Boosting Your Team's Productivity
39mGeneral2018-04-02
Authors

Lisa Bodell
CEO of futurethink
Course details
Many managers unknowingly make things overly complex for their teams-and this can be a drain on productivity. In this course, coach Lisa Bodell shows how to boost productivity by letting go of complexity and adopting simplicity.
Lisa begins with a quick diagnostic exercise to identify areas of complexity in your workday. Next, she explains how to get simplification started, like auditing how your team spends time and pinpointing redundancies and time-wasting activities. Finally, Lisa provides actionable steps for simplifying everyday work like email, meetings, business processes, decision-making, and more.
Learning objectives
Identifying unnecessary complexity
Auditing your workday
Establishing productive habits
Simplifying emails and meetings
Streamlining decision-making
Lisa begins with a quick diagnostic exercise to identify areas of complexity in your workday. Next, she explains how to get simplification started, like auditing how your team spends time and pinpointing redundancies and time-wasting activities. Finally, Lisa provides actionable steps for simplifying everyday work like email, meetings, business processes, decision-making, and more.
Learning objectives
Identifying unnecessary complexity
Auditing your workday
Establishing productive habits
Simplifying emails and meetings
Streamlining decision-making
Skills covered
Time ManagementProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Understanding Complexity
- 02 - Are you creating complexity
2. Getting Simplification Started
- 03 - The simplification test
- 04 - Audit your workday
- 05 - The EOS test
- 06 - Establish productive habits
- 07 - Measure simplification results
- 08 - 10 questions for better simplifying
3. Everyday Simplification Habits
- 09 - Simplify your email habits
- 10 - Spend less time in meetings
- 11 - Simplify everyday processes
- 12 - Simplify your communication
- 13 - Simplify decision making
- 14 - Kill stupid rules
- 15 - Favorite tips for simplifying
Conclusion
- 16 - Next steps
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