| It sounds counter intuitive right? but when we take time to pause from our work it gives us time to think. Why is it that we equate long hours with greater effort well in this industry that’s how it seems to be, but there are other ways of ‘skinning the same cat.’ It doesn't necessarily have to be time for money hard grind day after day week after week. I'm not going give you the solutions to that problem, that's for you to decide, but to get to the point where freed up to come up with the ideas to have the creativity that's what I'm going help you with today. |  |
It used to be called working on the business rather than in the business. Today it's a little more sophisticated than that it's about using your time wisely it's about leveraging your knowledge it's about investing in things that will pay you back over the long term.
Creating space for yourself to really think is one of the most critical business practices I think we are missing out on. Finding time monthly, as a minimum, would be my recommendation so that you have time out to reflect and review.
This thinking time has been shown to produce better results improve productivity and help with creativity. Perpetual Guardian the legal services company in NZ made headlines across the world - in fact 78 countries ran the story to be exact, when it decided to trial a four-day working week.
It was a raging success! Productivity went up profitability, went up there were a number of other metrics which proved that the idea worked.
Technology that we thought would give us better work life balance has instead robbed us of boundaries and ground our work down into a fine powder that settles on all areas of our life it works both ways we check social media or do our online banking while we're at work just as we check our work emails when we're at home. The grind never stops so how can we be sure that we are being as creative and as efficient as we possibly can when we with our clients?
The solution according to one Silicon Valley expert is to work shorter more focused hours and balance that with more serious leisure time. There are other progressive companies out there who are shortening the working day or week and reaping the surprising rewards of increased profitability and productivity! At a time when many of us are working in many different ways from normal, this idea seems incredibly prescient.
As locked down slowly lifts, for now, and workplaces start to reopen finding a balance between work, rest and play that promotes productivity growth alongside employee wellbeing feels like a no brainer the same applies to self-employed across all industries.
Surely this is our window of opportunity to explore the new normal and what that could look like.
Some of the agility the businesses have created through adapting themselves lock down is really what all business is should be looking at all of the time building in a level of resilience that allows them to keep trading regardless of the environment in which they operate. this naturally leads to looking at other income streams and leveraging some of that intellectual property in our businesses so that we can find the balance to take time out to keep reflecting and to keep improving good luck and enjoy your time out.
Creating space for yourself to really think is one of the most critical business practices I think we are missing out on. Finding time monthly, as a minimum, would be my recommendation so that you have time out to reflect and review.
This thinking time has been shown to produce better results improve productivity and help with creativity. Perpetual Guardian the legal services company in NZ made headlines across the world - in fact 78 countries ran the story to be exact, when it decided to trial a four-day working week.
It was a raging success! Productivity went up profitability, went up there were a number of other metrics which proved that the idea worked.
Technology that we thought would give us better work life balance has instead robbed us of boundaries and ground our work down into a fine powder that settles on all areas of our life it works both ways we check social media or do our online banking while we're at work just as we check our work emails when we're at home. The grind never stops so how can we be sure that we are being as creative and as efficient as we possibly can when we with our clients?
The solution according to one Silicon Valley expert is to work shorter more focused hours and balance that with more serious leisure time. There are other progressive companies out there who are shortening the working day or week and reaping the surprising rewards of increased profitability and productivity! At a time when many of us are working in many different ways from normal, this idea seems incredibly prescient.
As locked down slowly lifts, for now, and workplaces start to reopen finding a balance between work, rest and play that promotes productivity growth alongside employee wellbeing feels like a no brainer the same applies to self-employed across all industries.
Surely this is our window of opportunity to explore the new normal and what that could look like.
Some of the agility the businesses have created through adapting themselves lock down is really what all business is should be looking at all of the time building in a level of resilience that allows them to keep trading regardless of the environment in which they operate. this naturally leads to looking at other income streams and leveraging some of that intellectual property in our businesses so that we can find the balance to take time out to keep reflecting and to keep improving good luck and enjoy your time out.
