8 Steps to Reestablishing Your Personal Productivity at Work is for all professionals who feel that they need to re-connect with their workplace and become more productive, but are struggling on how to do it. www.mindfulprogression.co.uk 8 Steps to Reestablishing Your Personal Productivity at Work is exactly that. 8 straight forward steps that help you get back to productive work and feeling like you are making a impact on your personal performance and your organisation.

1. 8 STEPS
to Re-establishing
Personal Productivity
at Work

2. Work can sometimes become a little stale and it can
affect your personal productivity.
When you are not challenged or engaged, or
struggle to find similarities between what your
organisation does and what you want to achieve,
our personal productivity can decline.
This feeling can leave us feeling detached from
our work and probably disliking it.

3. The good news is you can
do something about it.
Is starts with
YOU

4. Here's how YOU can regain your personal
productivity at work.
u Establish the things you enjoy about your role.
u Establish the things you want to improve in your role.
u What are the priorities of your organisation and how can you support
them to achieve it?
u What are the areas for development you need personally?
u Have an open conversation with the person that can make
something happen for you and you trust.

5. What do you need
to BE to be success?
Set achievable goals and actions.
Reflect and re-define your actions, goals and areas
of development.
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6. This process
is an action orientated
(you need to be proactive
to in order for
it to be successful)
process that requires
effort on your behalf.

7. If you have the intention of staying
in your current position
or you are considering setting yourself
up for a promotion, this process will
KICK START
your actions
so you can be the first inline
for that promotion.

8. Things I enjoy about my job
u Create a list of the things you like most and
enjoy most about your job and role.
u Think why you took the job in first place and
what interests you about the organisation.
u If this is difficult to think of this consider what
benefits your company brings to it customers
and how it benefit them.
u Read the list over and whittle it down to two or
three main reasons.
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9. Things I need to improve
There are likely to be areas of your focus and
performance that need active attention in
order to improve the your productivity.
These are likely to be one of two areas or
both: your behaviour and attitude towards
your role and organisation and/or skills that
you need to improve that allow you to
complete the job better and more efficiently.
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10. My workplace priorities
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At any point in time companies and organisations all have
multiple and competing priorities that can cause confusion
and stress among your colleagues.
Positioning yourself as a helpful and supportive person willing
to support others on the delivery of important tasks and
assignments can be good for your levels of engagement.

11. JUST MAKE SURE
YOUR OWN
WORK AND COMMITMENTS
ARE COMPLETE FIRST!

12. My workplace priorities
Be certain to ask the following before taking on any large projects or tasks
you undertake:
u What does success look like?
u Who's in charge and who will I report to?
u Who am I working with?
u How much autonomy do I have?
u How long will the task take?
The last thing you want to do is get lumbered with a dead-end assignment
that compounds your feelings and thoughts about your workplace and job.

13. REMEMBER:
The aim is to be supportive
in helping the organisation
and team meet their priorities,
not a dumping magnet.

14. You will most likely be able to find out what
the organisation's priorities are from:
u Senior managers
u Team leaders
u Department managers
u Directors.

15. Create a full list of the list of priorities
map out your
skills..
..and abilities
against the
projects.

16. You now have an opportunity to sell yourself
on the skills and abilities you used
and this could be useful to the project or task.
During the project or after
don't forget to update your CV
with any new skills.

17. Personal development needs
1. What professional development
would you need in order to do your
job better?
2. What training would keep you up to
date on changes in your industry?
These are questions that you need to
ask yourself every so often.
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18. FROM MY EXPERIENCE
I FEEL MORE DISCONNECTED
FROM MY JOB WHEN I'M NOT
LEARNING SOMETHING NEW
ABOUT MY INDUSTRY.

19. Personal development needs
u Write a list of the training that you think would beneficial to your role
and job.
u Next to it write a brief description on how it would benefit your day to
day work.
u The reason I ask you to write this reasoning is so you can rationalise
the training to yourself and then your superiors.
u Professional development can be expensive so your managers will
want to know that it will be useful and contribute to your
organisation.
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20. Open conversation with a trusted and supportive
person who can make things happen
This part requires some skill and prior
thought before having a conversation with
your trusted and supportive person.
The aim of this conversation is to gain
agreement from your supportive individual
and to help you gained the necessary
benefits from taking on the project.
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21. This person could be
THE ONE WHO GAVE
YOU THE PROJECT
or it could a trusted colleague
that has your best intentions at heart.

22. Open conversation with a trusted and supportive
person who can make things happen
u Briefly explain why you have decided to improve personal productivity.
u Describe the things you want to improve on and how you plan to do
this through helping the organisation achieve it priorities.
u Ask for their support and if there is anything else you should be
considering.
u Ask them if they are happy for you to ask for advice on aspects of the
project when needed.
Thank them for their support.

23. If you are in a situation where you don't have anyone you trust
that is supportive you may want to consider one of two things:
1. Begin building a network of people that support you in your
journey to improve your personal productivity. This takes
time but can be another way of developing new
engagement at work.
2. Ask the next best person you trust and who is supportive.
This person may not hold the power to make things
happened but can be a useful ally on your journey. Ask the
same questions as above and use them to keep you on task.

24. I am...
u You now need to consider what YOU need to BE in order to succeed
in improving your personal productivity at work.
u What are you going to do to develop the appropriate skills and
abilities?
u Here you are going to measure the gap between where you currently
are and where you want to be.
u You will then develop some understanding of how to go about doing
this through consideration of what this looks like to you?
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25. I am...
u Review your goals and write the 3 goals that will have most impact in
a single column.
u In another column write 3 desired actions that you don't have that
would help you to be successful.
u In the third column write where you are against the desired qualities.
u Now in the fourth and last column write down some words and
actions that will help you bridge the gap between desired actions and
your actual qualities.
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26. You’re nearly there!
Now you are setting yourself some clear goals that you can stick to over
the coming weeks. There is research to suggest it takes between 21 days
and 66 days to form sustainable change (​James Clear, 2014​). So when
creating your plan, think between 21 day and 66 days for making an
impact on your personal productivity at work.
Setting Achievable Goals
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Your goal is to get all 6 steps compete within 21 - 66 days.

27. Plan when your going to complete
these steps and stick to them.
Tell someone
(someone who can hold you to account)
you starting the process
and you plan to get this done
in the stated amount of time.

28. Continuing the personal productivity cycle
u During my experience of trying to improve my
personal productivity it became apparent that
this was an ongoing process and it needed to be
part of the way I worked.
u So once you have gone through the entire
process ensure that you re-evaluate your
achievements and perform the process again.
u To continue to be productive and engaged I
would recommend you perform this process at
least once every6 months.
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29. This process is an
active and
dynamic process,
meaning you will
only get out of this
process what you
put in.