Killing Time: How to Destroy Your Productivity

Created by COLUMN FIVE Marketo KILLING TIME HOW TO DESTROY YOUR PRODUCTIVITY As your company searches for new ways to boost productivity and increase sales, it's important to be aware of the ways your plans can be thwarted. Turns out, your everyday work habits may actually be standing in the way of your success. Want to know how to kill your productivity? Do these seven things. Checking your email is so second nature that you don't even think twice about it. But the emails you're receiving are likely asking you to do things that aren't nearly as important as the items on your to-do list. Checking your email at least once every two minutes and attending the incoming requests is one of the easiest ways to keep your productivity to a bare minimum. CHECK YOUR EMAIL EVERY TWO MINUTES. click click click click Marketo click 2. Your anxiety-producing, cluttered-to-the-hilt workspace is one of the best ways to keep you from being productive. To assure maximum stress and minimum productivity, never file papers where they ought to go. The anxiety that builds from knowing how much time it will take to get your desk in order will help to effectively diminish your productivity. KEEP YOUR DESK CLUTTERED. Novelty Mug x 2 Marketo Misplaced Folders iPod Snow Globe Lost Fax Stapler Work Slippers Old Ham & Cheese Playing Cards Free Pencils and Pens 3. BE AS The less ergonomically minded you are, the more your body will ache and be fatigued. A cheap-o chair will work wonders as you seek to keep your productivity to a minimum. UN-ERGONOMICAL AS POSSIBLE. Far Too Overly-Adequate Lumbar Support Comfortable 4. MAKE SURE TO MULTITASK, Studies show that multitasking reduces your IQ by 10 points. Bravo! There is no better way for you to make sure your work doesn't get done properly (or on time) than to juggle 2, 3, 4, or even 5 tasks at once. Texting Phone Conferencing Faxing Emailing Marketo Thigh Mastering Cat Sitting 5. Set up notifications for all of your online activities, such as Skype, IM, email, social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), news, and anything else that will distract you from the work that needs to get done. Oh, and make sure every device you own is also connected. Send those notifications to your desktop, laptop, personal and work mobile phones, and tablet to make sure it's impossible NOTIFY THE HELL OUT OF YOUR LIFE. to avoid distraction. Ring! Beep! Beep! Alert! Beep! Ring! Ring! Alert! eee le ATTENTION! GOOD YEAR ATTENTION! 9952 41 574! Alert! On ATTENTION ATTEN Marketo 6. An open-door policy is mandatory if you wish to remain unproductive. After switching gears to engage in unimportant conversation, there is a huge chance you won't return to the task you were doing. Give others permission to hound you with trivial requests all day long, and you'll be golden. ALLOW OTHERS TO BUG YOU. Marketo 7. At the beginning of each day, make an excessively long to-do list on multiple sheets of paper around your workspace. Make the list full of items that you know you can't possibly finish that day, and update the to-do lists as new, and hopefully pointless, tasks present themselves. Once you've completed a task, don't check it off the list. This is to ensure you remain stressed, on edge, and thinking about all the things you have to do, rather than focused on your current project. CREATE AN IMPOSSIBLY LONG TO-DO LIST. Marketa Stop killing productivity and start increasing the effectiveness of your sales and marketing teams. With Marketo you will spend your time closing sales instead of twiddling your thumbs. www.Marketo.com SOURCE: DEXTRONET.COM Marketo