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What's Your Presence-to-Performance Ratio?

Change your daily mindset by focusing on the quality of work you're doing, not the quantity of time you put in at the office.


Did you know that most of today's companies still value presence over performance.  This means the amount of time employees spend in the office matters more than what they accomplish during that time.  Employees are expected to work long hours, regardless of whether or not it's warranted, which breeds the nasty habit of filling your time with non-critical activities, excessive socialization or office politics. 

How can you replace busyness with productivity?  Increase your presence-to-performance ratio.

Think of presence as the amount of time you're at work.  Think of performance as the amount of time you're actually working.  Here's an example:

Suppose Ben is on his laptop for 6 hours to create a PowerPoint presentation.  During those 6 hours he checks his personal email for 30 minutes, spends a cumulative 30 minutes on Facebook (a few minutes here and there add up), 15 minutes chatting with colleagues, and 45 minutes surfing various sites.  The rest of the time he works on his PowerPoint.  Add all that up, and his presence-to-performance ratio is 66%.  Of the 6 hours he was at work, he spent 4 hours working, meaning he was 3/2 engaged.  If his goal is to increase productivity, he should strive for total engagement.

You can increase your engaged time at work by:
-Keeping a Time Log of activities.  Log all your activities in a journal including how long you spend on each task.  Start your log when you are scheduled to start work, not when you actually start working. 
-Make a Checklist of Recoverable Time.  After you've recorded all your activities during the week, both productive and unproductive, compile the unproductive ones into a checklist.  The time you spent on those activities is time you can recover for more meaningful activities.  Make this list your "not to do" list and avoid these activities.

Source: www.workawesome.com