Why multi-tasking is actually hurting your productivity...
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Ouch! For as long as I can remember, I've prided myself on being a professional multi-tasker, gaining pure satisfaction from how many boxes I could check off at the end of the day (and I know I'm not the only one). Yet no matter how many tasks I winded up touching in a week, I often found that I was still not completing my priorities and hitting all of my deadlines. My productivity was tanking!
It wasn't until our team began reading Peak Performance that I realized that the thing I was proudly wearing as a badge was my biggest hinderance to my productivity. According to Stuhlberg, "Studies show that multi-tasking can cannibalize as much as 40% of someone's productive time." But why? Because our brains don't work like computers do - they can't process more than one thing at a time with a high level of quality. So instead of getting twice as much done with multi-tasking, we're actually only getting about half as much done.
So here's a couple of tips that our team has been putting into practice this week:
- Define concrete objectives for your working session
- Get rid of distractions (that's right... put your phone and slack on silent)
- Focus and concentrate deeply on one task at a time
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