If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. ~ David Allen

Where Your Most Productive Work Happened?

Highly Productive People

Many times I ask myself where are the places of my most productive work. Why that places allow me to be more productive?

Are we most productive at our workplaces?

When I think about the situations when I worked for larger organization what comes to my mind is:

  • While I am working on something, I receive email with the subject urgent from the manager as something important for them.
  • While I am working on something, I receive a phone call from my manager to go in their office to talk about something important for them.
  • While I am working on something in the office, one of my colleagues needed help from me about something important for him.
  • When I sit down to continue with my work, its time for the scheduled meeting.
  • While I am working on something in the office, again there is something important for someone else that I will need to do.

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How to Hold More Productive Meeting?

Meetings

If you are a business person, an entrepreneur or manager, you are the one who spend large part of your working week on the meetings.

Probably, you know how meetings can be seen as unproductive, boring and useless sometimes for you. However, you need them. Your work depends on them.

You hold meetings with customer, employees and business partners. You can’t escape them, but you can ensure that meetings run smoothly achieving their purpose without spending too much time on them.

I want to list some recommendation that will help you to hold really productive meetings.

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