“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” Paul J. Meyer
As a rule, you don’t just stumble across productivity. Paul J. Meyer’s quote is a cogent observation of what it takes to increase productivity.
Print out that quote, frame it, and hang it prominently on your wall. Take it to heart—because Meyer certainly did. At a young age, he became keenly interested in personal achievement and goal-setting and made the above quote one of his formulas for success. By age 27, he was a millionaire—and that was back in 1955, when the term really meant something. By 1960, he was teaching other people his secrets, and many now consider him the founder of the Personal Development movement.
In your experience, what other elements contribute to team productivity? Attitude, planning, effort, and what else?
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Many team members and team leaders have not asked themselves this question or honestly answered it. Many know that their team has issues but do not know where to start in addressing them.
LMA’s new DIY Teamwork Analysis Tool is designed to assess your team’s current performance level and identify areas for improvement.
This informative teamwork analysis will only take you about 4 minutes to complete. Simply answer the questions and click submit, and you will immediately receive your insightful teamwork analysis report.
Please be assured that the answers you provide, and the subsequent report that is returned, will remain completely confidential to LMA.
“Individually we are one drop but together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
Effective teamwork is vital in order to reap the rewards of higher productivity, fewer internal struggles and a more enjoyable work experience.
Examples of the power of teamwork can be seen in nature with the migration of geese. As the seasons change large flocks of geese migrate by flying thousands of kilometres to their destination. These flocks contain hundreds of individual birds, each with limited capabilities to go the distance alone, however almost all of them make it to their destination.
How do they do it? The answer is simple: teamwork.
Scientists have identified that when geese fly in formation, each bird flapping its wings creates an uplift for the bird that follows. Together the whole flock can fly over 70 percent further than if they fly alone. This phenomenon can be considered an example of synergy, a concept closely related to teamwork. Simply put, synergy is the cooperation of more people or elements working together to produce a combined result that is greater than the sum of the results achieved separately. The word synergy is derived from the Greek “synergos” meaning “working together”.
When people harness the power of effective teamwork and synergy within their own work teams, they too achieve substantially improved individual and team performance, higher output, greater personal satisfaction, less stress, and a safer workplace.
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle.
Every day you operate on a framework of habits that are either helping you or holding you back. It’s natural human behaviour; habit allows you to spend less time and energy on regular tasks so you can divert more energy to learning new tasks, absorbing new information, problem solving and a host of other demands life throws your way.
It’s great news if your habits support you in achieving what you set out to and terrible news if your habits are out of step with your life or holding back from what might be achievable.
If you are not getting the desired end result, perhaps there is a shift you can make in the way you are thinking or acting?
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One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving success in your life is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you.
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Unlike conventional training courses, Leadership Management Australia’s unique development process brings permanent and positive change in attitudes and behaviours, resulting in increased performance and productivity for the individual, and improved profitability for their organisation.
Working as an effective team can assist team members in developing their job skills, achieving greater success at work, enjoying increased recognition, gaining leadership experience and positioning themselves for advancement and promotion.
LMA’s free eBook Understanding Teamwork is a team development resource to help managers, leaders and team members develop their team by assisting them to:
Define effective teamwork
Understand the benefits of effective teamwork
See examples of effective teamwork in nature
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“I recommend you take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves…” Lord Chesterfield
Time management can have a powerful influence on success in the workplace. Equipping your people with a wide range of time management skills can determine the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness through which your organisation achieves success.
Leadership Management Australasia (LMA) has a number of courses that develop time management skills and best practice for increased productivity. We teach you how to manage competing priorities to gain more control of your time at work and in your personal life.
LMA’s time management courses and productivity courses are suitable for anyone who wants to learn how to better manage their time and the time of their people for greater efficiency and productivity.
Regardless of whether you need to improve your own time management skills and productivity or the time management skills and productivity of the people you lead, LMA has a course to suit your needs. To discuss which course is most appropriate to your current needs, please contact LMA.
Read the latest findings on diversity, from Australasia’s leading workplace survey.
There are clear signs in the latest Leadership, Employment and Direction (L.E.A.D.) Survey results that organisations are slowly awakening to the positive benefits available through a diverse workforce.
Looking at how leaders, managers and non-managerial employees view diversity, it seems light is dawning and this previously often ‘hidden’ resource is beginning to be leveraged – or at least the potential is becoming more apparent.
Download the free whitepaper ‘The importance of diversity in the workplace’ in order to:
Learn more about the current opinions on diversity, held by leaders, managers and employees throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Discover what the current level of diversity and the attitude towards diversity in the workplace mean for leaders and managers.
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“People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes” – William James
Unlike conventional training courses, Leadership Management Australia’s unique development process brings permanent and positive change in attitudes and behaviours, resulting in increased performance and productivity for the individual, and improved profitability for their organisation.
We achieve this through our three core unique development process fundamentals:
We develop the ‘total person’ in all facets of their personal and professional life
Our step-by-step blended learning and development process incorporates best practice learning techniques and methodologies
Embedded into our process are nine key adult learning development principles.
