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Become more productive with coworkers

Become more productive with coworkers

From the course: Personal Effectiveness Tips

Become more productive with coworkers

- There's a lot of debate these days about the best work environment. Should we all go virtual and work from home or, in order to spark innovation, should we bring everyone back to the office and try to provoke creative collisions? It's possible that face-to-face interactions lead to more breakthrough ideas and, for sure, it's important to build good working relationships, but it's an ironclad mathematical formula, the more time you spend with colleagues, the more opportunities they'll have to waste your time. Here are a few ways to preserve the good, but limit that productivity drain. First, it's important to know yourself and your circadian rhythms. When are you at your best? When are you personally most productive? Some folks are great in the morning and are able to plow through difficult work and make real progress. Others, usually the night owls, take a while to wake up and attain their full productivity and may be best later on in the day. It pays to understand your own internal…

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