It's Time to Understand the Difference between Being Busy and Being Productive!
Hello there!
Greetings for the festivities and I hope that these days have lightened up the mood at your office and filled it with an optimistic zing to start work with more energy in the coming Hindu New Year! Well, I wish for all that, this week is filled with a wonderful time with your family, super fun taash-parties, sweets and savories to relish, and that you make the most of these auspicious days!
Now, let's get on with today's blog topic.
Here's to all the managers / bosses who themselves as well as ask his/her employees under him to work on a public holiday, late in the night, give a hard-time while approving sick leaves or holidays, and for the employees who actually live up-to these terms and conditions in the name of being a hard-working individual:
There's a line between being busy and being productive. Being productive will definitely make you busy but being busy doesn't necessarily have to transform into being productive. Basically, 'busy' people are those who rant: "Too much to do, Too little time" and 'productive' means the ability to produce a large amount of outcome, which can be of any form. The line that distinguishes these two concepts is the amount of time available and the efficiency of the employee. It's a simple equation, an employee finishing his target in the set time or less can be counted as productive, but, just by 'looking' busy won't make as efficient and productive as the former.
This perception needs to change in both ways - in the employees mind as well as in the employers mind. The employee needs to understand and figure out ways to be productive or increase his/her productivity so that there are no chances of over-time, losing the work-life balance and eventually dreading the organization as a whole. On the flip-side, the employers need to stop motivating the fact that 'the more time an employee spends in the office, the more competent and dedicated he/she is", and also rating the employees based on the amount of time spent in the office - this trend may not seem so 'obvious' and so 'true' but it is present and that practice really really needs to be changed, for good.
It's time to realize and practice the fact that having a higher salary package doesn't mean that you will be required to work for more hours (than the designated hours) and working for more hours doesn't really entitle you to a bigger pay package! So there's a lot at loss when you, as an employee, give into the practice of working over-time for numerous days in a month.
So, this is my take on the importance of being productive rather than being busy, and if you share the same views, share this post so that the fellow employees too, start this habit of being productive rather than being 'super busy' and also, comment if you have more views about the same.
I want to thank you all for following my posts till date, it has empowered me to write more about the views that I have about organizations and managerial skills!
Much Love, Positivity and Gratitude.
- Binal R. Chitroda
(#TheHRConnect)
Now, let's get on with today's blog topic.
Here's to all the managers / bosses who themselves as well as ask his/her employees under him to work on a public holiday, late in the night, give a hard-time while approving sick leaves or holidays, and for the employees who actually live up-to these terms and conditions in the name of being a hard-working individual:
There's a line between being busy and being productive. Being productive will definitely make you busy but being busy doesn't necessarily have to transform into being productive. Basically, 'busy' people are those who rant: "Too much to do, Too little time" and 'productive' means the ability to produce a large amount of outcome, which can be of any form. The line that distinguishes these two concepts is the amount of time available and the efficiency of the employee. It's a simple equation, an employee finishing his target in the set time or less can be counted as productive, but, just by 'looking' busy won't make as efficient and productive as the former.
It's time to realize and practice the fact that having a higher salary package doesn't mean that you will be required to work for more hours (than the designated hours) and working for more hours doesn't really entitle you to a bigger pay package! So there's a lot at loss when you, as an employee, give into the practice of working over-time for numerous days in a month.
Prioritizing work is a good thing, it is one of the most crucial motivating factors for achieving the goals, but both, the employees and the employers need to understand that there needs to be a balance in all the priorities. If 'work' comes first, 'life' has to be at par with it on the same position to avoid the increase the stress. Organizations who boast of flexi-timing and work-life balance really need to take this aspect into consideration. Not every employee is okay with being in office till mid-night or till the wee hours of the morning to finish the 'important report' that the manager very conveniently asked the employee to prepare at 5 in the evening, about the time the day's business is about to end.
Being productive is going to take you far ahead rather than just portraying yourself busy, take a look at this flow-chart, that shows how inculcating a 'productive' environment in an organization, will work wonders for the employees in a broader perspective.
Being productive is going to take you far ahead rather than just portraying yourself busy, take a look at this flow-chart, that shows how inculcating a 'productive' environment in an organization, will work wonders for the employees in a broader perspective.
So, this is my take on the importance of being productive rather than being busy, and if you share the same views, share this post so that the fellow employees too, start this habit of being productive rather than being 'super busy' and also, comment if you have more views about the same.
I want to thank you all for following my posts till date, it has empowered me to write more about the views that I have about organizations and managerial skills!
Much Love, Positivity and Gratitude.
- Binal R. Chitroda
(#TheHRConnect)