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Confession: I am a little obsessed about productivity. If you’re like most people, your response to this information will be a polite smile and awkward silence. My interest in productivity has made me either a convert to hustle culture, a wellness charlatan, or a boring mid-level manager. These are the negative images productivity can conjure.
Productivity is often associated with the mid-level manager.
Many people find productivity difficult.
It doesn’t need to. This article will give you ideas on how DPMs can help to foster realistic productivity standards, influence their organizations to adopt new ways of working, and improve team focus, output, efficiency, and collaboration.
This article explains.
What is Productivity?
Productivity and the Future of Knowledge Work
Digital project managers play a key role in shaping the future work environment
The Knowledge Worker Revolution
What is Productivity?
The dominant narrative is that productivity is about doing everything. This includes sharing details about our social lives via Insta and making a commitment to self-care. We don’t believe we can be productive unless we have completed all of our to-do lists.
Productivity should not be about quantity over quality. Productivity should not be about quantity over quality. It should be about being able create and foster innovation. It should be a sign we are working effectively in a community that fosters mental safety and empowers our team to do their best work.
Productivity and the Future of Knowledge Work
I recently read Cal Newport’s book A World Without Email. (I warned you that I am obsessed with productivity. One of the key findings was that organizations fail to provide the support that knowledge workers need in order to perform at their best.
Although some companies may invest in productivity software, how many of their employees are spending their day in endless meetings, then going to bed at night to “real work”?
Do you have unhealthy professional boundaries?
Instead of streamlining processes and trying new ways of working, try streamlining them. Instead of trying new ways of working or streamlining processes, you can streamline them. Prioritizing what is most important is the default “solution”. It’s not about streamlining processes or trying new ways of working. It is about encouraging people to be more productive. You can disable notifications Batch your email! Do yoga! Eat the frog! Even if we can create productive practices that work for us, we are limited by the system within which we work.
The good news is that there may be a turning point.
Annual labor productivity growth from 2001–2021 Q1 Bureau of Labor Statistics. As you can see, the growth in hockey sticks began in 2021. (Source)
According to the MIT Technology Review, the United States is set to experience a productivity boom. This is due in part to technological innovation, digitization and reorganization. This environment will yield the greatest benefits to those organizations that are willing to take risks and tap into the latent productivity for knowledge workers.
Remote work and its accompanying technology are becoming more popular. This gives us unprecedented flexibility in our ability to communicate asynchronously from different locations and time zones with colleagues.
The desire to communicate synchronously, and possibly the lack of commute time, seems to be driving us all to work longer hours and hold endless meetings. How can digital project managers navigate these emerging trends to power digitization, reorganization, and more?
The world has changed. This is why? Smartsheet transforms your work.
Digital project managers play a key role in shaping the future work environment
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