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Personal Productivity:

Personal Productivity:. Eliminating Barriers for Improved Effectiveness Local Government Conference. Joseph Pillittere , MSOM. What is Productivity?. T he effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.

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Personal Productivity:

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  1. Personal Productivity: Eliminating Barriers for Improved Effectiveness Local Government Conference Joseph Pillittere, MSOM

  2. What is Productivity? The effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.

  3. Self-Efficacy “A person’s belief about his/hers chances of successfully accomplishing a task.”

  4. How one builds self-efficacy… • Experience • Behavior models • Persuasion from others • Physical and emotional state

  5. Psychologist Albert Bandura, Stanford University

  6. What is this?

  7. Proactive People • Identify opportunities • Show initiative • Take action • Persevere until meaningful change occurs J.M. Crant, 2000, Journal of Management

  8. How would you tackle this problem?

  9. How to be More Productive… • Zeigarnik Effect (BlumaZeigarnik, Russian Psychologist) Just get started!

  10. How to be More Productive… • Break big projects down • Short breaks between longer productive sessions • Helps maintain high energy levels

  11. How to be More Productive… • Accountability Chart • Column 1 lists the time-span of one of your productivity sessions • Column 2 lists what tasks Increases self-control and prevents “busy work”

  12. How to be More Productive… • STOP multi-tasking • Research shows that on average, multi-taskers are actually less likely to be productive • Evening plan instead

  13. Final Note: Control your Environment • Task Association • Design for Laziness • Implementation Intentions • Routinize with Systems • Work on your own agenda

  14. The End Questions?

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