSERVATIONS AND LEARNING
The need to slow down to speed up
Putting ourselves first is a positive action and essential for balance
Self improvement is a tiny shift in mindset and actions done every day
Small individual improvements super-charges the collective improvement
TESTIMONIAL:
"Your session was amazing and every loved it. They are already feeling more productive and more balanced. Please come back and work with us on teamwork next"
If this feels like the type of workshop experience that could help you and your team, please get in touch for a chat and no obligation quote.