In line with understanding your productivity and setting a timetable for yourself, it is helpful to try and manage yourself as an employee. Certain levels of pressure can fuel productivity and who better to be answerable to than yourself. If there are no strict deadlines to begin with, break your job down to individual tasks or goals and set a timeline to achieve each of them. Being a leading consultancy in the education sector, we often find it fascinating how task management skills instilled at a younger age can lead to a world of difference when they grow up to become productive (or unproductive) professionals. However, it is never too late. Quite a few candidates we interacted with told us how they took on a lot of pressure without delivering on it but a few of the right suggestions put them on the express track of productivity.

Handling two more tasks simultaneously is often conceived as an important and enviable skill to have. In reality, multitasking does not enhance efficiency but in turn might work towards reducing it. You may think you are knocking down your to-do list at impressive speeds but you are actually not doing any of them properly. Be it mundane, everyday tasks or high-concentration activities, our efficiency rate improves substantially if we are focusing on the job at hand.

With expanding cities, never-ending traffic jams, and overall longer commutes – it often feels like a considerable amount of time is lost coming to and leaving from work. So why waste it? Set aside a few tasks that are possible to do on your commute. This is not binding but just a suggestion to optimize your time. You could use your travel time to respond to emails, carry out some research, or do some brainstorming to refresh you for work.

Now we do not mean that one should not aim for perfection in their work. However, it is essential to understand that if we put our best into the task at hand, that is the most realistic form of perfection one can attain. Instead of misallocating time in order to create the ‘perfect’ output, do the best you can, and if at all you feel dissatisfied, you can come back to improve on it once you have sorted out other work as well.

To enhance your productivity, you should give yourself windows to work in. While you set deadlines for yourself and take appropriate breaks, it is imperative you are focused when you are actually working. To whatever extent you can, keep distractions at bay. A small interruption can cause you to restart and renew your approach. Understand the possible distractions you might face and work smartly towards minimizing them. These were a few helpful ways one can improve productivity at work. It is important to introspect as well as study your work atmosphere to understand how these pieces of advice will work perfectly for you. After all, it is all about working smart and not working hard in order to attain your personal, professional, and organizational goals. If you are looking to enhance your workforce with dynamic professionals or are looking for the right organisation to boost your career trajectory, we at NKC work to provide human resource solutions, serving as one of the leading fashion recruitment agencies as well as education recruitment agencies.