24 Productivity Hacks To Improve Business Performance and Profits
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21st Century approach to improving business productivity, profits and performance in the modern business. The book highlights the links between performance science and profitability and the massive gains that can be achieved by understanding and implementing the latest findings from neuroscience and the psychological sciences. Invaluable for leaders, owners and managers who are looking to improve.
24 Productivity Hacks are highlighted within 6 major categories, neuroscience, performance science, cognitive behavioural science, sporting science, behavioural science and performance synchrony. They range from mindset, how to perform under pressure, skill acquisition, learning and development, emotional control, organisational behaviour, motivation, employee engagement, purpose, mastery, brain-savvy leadership and many more.
All the hacks are underpinned by research, evidence, case study, observation, experience, anecdotal, empirical and the latest findings. The book then goes on to provide the missing link between the theory and the application into the business. It will demonstrate how each hack will filter to your bottom line, often for no extra investment or resource on your part.
Modern business needs to get ready for the 4th industrial revolution which has started and needs a change in emphasis from predict and control leadership to one of a more sense and respond. Markets, customers, global factors and our workforces are changing and our businesses need to follow.
Organisations ultimately have to follow human consciousness and human consciousness is changing at a faster pace than it ever has. Organisational culture, internal mechanisms, leadership, employees and measurement need to change to align with their markets. Performance Synchrony is a 4 quadrant approach to addressing these changes.
Geoff Greenwood FCCA MBA MSc has worked extensively in the world of performance and has studied many areas and examples of performance enhancement in elite sport, performing arts, global business, military, medical and other high pressure environments.
Geoff Greenwood
Geoff Greenwood is an executive and business coach and business consultant specialising in the exceptional performance of human potential using the latest performance psychology, science, research, technology and online business marketing strategies. The approach is by taking what works in other performance related fields and applying them to business, management and leadership. It helps companies and individuals to seek and sustain competitive advantage in their marketplace. He offers performance training, coaching, consulting, development, workshops and online performance packages on-site or remote.
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Preface
Today is an amazing day for me, it will show how sport and business are siblings. The happiness of shared victory and the sadness of the end of an incredible journey. Steve doesn’t need me now, he knows the strategies, applications, tactics and techniques that has assisted him on his journey from park to arena. The sound when his taught body hit the tape before anyone could, was blissful. The medal was his, the moment was his and the accolades that follow will be his and boy does he deserve it. Let me tell you why.
Here was an individual who was building upon a platform that only a few of us knew about. That platform was not wealth, privilege or easy-ride but one of adversity, setback and just pure grit. Research highlights that many of the great champions use personal and sporting adversity in their lives to develop this journey to success and Steve had just proved it.
Steve’s real name will remain confidential as with all my clients but I have his permission to talk in this preface about his world of performance. The highlights, the failures, the pain, the injuries, the adversity and the flame that always was glowing at the end of his tunnel of narrow focus.
I introduced my work to Steve over 10 years ago and been involved with his plan for all that time. I take no credit for his achievements and I know he would have got there whatever it took. What I would say is that victory came earlier because of Steve embracing the concept of mental conditioning and incorporating it as part of his life during downtime, training, competition and injury.
I have seen him during the injury periods when he was literally strapped to the bed to stop him just taking that light run against the advice of his physiotherapist, strength & conditioning coach and his biomechanics advisor. The pain wincing in his eyes on every movement. The fear across his brow, thinking is this the one that ends it all. But that was just fleeting, he called upon his techniques he had learned from me to reappraise and reframe those thoughts, to seperate the emotion out of the thought before it was stored away and the tapping into his mental toughness training that delivered that wave of hardiness and determination back to him.
He came back from injury stronger, fitter and leaner because of his mindset and attitude. He always followed the plan, it was like a roadmap for him. We had taken quite some time in the beginning to plot the co-ordinates of where he was then and what he wanted to achieve and lay down the marker there. The plan was dynamic to take account of changes, dynamic changes that often shook the positioning of the axes. He carried it everywhere, it was the constant reminder of his reason for being, his purpose if you like and I admired this. A young man with passion, purpose and pursuit for excellence.
So here we were, the moment had arrived and I could tell he was ready. You just know that feeling in your gut and he knew it. He was ready and was embracing the feelings and sensations swirling around his stomach. He knew this was excitement, not fear nor threat but his opportunity to perform.
He was assessing his arousal levels himself, he knew what they needed to be, his headphones delivering the right playlist to match those sensations. He was going to use this excitement to win. He knew from me that the beating heart, shallow breaths and uneasiness in his stomach was his evolution in operation, delivering blood and glucose to where it was needed and shutting down the irrelevant systems that were not needed for the following 44 seconds or so.
His attitude was professional, positive and always forward thinking. His plan listed the outcome, performance and process goals that had taken him to this performance point and showed everybody that he was ready. These goals drove intensity and direction of effort through his motivational behaviour towards excellence.
The fear and stress that plagues performers was not evident here. It will never go away, that’s not biological, but it can be managed if you know how and that management signifies that you want this chance and it means something to you. It’s control is part of his psychological preparation. The arousal control, the rituals even superstitions mix with his pre performance routine.
He closes his eyes and recalls those confidence building images we so painstakingly created over many years. They filter through all his senses as if he was at the movie theatre. They are big, colourful and real time. They blend well with what he is saying to himself. The affirmations and self talk are supportive and include cues, his specific verbal cues. They allow him to focus and ensure that there are no distractions. Nothing can get in the way of this preparation.
The emotions are left far behind. The family and friends were hours ago and a distant memory. Steve needs to have a firm grip on his emotional control. If feelings get in the way thay can destroy everything. I know he is now mentally rehearsing the race. The picture of this has been created by walking around the track many times, and formulating a familiar image developed in training and during his downtime. The image is for 45 seconds, his practice has resulted in 45 seconds and the medal is close for him at 45 seconds.
It doesn’t matter now. He can only focus upon what he can control, not the uncontrollable factors between now and then. He focuses upon how he is feeling, his processes in the run and just getting ready. The opponents are irrelevant, the officials, the ceremony, the crowd, the weather, forget them all, for now.
We do not say much, we don’t need to, we pray that if this is the moment then let it so be, if not, God has a better plan for Steve. His eyes are narrowing, he is ready to take that prize and I can tell that his breathing has finally accepted that the time has come. He leaves the changing room and takes that walk to the blocks, alone. Many want to run away here, they need the toilet, they want chatter and reassurance. Steve doesn’t because he is ready and prepared and the pressure the others are feeling are lack of knowledge, lack of information and lack of preparation.
I stay behind. No need to watch just a reflection on whether I got it right. I think I did. I helped a human being a little bit today, towards their life’s purpose.
Forty four seconds later, he was a champion, not 45 but 44. That little piece of faith shared with God, today shaved one second off of his time, and do you know what, often that is all it takes to be the difference. My work here is done and more people to help with their journeys, so I leave. I join the celebrations later, family, friends and the rest of the team. Steve has done the media, done the debrief and done the time.
Steve and many people like him should inspire us. Yes I know that focused people like this are not always easy, but who said success was easy? I didn’t. Look around as we now have more information to consume than we ever had, read about the inspirational stories and think, hey that could be me. I have to put something into it but look what I can get out.
I know you arrived for a business book and I hope you will not hold it against me that I recount Steve’s story, but there is a Steve everywhere I work. The leaders, managers and business owners that I help get ready, the surgeon ready to make that cut, the air traffic controller who