5 ways to kick-start your CAT preparation

5 ways to kick-start your CAT preparation Clarify your purpose for doing an MBA: Contents hide 1 Clarify your purpose for doing an MBA: 2 Start with a mock test: 2.1 If you are weak in the Quant section: 2.2 If you are weak in Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability: 2.3 If you are weak in Logical Reasoning: 2.4 If you are weak in Data Interpretation: 2.5 If you are weak in Decision making: 3 Time Management: 4 Mock Tests and Mock Analysis: Before you start off with any study material and roll out your preparation process, take some time out and ask yourself, why you want to do an MBA? Let me tell you something. Your panelist may not ask you to introduce yourself, but no panelist in any Indian b-school will ever skip this one question: Why MBA? You may belong to any background, let’s say Pharmaceuticals, but why you are willing to leave your own field and change over to Business Studies is something you should be extremely clear about! Jot down those points. An MBA degree is rewarding, stimulating and ensures a professional with high remuneration, but the relevance of MBA in your career is what you should be able to explain with sound logic.Graduation hat and ladders leading to success on grunge background. Education conceptStart with a mock test: Let me assume you have not yet started your preparation. So why am I being crazy and asking you to take a mock test now? Because ALL MANAGEMENT ENTRANCES ARE APTITUDE TESTS! Aptitude tests are based on what you have learned in Mathematics till class X, your logical abilities and critical thinking, your innate ability to take the optimum best decision and your verbal knowledge and analysis power. We must remember that most of these qualities we already possess by the virtue of our schooling, reading habit etc and so, we can only polish them in order to stay ahead of others.So, with absolutely zero preparation when you take a mock test, you get an idea of your strengths and weaknesses. There are plenty of websites that offer you free mock tests. Take one of them with complete honesty. This is the first step in your preparation for these exams.  Concept building:Now that you have a clear idea of your strengths and weaknesses, I suggest you start focusing on your weak area.If you are weak in the Quant section: If you have not enrolled in any institute for CAT and OMET (Other Management Entrance Exam) preparation, grab the Quant material of any well-known institute as well as keep a Quant book, such as books by Sarvesh Verma and Arun Sharma with you. Then comes the most vital part, READ ALL THE THEORY related to a topic before delving straight into the exercise. This is extremely important to build a strong base. Then go over to the exercise.If you are weak in Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability: This section is largely dependent on your exposure to the world of English language throughout your life, your reading habit so far and if you can interpret a passage after you read it. But if you do not have a reading ha bit, you can start reading a quality English newspaper daily. This will not only improve your command over English but also improve your general knowledge, which is extremely important for SNAP, IIFT,  XAT etc. You can pick up a novel by any good author and try to finish it within a week. YouTube videos on discussion on social issues in English, also helps a lot.But most importantly, if you are weak in this section, you MUST practice at least two comprehensions a day, ten Verbal Ability questions and carry out a thorough analysis of your mistakes.If you are weak in Logical Reasoning:You can crack this section if you make online puzzle solving your hobby! Solve riddles, math puzzles whenever you get time. As you do this regularly, your brain automatically gets used to find ways to analyse the complications of a puzzle much faster by disintegrating the problem into simpler parts. Practice around 5 questions of logical reasoning every day from actual CAT papers, institute study materi als or from online preparation sites to get an edge over others. Analyse, where you went wrong and why.If you are weak in Data Interpretation: Data Interpretation is all about being smart with numbers and calculation and being able to see through data and the mobility of data. You can start with learning some standard calculations such as the squares and cubes up to 25, square roots and cube roots from 1 to 10, percentages etc. You can go through any material or the Data Interpretation book by Arun Sharma, from where you must practice at least 3-4 Data Interpretation questions at least 3 or 4 days a week.If you are weak in Decision making: Decision making is the trickiest part in XAT test and I have seen a lot of my fellow aspirants, who are 95 percentilers in Quant or Logical Reasoning, to struggle haplessly in this section. Decision making is the innate ability to take the optimum best decision in a crisis situation. I say “optimum” because the other options may not be wrong, but they may not be the best. So, how do you judge? There are some golden rules: The decision you take should never be too lenient or too aggressive or sound too people-pleasing and MUST be the best decision that seem even with respect to all the stake-holders in question. In short, balanced.But that’s easier said, than done. Hence, I suggest you to get hold of reasoning book by Piyush Bhardwaj, published by Arihant Publishers or solve decision making questions from actual XAT papers.Now, you must try your mighty best to practice all the sections every day, with more emphasis on your weak areas.Time Management:CAT is no rocket science! You can solve all the 100 questions if you sit with it the whole day. But the real challenge is to solve the questions within the stipulated time, keeping your mind relaxed and without panicking. And hence, time management is the MOST IMPORTANT factor.Let’s talk about the quant section; you are given 60 minutes to solve 34 questions. So you have b asically 1.76 minutes to solve all the questions in this section. If you leave out 16 questions and solve 20, still you are left with only 3 minutes to solve each. Hence, you should focus on two things; one, you must time yourself and train yourself to solve each quant question in 2 minutes time and you must pick out the easiest ones and solve them first. Come on, you are not given Brownie points to solve harder questions isn’t it!As of reading comprehension, you must take 15 minutes for each passage; don’t rush through it, read and analyse, because it is more important to get your answers correct than to get a bunch of wrong answers.Similarly, you must train yourself to solve each Logical Reasoning or Data Interpretation question under 10 -12 minutes.As for Decision Making, it is very important to read and analyse the case-let and understand what the question is actually asking before answering it. Hence rushing through this section is a very bad idea. In XAT, if you can answer around 12-14 decision making questions correctly, congratulations, you have secured above 92 percentile in this section.Mock Tests and Mock Analysis: Home career 5 ways to kick-start your CAT preparationcareerCollege Campuses5 ways to kick-start your CAT preparationBy Sayantani - April 15, 201822220Facebook I have been preparing for M.B.A. entrance exams since 2 years now and shall soon be joining a decent b-school and therefore, I think I am in a position to share with you my opinion on how you can plan to start your preparation to crack these exams.M.B.A. stands for Masters of Business Administration and is currently the most sought-after “Masters” degree in India. Although most of the colleges, including the government colleges like I.I.M.s, offer a Diploma degree in Management whereas the I.I.Ts, X.I.M.B., Narsee Monjee Mumbai e.t.c.   offers an M.B.A. degree, there is not much difference in the curriculum. In the past 5 years, innumerable number of students as well as professionals, from varied backgrounds such as Business, Engineering and Technology, Science, Commerce and even Arts and Medicine, have opted out from the ir own field of study to pursue MBA.Just a month ago, I appeared for the Group Discussion and personal interview test of an esteemed b-school and guess what, I was accompanied by a doctor and two Charter Accountants, among a bunch of Commerce and Engineering graduates. Hence, you can already imagine that the entire process is, in a way, getting tougher and tougher every year! At present we have a whooping 5,20,000 MBA students passing out of the b-schools in our country this year. Needless to say, due to this over-crowding, the level of difficulty of the various management entrances such as CAT, XAT, IIFT etc are increasing every year!So, how should you plan and go ahead with your preparation? How do you manage your most valuable resource, which is time, to reap yourself the maximum benefits? Let’s see how:Clarify your purpose for doing an MBA: Contents hide 1 Clarify your purpose for doing an MBA: 2 Start with a mock test: 2.1 If you are weak in the Quant section: 2.2 I f you are weak in Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability: 2.3 If you are weak in Logical Reasoning: 2.4 If you are weak in Data Interpretation: 2.5 If you are weak in Decision making: 3 Time Management: 4 Mock Tests and Mock Analysis: Before you start off with any study material and roll out your preparation process, take some time out and ask yourself, why you want to do an MBA? Let me tell you something. Your panelist may not ask you to introduce yourself, but no panelist in any Indian b-school will ever skip this one question: Why MBA? You may belong to any background, let’s say Pharmaceuticals, but why you are willing to leave your own field and change over to Business Studies is something you should be extremely clear about! Jot down those points. An MBA degree is rewarding, stimulating and ensures a professional with high remuneration, but the relevance of MBA in your career is what you should be able to explain with sound logic.Graduation hat and ladders leading to success on grunge background. Education conceptStart with a mock test: Let me assume you have not yet started your preparation. So why am I being crazy and asking you to take a mock test now? Because ALL MANAGEMENT ENTRANCES ARE APTITUDE TESTS! Aptitude tests are based on what you have learned in Mathematics till class X, your logical abilities and critical thinking, your innate ability to take the optimum best decision and your verbal knowledge and analysis power. We must remember that most of these qualities we already possess by the virtue of our schooling, reading habit etc and so, we can only polish them in order to stay ahead of others.So, with absolutely zero preparation when you take a mock test, you get an idea of your strengths and weaknesses. There are plenty of websites that offer you free mock tests. Take one of them with complete honesty. This is the first step in your preparation for these exams.  Concept building:Now that you have a clear idea of your strengths a nd weaknesses, I suggest you start focusing on your weak area.If you are weak in the Quant section: If you have not enrolled in any institute for CAT and OMET (Other Management Entrance Exam) preparation, grab the Quant material of any well-known institute as well as keep a Quant book, such as books by Sarvesh Verma and Arun Sharma with you. Then comes the most vital part, READ ALL THE THEORY related to a topic before delving straight into the exercise. This is extremely important to build a strong base. Then go over to the exercise.If you are weak in Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability: This section is largely dependent on your exposure to the world of English language throughout your life, your reading habit so far and if you can interpret a passage after you read it. But if you do not have a reading habit, you can start reading a quality English newspaper daily. This will not only improve your command over English but also improve your general knowledge, which is extremely i mportant for SNAP, IIFT,  XAT etc. You can pick up a novel by any good author and try to finish it within a week. YouTube videos on discussion on social issues in English, also helps a lot.But most importantly, if you are weak in this section, you MUST practice at least two comprehensions a day, ten Verbal Ability questions and carry out a thorough analysis of your mistakes.If you are weak in Logical Reasoning:You can crack this section if you make online puzzle solving your hobby! Solve riddles, math puzzles whenever you get time. As you do this regularly, your brain automatically gets used to find ways to analyse the complications of a puzzle much faster by disintegrating the problem into simpler parts. Practice around 5 questions of logical reasoning every day from actual CAT papers, institute study materials or from online preparation sites to get an edge over others. Analyse, where you went wrong and why.If you are weak in Data Interpretation: Data Interpretation is all about being smart with numbers and calculation and being able to see through data and the mobility of data. You can start with learning some standard calculations such as the squares and cubes up to 25, square roots and cube roots from 1 to 10, percentages etc. You can go through any material or the Data Interpretation book by Arun Sharma, from where you must practice at least 3-4 Data Interpretation questions at least 3 or 4 days a week.If you are weak in Decision making: Decision making is the trickiest part in XAT test and I have seen a lot of my fellow aspirants, who are 95 percentilers in Quant or Logical Reasoning, to struggle haplessly in this section. Decision making is the innate ability to take the optimum best decision in a crisis situation. I say “optimum” because the other options may not be wrong, but they may not be the best. So, how do you judge? There are some golden rules: The decision you take should never be too lenient or too aggressive or sound too people-pleasin g and MUST be the best decision that seem even with respect to all the stake-holders in question. In short, balanced.But that’s easier said, than done. Hence, I suggest you to get hold of reasoning book by Piyush Bhardwaj, published by Arihant Publishers or solve decision making questions from actual XAT papers.Now, you must try your mighty best to practice all the sections every day, with more emphasis on your weak areas.Time Management:CAT is no rocket science! You can solve all the 100 questions if you sit with it the whole day. But the real challenge is to solve the questions within the stipulated time, keeping your mind relaxed and without panicking. And hence, time management is the MOST IMPORTANT factor.Let’s talk about the quant section; you are given 60 minutes to solve 34 questions. So you have basically 1.76 minutes to solve all the questions in this section. If you leave out 16 questions and solve 20, still you are left with only 3 minutes to solve each. Hence, you s hould focus on two things; one, you must time yourself and train yourself to solve each quant question in 2 minutes time and you must pick out the easiest ones and solve them first. Come on, you are not given Brownie points to solve harder questions isn’t it!As of reading comprehension, you must take 15 minutes for each passage; don’t rush through it, read and analyse, because it is more important to get your answers correct than to get a bunch of wrong answers.Similarly, you must train yourself to solve each Logical Reasoning or Data Interpretation question under 10 -12 minutes.As for Decision Making, it is very important to read and analyse the case-let and understand what the question is actually asking before answering it. Hence rushing through this section is a very bad idea. In XAT, if you can answer around 12-14 decision making questions correctly, congratulations, you have secured above 92 percentile in this section.Mock Tests and Mock Analysis: Perhaps, the most importa nt part of this entire preparation phase is taking mock tests or more importantly, mock analysis. I can guarantee you; you will learn a lot more from mock analysis than you will ever learn from any other sources. Take 2 mocks every month, during your initial phase of preparation and 2- 3 days for the full analysis of every mock. Go through all your mistakes, solve all your unanswered questions and even see through the ones you got correct. If necessary, make notes or copy down any new concept that you learn through mock analysis.During the later phase, you must take 5-6 mock tests in every month but take care to see, that you don’t skip a mock analysis before going over to the next mock. Before you face CAT, you must have taken 15 â€" 18 mocks and have completed their full analysis. Moreover, your mock test and mock analysis must cover all the entrance exams you are aiming for, not only CAT.I must mention here, that during the initial months, your mock results may be miserable, bu t you must not give up. Remember, only proper analysis of mocks can improve your percentiles and with time, you will see how easily you soar and get a score of above 100- 120 in mock tests.I suggest you maintain a diary or a separate folder in your computer where you keep a screenshot of all your mock results and analyse your performance.I would like to conclude by saying that the preparation of management entrances such as CAT, XAT should be made into a habit and cannot be achieved by the work of one day or one month. Regular reading of good novels, English newspapers, critically analyzing the newspaper or magazine articles, juggling the quant formulae in your mind when you are free as well as solving math puzzles daily are some of the immensely valuable habits that can make you crack these exams easily as well as mould you into a more qualified individual.TAGSCatcat preparationcat preparation bookscat preparation in patnacat preparation onlinecat preparation quoradecision makingEd ucationMbamockQuantXat

Resume Header Example - A Descriptive Resume Writing Strategy

Resume Header Example - A Descriptive Resume Writing StrategyIf you are looking for a resume header example, then you have come to the right place. In this article I am going to discuss what a resume header is and how you can use it to make your resume stand out.There are three important parts to any resume. The first part is the objective section which should be strong and must be able to express the skills and experience that you have for a job. The second part should be the related job objective section.The third part of a resume is the job objective which should be a summary of what you have done in a position. This part is usually an action plan on how you will proceed with your job search.The first two parts must be strong. They should not be too general so that your resume is not thrown away and they must be specific enough to get the attention of potential employers. A strong objective section is going to stand out from the rest of your resume, not only from a reader but also from a potential employer.The same is true for the related jobs section. There is no point writing a paragraph of meaningless goals if it doesn't tell the reader what you have done already. It must be clear and relevant to the position you are applying for.You must be able to state the key things that each of these sections are talking about. To do this you must write an outline that will get you from point A to point B in the shortest amount of time. In addition, you must be able to give a good definition for each of the important terms used.My resume outlines are based on my personal preference for a resume. However, they should be specific enough to focus the reader's attention on the key points.I hope this resume examples article has been useful to you. Please feel free to use the links below.

How Much is Your Personal Brand Worth - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

How Much is Your Personal Brand Worth - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Instead of matching your brand to a dollar amount; think of the market your serving. Not everyone needs your brand to accomplish A, B or C. Stay niche and dont drift away from your personal brand. A marketing firm isnt going to hire a veterinarian and a hospital isnt going to hire a CFO. These are extreme cases, but know that you need to research your niche to find, promote and attract clients or hiring companies. The image on the right is Hanukkah gelt. For anyone who isnt Jewish, it is chocolate wrapped in foil and given out during the holiday, alongside dradles, for little children. If your goal in life is to collect gelt, then you are reading the wrong blog. ?? Your brand value is equal to the total amount of money your audience is willing to pay for your services. This amount may increase or decrease depending on a variety of factors: Global economic situation Your experience in that industry/field Organizational need (supply vs demand) Results from a successful project Size of the target company Benefits package inclusions Your network volume, credibility and relevance to their business Their total budget they can allocate to your services Evidence of an online personal brand (blogs, etc) Specialty skills (i.e. salesmanship, writing, analytical,etc) Case histories (projects +customer references) Care to add? Your goal should be to closely align your personal brand value with compensation. The organizations goal is to pay you the least amount possible for your services, while still hiring you. You need to find some common ground in order to accept the job and be satisfied simultaneously. Your personal brand toolkit will elevate your pay grade drastically, as youre showcasing more value to them, as well as skills that can help their business push into the future. In order for a company to grant you more money, you need to give them justification. Think about it; if you were a manager and were given a pay scale of between $40,000 and $60,000, you will want to hire the best possible candidate for that $40,000. If an applicant comes along that exceeds expectations and is unique to the position youre hiring for, wouldnt it be worth paying $50,000 $60,000 for them? Of course and thats the way you should think as you build your brand and position it to employers or potential customers.

Spring Clean your Career

Spring Clean your Career Though there are a few residual flakes, spring has officially sprung in Chicago! Spring conventionally signifies restoring your garden, organizing your closet, and new fashion trends. Aside from these options, why not clean more, like our careers? To help you get started, here are 3 basic steps to get you in the career-cleaning spirit: Step 1: Assess Your Career Our daily endeavors can deter us from passionately pursuing our careers. Regardless, springtime can be a great time to evaluate your current situation. A helpful evaluation technique is to create a 2 year plan of your desired career progress. The timeline can include graduate degrees, promotions, and other accomplishments. From personal experience, it is important to include long-term projects and certifications, as these are unique opportunities to one’s field or company. Once you complete the plan, compare your goals to your current position. Do you enjoy your job? Does this position work as a stepping stone for your future? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, it’s time to reevaluate. Have a discussion with your manager to identify new responsibilities and create steps for career advancement. The discussion should conclude with action items that help you develop your skills and guide you through your desired career path.  Step 2:  Educate Yourself The best way to develop your career: keep learning. Be conversant in your field; be able to identify trends in the marketplace; and recognize the leaders of the industry. Some great ways to stay in tune with your industry are: Follow topical news items:  The news is a great resource to learn and identify current business trends. The more you know how the effects of external factors, the better insights and value you can provide for your company. Industry-specific Organizations:  Many organizations seek novice members to grow within and lead. Join an organization and attend their networking events, training sessions, and free seminars. The relationships you cultivate are valuable for your future. Periodicals/Blogs:  Blogs and magazines are a great way to brush up on the current trends and leaders in your industry. Always remember: quality over quantity. It’s easy to read articles without digesting the content, gain a few learning points from each reading. Online Job Boards:  Job boards are a great resource for those who don’t know what they want. Job boards can provide insight into your current role; a role you can aspire to have; or new industries requiring your skills. Step 3: Clean Up Finally, the cleaning process starts with your resume. Leverage the attained knowledge in regards to your industry and role to re-design your resume content. The information should contain the necessary skills and work experience to reflect what current employers need. Next, create and update your virtual resume, a LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn has evolved into a universal career portfolio, containing work experience and a network. A robust LinkedIn will exceed your resume, with presentations, awards, and recommendations from previous employers. Improve your profile by finding inspiration from LinkedIn superstars (find these guys with a quick Google search). With these steps in hand, you can begin your spring cleaning of your career! The process will be different for an individual, as the combinations of career paths and industries are vast. Feel free to share any great stories of your spring cleaning in the comments below or tweet @mscareergirl with #springcleaning! Image Credits:  Spray bottle image from  FreeDigitalPhotos.net by winnond Image from  FreeDigitalPhotos.net by stockimage

Drive Your Resume From Home - How to Use Google Drive Resume Template

Drive Your Resume From Home - How to Use Google Drive Resume TemplateMany new and budding entrepreneurs are opting to make use of Google Drive resume templates in order to convert the daunting task of creating a resume into an easy, fun, and rewarding experience. If you want to know more about these templates, then you will need to read on.Google Drive is an application that makes it possible for anyone, irrespective of their location, to store, access, share, and edit various files, including their resumes. Many times, these resumes have to be organized and produced with an appropriate presentation. But once they are uploaded into the repository, then everything becomes much easier.So, how can we know that we are heading in the right track? The answer is simple. After all, these people are using the tools provided by Google to organize their resumes. But we do not need to worry that their resumes are exactly the same as those provided by the company.As far as you are concerned, the Google Drive resumes template is a specialized job that you can undertake from the comfort of your home. With a little extra effort, you can easily create your own template and upload it in the repository. You can decide the formatting and graphics to be used and even modify the content of the resume at any point of time.When you buy a template from Google, you are actually paying for features such as customization, speed, etc. Once you manage to get your hands on a good template, you can immediately start working on your own resume without spending a single cent of your own money.A high quality Google Drive resume template will also come with free templates and samples of a single job. This is a great way to practice as you can take a look at the content, look for similarities and decide whether you should make use of the template or not.A great feature that you would not find in a standard template is the free templates. By adding a few details, you can transform an ordinary resum e into something extraordinary.What's more, the Google Drive resumes template will save you a lot of time and you can upload as many copies as you want. So, go ahead and join the bandwagon. Start making your own unique resumes today.

What to do when you miss academia - Debut

What to do when you miss academia - Debut This post was written by an external contributor. Lucy Pegg has some tips for anyone who is looking to fill the void that academia leaves behind.   As a student, you might have claimed to hate lectures. You might have dozed your way through half your seminars and skim-read the majority of your books. But a funny thing happens when you graduate â€" you start to really miss all that stuff. In the world of work, where everything seems to be about targets, deadlines and who took the last teabag in the staff kitchen, the idea of spending two hours gently discussing postmodern confessional poetry suddenly seems a luxury. You’ll begin to yearn for a heated scholarly debate. You’ll wonder how you can ever reclaim those halcyon days of yore. Worry no more, for Debut is here to help. Whilst we can’t turn back the clock, we can give you a few nifty tips to reconnect yourself with academia. From podcasts to nerdy Facebook groups, there are so many ways to put yourself back in the seminar room. Download some podcasts Choose the right series and a podcast basically becomes a lecture you can listen to on your commute. Pop in your headphones and you can relieve being a student again, except you have a salary and not a student loan. Your listening options are endless; the New Yorker Fiction podcast will take you straight back to an English seminar, whilst the BBC’s Infinite Monkey Cage covers everything science via the medium of academics, comedians and Brian Cox. And thats just the tip of the iceberg; there are thousands more out there to explore. Find some free (or cheap) lectures Even though you’re used to paying £9,250 a year for your lectures, there are plenty which are free of charge. Most universities hold public lectures quite frequently and everyone is welcome. Just look at your local universities websites to see what’s on â€" for example, the London School of Economics host a whole hoard of events that can be found here. But you don’t have to go back to campus to hear a lecture. They’re often held in casual settings, from bookshops to cafes to bars, and if there is an entry fee its likely to be under £5. Check on Facebook or at likely local venues â€" if you’re in Nottingham, the independent Five Leaves Bookshop’s talks are here. Keep reading There’s no reading list being emailed to you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go back to books. If you want to feel all academic, why not try reading non-fiction or even scholarly texts again? If you want to start slowly, decide what topics you’re interested in, then check out the bestsellers in that area. They’re likely to be engaging and accessible, whilst still giving you the facts. If you want to try something more strictly academic, your local library makes a good starting point, as those books you were citing in your essays don’t come cheap. Most importantly though, dive in with enthusiasm â€" if you get bored, confused, or just lazy, move on to something else. Now it’s not compulsory, reading should be an escape from work stress, rather than a chore itself. Social media Nowadays, it seems that social media is the answer to everything. Perhaps social media was how you procrastinated during your degree, but now it can be a gentle, casual way to ease yourself back into the academic world. Think about following the lecturers you loved on Twitter, or tracking down other academics whose work you remember enjoying. TV academics can be a good starting point I follow classicist Mary Beard and Horrible Histories historian Greg Jenner. If you’re looking for discussion and a like-minded community, finding a Facebook could be the way forward. With the internet being as vast as it is, you can get very niche here, whether geographically (perhaps a Facebook group for historians that are based in your county) or comedically (yes, I am embarrassingly in a group called ‘I found it on JSTOR’ that consists entirely of critical theory memes). You might not technically be a student anymore, but that doesn’t mean your days of study have to be completely behind you. If you’re missing academia it’s simple to get back into it â€" and now without the need to write a 3000 word essay afterwards. Connect with Debut on  Facebook,  Twitter,  and  LinkedIn  for more careers insights.

3 Changes That Always Lead To Better Productivity

3 Changes That Always Lead To Better Productivity Something that you can say for certain is that a business needs to be productive if it is to be successful. Achieving and maintaining a high level of productivity is of course always hard to do, but you will find that it is necessary in order to really make the kind of changes you want in your business. As it happens, there are a number of things you can do to ensure that you are improving the productivity of your business at every step. As long as you are focused on some of those things, you should be able to ensure that your business is going to be much more productive and get more done on the whole, and that will mean that you can expect much more from it as results as well. Let’s take a look at just three changes which always lead to better productivity. A Cleaner Office It is hard for most people to be truly productive if they are working in a dirty or untidy office environment. If this is true of your workplace, then you might want to make sure that you are actually keeping it as clean as possible instead of letting it get dirty and unused. The simplest way to do this is to outsource it so that you are using professional office cleaning services in order to keep it clean every day. But you should also think about trying to keep it tidy as you go along, which is something that really everyone has responsibility for. As long as you can do that, you will find that the productivity levels suddenly rise through the roof, which is exactly what you need to happen here. Simpler Processes In general, the more simplified you make the internal processes in the business, the more that your people will actually be able to get done. Having simpler processes like this means that you are able to actually focus on what is important, and when your employees are all doing that as well it can really make a profound difference. If you don’t know how to simplify your processes or don’t know where to begin, you might want to think about getting someone from outside to take a look. That kind of help can be invaluable, especially as they are that much more likely to know what is wrong as they are not used to seeing it every day. When you simplify your processes, you will find that you can much more effectively raise productivity levels in the organization. Calmer Atmosphere The atmosphere in the office is a huge determiner of how likely you are to succeed in raising productivity. The calmer it is, the easier it will be to ensure that the work is being done atr a good pace, so it’s definitely a good idea to make sure you are doing whatever you can to keep the atmosphere up. That could mean having a social gathering every now and then, or simply making sure that you yourself are happy when you work there. Hopefully that happiness will spread like wildfire.

grow your passionate career

Tough (Question) Tuesday What do you need most to help launch/grow your passionate career Three Confident Owls by La Piro Shop Id be lying if I said that todays Tough (Question) Tuesday post wasnt inspired by the Launch Youself sale I wrote about yesterday, and also by the Right Brain Business Plan Video Summit Ive been attending since last week (its free, and not too late to join!). Between hearing Hiro Boga talk about being your own business advisor, and Tara Gentile speaking on how hoarding your money creates a scarcity complex, and seeing all the money/career/lady-centric goodness thats going out in the world (til midnight tonight!) What do you need most to help launch/grow your passionate career? Keep in mind that this doesnt have to be tangibleit can be a feeling, a belief, a perspective thats valid, too. Cant wait to hear about it in the comments!