There are a lot of tips and tricks about personal productivity, but not much has been written about company productivity. These 10 productivity tactics will help you to get the job done on a team and company level.

1. Tips by Weekdone

2. “If you’re stretched and overloaded, you
can’t think strategically about your own
time let alone anyone else’s”
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Make time for work
that matters, so
your team can
follow your lead.
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3. “You never want a serious crisis to go to
waste. It provides the opportunity for us
to do things that you couldn't do before”
Rahm Emanuel - former Chief of Staff
A company with
dysfunctional habits won't
change simply because a
leader orders it. Make use
out of crisis to cultivate the
need for change and new
productive habits.
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4. People with goals achieve 10x as much
as people with no goals
Use Objectives and Key Results
to show what success looks like
(used by Google, LinkedIn etc.)
1. Define 3-5 key objectives.
2. Under each define 3-4
measurable results.
3. Set and monitor weekly plans
according to your objectives.
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5. Leads to quicker problem solving and
improved engagement.
Ask your team to share
and implement personal
productivity tips to
increase employee
buy-in and overall
efficiency.
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6. “The key to improving individual
productivity is to eliminate or delegate
unimportant tasks and replace them
with value-added ones”
Jordan Cohen - Productivity Coach
1. Describe the outcome you
want to achieve
2. Say how much time you
expect people to spend on a
particular task
3. Get out of the way and give
people permission to make
decisions
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7. Get real-time progress updates
Set and monitor goals
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8. Good decision principles help
managers to let go without losing
control and enable people make
everyday decisions in diverse settings.
Create a doctrine to empower decision
making across the organization.
1. Frame a mission statement that has a
shared purpose and explain how the purpose
will be fulfilled.
2. Transform your existing values into
decision principles.
3. Find real-world decisions and reverse
engineer the most effective principles.
4. Help people apply them to daily decisions.
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9. Save a lot of time and energy by
offering a reliable place where people
can easily find, edit and share all the
necessary information. (Google Docs,
Dropbox, Slack etc.)
86% of employees
cite lack of
collaboration for
workplace failures
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10. Multitasking makes people slower and
dumber. Productivity falls 40%.
1. Identify your high priority tasks
according to your OKRs
2. Break tasks down into chunks
and block out a time for each
3. Use a calendar or a tool to
visually block your time
4. Schedule breaks and turn off
all the distractions
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11. Evolutionary psychology has taught us
that human beings are hard-wired to
over-analyze the negatives.
1. Set yourself up for success.
Before a task, imagine possible
roadblocks and plan how you will
get over them.
2. Shift the focus from failure to
possibilities. After a setback, help
people identify the problems and
ask what they learned.
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12. Productivity is measured in terms of the
rate of output per unit of input.
1. Define key metrics: hours
worked, productivity per hour,
reports produced, priority
followed
2. Use an accountability
system/tool: scoreboard, time
tracking, progress reporting
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PILLAR

13. Get real-time progress updates
Set and monitor goals
Give feedback and more
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14. 7 PRODUCTIVITY
LIFEHACKS
10 INFOGRAPHICS
THAT MAKE YOU
MORE PRODUCTIVE
AT WORK
9 UNIQUE TRAITS OF
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
TEAMS
BE MORE PRODUCTIVE NOW
7 LIFEHACKS BY WEEKDONE
(that can be absorbed during a coffee break)
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