Where does your company lose the most productivity?

Business Meetings 

These results provide us with some perspective on how office workers are working in a state of confusion, either self imposed or from there business culture.  We have long known that many company meetings are sink-holes for productivity. This survey shows us that 36.54% of you view meetings are ineffective and/or have no clear purpose.

For entertainment purposes, here is a FedEx Kinko’s commercial that highlights the comedic aspect of some business meetings.

We also seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time in one of the most huge time wasters… email!  Survey takers say that 33.30% of them waste time on email.  (This is my biggest time-sink.)  A long-term study indicates that workers are not as productive as they were five years ago, in part because of e-mail.

In its White-Collar Productivity Index (WPI), a five-year study of more than 1,000 users, IBT-USA found that e-mail is not as effective as a productivity tool as it’s cracked up to be. The WPI shows that the time spent handling e-mail has skyrocketed, from about four hours per week to 8.8 hours per week during the study period. And time spent handling paper mail has not dropped proportionally–it decreased from two hours per week in 2000 to 1.3 hours in 2004. But the downturn in productivity is not just an IT problem; time spent attending ineffective meetings has risen from 0.7 hours per week in 2000 to 2.1 hours per week in 2004.

Internet Usage

This number surprised me the most, 6.67%.  I was surprised to see that many of you view your Internet usage as a minor distraction.  Management might disagree with these results.  Maybe because many companies have instituted programs to monitor and curtail Internet usage.  This time-waster issue deserves more research.

Conclusions

Understanding where we waste time is essential in understanding and taking advantage of ways to improve our effectiveness and productivity.  Life is naturally confusing.  Learn from where you waste time, and improve upon those ineffective segments of your life.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.” — Jim Rohn

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream — Vincent van Gogh

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. — Thomas Edison

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. — Tom Peters

You always admire what you really don’t understand. — Balaise Pascal

 One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. — Chinese Proverb

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. — Jane Haddam

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck

“Who you become in the future will be a function of the books you read and the people you meet.” – Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

If you read 15 minutes a day you will read a book a month. That will put you in the top 1% of business people in the developed world.

The Book you don’t read won’t help you!

Make it a goal to build a great library and leave it as a legacy

What Business Coaching Will Do For You

Lengthen Your Stride! (LYS) and Bryant Nielson, will work with you to help you achieve more than you ever thought possible from your business and from your life.  Bryant Nielson, a LYS Coach,  will work closely with you to help you have:

• Absolutely Clairty: On What You Want from Life
• Absolutely Clairty: On What You Want from Your Business
• Absolutely Clairty: On How You Can Get There

You will achieve this by applying:

The 3 A’s of Achievement:

• Affirmation We will encourage and support you
• Action Plan We will help you develop an action plan
• Accountability We will help you to achieve that plan

To

The 3 P’s of Potential:

• Person We work with you to help you become successful in all aspects of your life
• Product We help you to develop effective Sales, Marketing and Distribution Strategies
• Process We help you to develop and implement systems to free up your time

The Benefits are:

1. Less time fire-fighting and more time taking the business forward
2. Systems in place that free you up from the business
3. More time focused on strategies to increase the profitability of the business
4. A clarity of purpose to make the business fun to run

My goal is to help you get clear directions for business and get more out of life.

There are many reasons why people start their own businesses:

However, our research shows that there are 3 main results that you, the business-owner want:

1. A larger income stream and the free time to enjoy it;
2. A saleable asset that will allow you to retire in comfort;
3. A business that runs profitably without you having to turn up every day

Are you seeking one or more of the above?

If not, let Bryant Nielson, Professional Coach and National Sales Trainer show you TODAY how to get clear directions for your business so that you get more out of life.