{"id":1188,"date":"2022-11-07T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staminaleadership.0d288ba.rcomhost.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:06:38","slug":"multitasking-and-meetings-are-killing-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/multitasking-and-meetings-are-killing-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitasking and Meetings are Killing Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many times I&#8217;ve heard leaders praising people by their &#8220;multitasking skills&#8221;. Yet all the productivity experts are crystal clear: multitasking does not allow a flow state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is simply because our own brains do not multitask. They switch from one activity to the other, and every time we switch our accuracy and speed take a toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Productivity is the result of concentration in a task at hand with no distractions, among other things. People need to be able to spend blocks of time working on a single task, activity or project, with no distractions, to get the most out of the invested time and produce high quality results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s one additional component to productivity: breaks. Research has proven that even short breaks improve attention, decision making quality, motivation and well-being, among other benefits, resulting in a higher level of productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let that sink in for a minute and think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>how is work structured in our team?<\/li><li>what is the percentage of our agenda that is filled by meetings?<\/li><li>do we praise people for how many things they are working on simultaneously?<\/li><li>do we provide working arrangements (time, space, tools) that enable focus and concentration?<\/li><li>do we consider breaks and downtime when planning activities and defining goals?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning about deep work, flow state and creativity can help us and our teams 10x productivity.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many times I&#8217;ve heard leaders praising people by their &#8220;multitasking skills&#8221;. Yet all the productivity experts are crystal clear: multitasking does not allow a flow state. And this is simply because our own brains do not multitask. They switch from one activity to the other, and every time we switch our accuracy and speed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staminaleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/productivity-post-stamina.jpg?fit=1048%2C699&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staminaleadership.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}