Focus day

Choose a day on the week and block 3-4 hours of focus time: turn your phone off, stay away from your emails, and focus on just one or two high-value activities that will make the most difference in your company.
Encourage your employees to do the same.

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3 Ways You're Getting in the Way of Your Employees' Productivity (and How to Stop)

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Here Are 6 Ways to Start Your Week Off On the Right Foot

As a leadership coach, one of the main things I work on with leaders is their productivity. This is a common problem in many organizations, especially with high-growth companies. The rapid growth of the business and pace of change leave many executives struggling to stay organized and focused, which results in lackluster personal results.

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Focus on value

The key to any productivity system is to focus on value, not effort.

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Do a mind sweep

This process walks through a list of prompts in different categories, looking for things you're trying to remember and commitments you've made and gets them out onto paper.

It will help you clear your thoughts and get the distractions out of your head.

Review the week to come

Take the time to review the coming week's schedule and organize it into large chunks of time, with tasks grouped by importance and urgency.

It will make it easier to manage your work.

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Delegation Is an Art. Here Are 9 Simple Ways to Do It Better

It is a sign of greatness when a leader has the ability to enable their employees to get things done. One research study showed that 53 percent of business owners believe that they can grow their business by more than 20 percent if they only delegate 10 percent of their workload to someone else.

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Steps to an effective delegation

Always provide feedback.
Be sure to keep an eye on things.
Be clear about what you want your employees to do.
Delegate the right things.

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4 Key Ways to Create a Culture of Learning

7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. During the last recession, companies that were best at engaging their employees, in part by providing the training they needed to move forward in their careers, enjoyed profit gains of 26 percent, compared to losses of 14 percent at companies that were worst at engagement.

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Benefits of a learning culture

During the last recession, companies that invested in their employees, in part by providing the training they needed to move forward in their careers, enjoyed profit gains of 26 percent, compared t...

When hiring, screen for learners

Ask about passion projects. Learners tend to pursue something else outside work (training for a marathon, playing with a band, etc.)
Focus on curiosity as much as hard skills. Bring up problems currently facing the team and see how the candidate responds.
One of the most important things to a learning mindset is the ability to admit you don't know something. So be aware of how they approach the things they don't understand.

Learning as a company policy

This means explicitly defining ongoing learning as a core company value.

Empowering employees can mean providing the time or money to enable learning - in other words, offering learning opportunities as a job benefit like health insurance.

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