Be Resourceful
Recommitting, work gyms, and the effects of poor leadership.
Welcome to another edition of ProductiveGrowth 🌱, weekly stories about productivity, leadership, motivation, and anything else that helps us and our teams grow and be more productive. Plus: industry news on the companies, products, and services that allow us to work less and do more.
The takeaway
It’s good to have you back! Do you find yourself struggling to be efficient while working from home? Work gyms are here to boost your productivity; you can sharpen your leadership skills to help your teams meet results; and find ways to be happy while being successful. Plus: Daybridge raises £750K.
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EDITOR’S PICK
🤷♀️ When good performers miss a deadline... Recommit.
There are bad performers, but also, there are outstanding employees who happen to have bad weeks. Having a conversation, recommitting on a deadline, redistributing the work, offering help, and sending a summary email are ways to help sort this issue out!
💁 Work Gyms, open during quarantine!
Ever heard of working under pressure… peer pressure? Ultraworking’s “Work Gym” allows you to connect with different people all over the world, via Zoom, to serve as ‘accountability partners’ to spur productivity. Meaning, they will snoop on your Instagram feed if you get distracted at work.
🐦 Poor leadership drives poor results
It’s not them, it’s you. “All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting”, which means the results you’re not achieving are a representation of the design and leadership you’ve put into it. It’s not a lack of productivity, it’s bad leadership.
💸 Money and happiness walk different roads.
But they don’t have to… Success comes with a lot of collateral stress and anxiety. Achieving one’s dreams sounds delightful, but it’s not always fun. However, it’s not impossible. After coaching hundreds of successful and wealthy people, Leo Widrich shares a list of how to achieve happiness in the way.
Discover
Imagine your glasses could not only improve your vision but your productivity… now stop imagining and start reading! Because that’s exactly what the Auctify Specs do, monitor your activity so you can see where those four hours scrolling down your phone went.
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Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. - David Allen
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Are you using the resources available to move you closer to your goals?
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IN THE KNOW
Industry news on the companies, products, and services that allow us to work less and do more.
Sales, IPOs, Bankruptcies, Funding and Industry Gossip
Organizational management platform ChartHop secures $14 Million.
Daybridge, a time management app by former Monzo engineer Kieran McHugh, raises £750K seed.
Workforce management startup Legion raises $22 million.
Releases
Microsoft Teams gets a useful new Lists app to keep track of your progress online.
Zoom releases a bunch of new accessibility features to make their app more inclusive.
Jobs
Aha! - US or Canada - Customer Success Manager
Slack - US, remote - Sr. Manager, Customer Experience Operations
Peak - London, England - QA Lead (Mobile)
Events
October 5 (virtual) - Passionate Product Leadership by Jeff Patton
October 8 (virtual) - Leading Product Teams Masterclass by TechAlliance
October 14 (virtual) - MIT Sloan: Leadership in the Time of Crisis
October 14 (virtual) - No limits: Elevate by Monday online conference 2020
October 17 (virtual) - The Real Skills Conference
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Edited by: Lauren Maslen.
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