Increase Your Project Productivity
While increasing productivity is every self-employed person’s obvious goal, how to do this is not necessarily something everyone intuitively knows. Better, faster, more, is the theme song when you have your own business but getting there can be challenging. Here are some ideas on how to increase your project productivity.
1. Do a mock-up of the project so you can get a better idea of what will be involved and what areas you’ll need to shore up or expand.
2. Create templates that can be used for each step. This is important because you’ll have a recorded starting point for each step without having to recreate them each time from scratch. Plus you have something you can give to others when the time comes for training and implementing.
3. Look for shortcuts. While keeping in mind your final goal, your desired outcome, is there a way to get there more efficiently?
4. Fine tune and polish. Like a diamond needs some work before it’s ready for market, your project productivity needs to be fine-tuned before it’s producing like you want.
5. Do only the parts you are good at and you feel you absolutely need to have control of and give the rest to the people who can do them better and faster than you. It’s about speed and quality, not your ego.
6. Keep track of each part on a timeline and inspect the areas that were more time-consuming than they should have been.
7. See the project through all the way to completion in order to evaluate the big picture.
8. Revisit the project and pick it apart. Ask yourself, “Is there totally another way to do this and arrive at the final goal?” It could be the path should be totally different, and a lot easier, with amazing results. Don’t get in your own way because the process was “your” idea. Always keep the desired results in mind.
9. Consider what you can now automate, cost-effectively, to make this project smoother and faster next time. Also consider the effectiveness of people working on the project and if they were given the best tasks for them. Hindsight might be 20/20, but you can use this important information next time.
10. Never stop tweaking and refining. Sometimes you’ll have to backpedal when you try something different and it does not work. That’s to be expected, but being aware and taking concerted steps forward will help you increase your project productivity.
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