Productivity During the Holiday Season

Yesterday I was interviewed by Gerry Dick for the Inside Indiana Business Television show. We talked about how to increase (or maintain) productivity during the busy holiday season.

We talked about three ways to increase productivity during this challenging time of the year:

1. Acknowledge the challenge yourself. As a leader let others know that you are distracted by the parties, activities and extra tasks that come with the holiday season. Letting others know that you know it is a challenge is helpful to them. And if you have some ideas to help them, rather than feeling like they are alone, they will feel supported - and most likely become more focused!

2. Share the spirit. Let the spirit of the season spill over to interactions with other staff members and Customers. Smile more, say thank you a little more joyfully and more.

3. Amp up January. Give people something exciting to anticipate early in the New Year. Whether it is a new project or challenge or whatever - giving people something to look forward to and anticipate is a powerful thing!

Hopefully these three tips are useful to you. I wrote on them more fully in an article last year. You can read that here.

If you want to see stations and show times for the Interview, click here.

Once the interview is posted to the web, I'll post an update.

Also posted in Leadership and Teamwork.

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