Know your work style and produce more and better

Bookstores are full of books on how to better manage your time. Even so, people are still dissatisfied: the techniques do not help and the work continues at a far from ideal pace. Business coach and author of the book “Working Simply” Carson Tate claims that we all make a major mistake. Before implementing the tips on time management, it is essential that you determine your type of productivity, that is, what your work style is.

O awesome.club suggests that you check out the description you most identify with. How do you observe and define your own traits? What kind of thing annoys you? What methods have you bypassed before? Which ones were not helpful in your case? Answer these questions and learn new ways to increase your productivity and manage your time.

People with this profile have a mentality logic, realistic and critical. It’s easy for them to focus and value their time. As you can imagine, they are strong when it comes to prioritize. The place of work in the lives of people like that is minimalist. They have laconic and even dry speeches. In their professional emails, these people often forget to greet and say goodbye, as they are only interested in concrete information.

The “prioritisers” can easily handle complex tasks in the shortest possible time, but a job that is “floating in the air” without being implemented, as if saying “something is missing in this project”, leaves these people in a dead end.

“Prioritizers” feel cornered by:

Inaccuracy or lack of information. Generalizations and abstract sentences. Fuzzy deadlines and tasks.

What helps this profile to be more productive:

Simple but effective office accessories, such as notepads with tear-off sheets to quickly pass a note to someone, or stickers like sticky notes to immediately register a sudden idea. Apps that allow you to monitor daily tasks and long-term goals (eg 42Goals, Wunderlist), timers, and exact deadline-related programming techniques (Moosti). A list with concrete tasks and deadlines.

Consistency, organization and attention to detail are among the main qualities of planners. In this, they resemble prioritizers. But planners make detailed plans and charts, manage to dedicate themselves to a certain task with the sole aim of getting rid of it soon. They always read the footnotes at the bottom of the pages, check errata and identify deficiencies.

In the planner’s workplace there is nothing left over, each thing has a function. People like this have difficulty providing complete information and, in an attempt to do so, use long and complex sentences.

Planners feel trapped by:

Failure to meet deadlines, delays. Lack of a clear algorithm of actions. Texts with residual information, errors and the like. Unfinished work, bad plans, cancellation of tasks.

What helps this profile to be more productive:

Folders, file furniture, stickers, markers, organizers and catalogues. Applications and programs that allow structuring information, controlling time and changes at work (Toodledo, HabitForge, Objectiveli). Pre-established routes, detailed to-do lists, ability to define details that don’t require a lot of dedication.

Organizers are people active and emotional🇧🇷 Are very sociable, they like to tell stories and have a rich and lively language. People like this are owners of great intuition, talent for persuasion and can subtly identify the needs of their customers.

They solve problems as they arise, rely heavily on intuition and do not make detailed analyzes of facts. They work well both in a team and alone, but they consider communication with others very important. In an organizer’s workplace you will find photos, souvenirs and decorations.

Organizers feel cornered by:

Dry information, texts with a lot of footnotes and numbers. Monotonous work. Lack of communication or feedback. Judgments about other people. Lack of support or recognition.

What helps this profile to be more productive:

Things that please the eyes and hands, such as beautiful diaries made of quality paper, pens and text markers, original speakers and mice. Apps and programs that allow video calls (Skype, WhatsApp). Applications that help you focus, synchronize and not lose information, as well as share it with others (focus@will, stickK, Redbooth).

Viewers have the habit of think outside the box”🇧🇷 Solve complex problems with ease and multitask. The workplace for people like that is utterly chaotic. On the other hand, they are erudite and love to learn.

Intuition and spontaneity are typical characteristics of viewers, who tend to be among the “pioneers” in several areas. They are profiles that notice what is not obvious, combining what seems incompatible. They can run away from schedules or get distracted when working on a project, moving on to another whose idea suddenly came to them.

Viewers feel cornered by:

Monotony and routine. Fixed rules and conditions. Conservatism and closed tasks. The likelihood of getting lost in the chaos of their own making.

What helps this profile to be more productive:

Large notebooks with unlined pages, colored pens, blackboards and cork boards to keep everything in sight, without missing anything. Applications and programs that can count on a considerable flow of ideas, with the possibility of joining images, graphics, photos and the creation of mental maps; another idea is to bet on simple tools that avoid distractions (Lifetick, ZenPen). Prioritize and train attention.

Try to understand what distracts you the most from work and, on the other hand, what helps you to concentrate. Don’t rely on the success of time-management and productivity-enhancing techniques if they don’t suit your natural profile.

And it’s normal to have identified with various descriptions at the same time. Your type of productivity might be mixed🇧🇷 Use different tools that suit you, combining them. So you’ll find the perfect balance between work and play.

Share your results and your opinions in the comments area. Which of the descriptions do you most identify with?