How To Increase Productivity In Your Business

The fantastic Lisa Bodell joined me last week to discuss some of the ways to boost productivity in your business.

As CEO of FutureThink , renowned futurist and global council member of the World Economic Forum with expertise on the topic of innovation and simplicity, Lisa is the MVP when it comes to simplifying business practices and getting the best out of your teams.

She has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at organisations including Bloomberg, Pfizer, and Lockheed Martin.

From the creation of rule killing sessions, to the reason people resist change. This interview is packed with so many valuable insights for leaders!

Check out a snippet from our conversation below:

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what people get wrong when it comes to change?

Well, the reason you're CEO is because you are a blue sky thinker and you do want to change things, which makes you good at your job. What makes it hard is realizing that not everybody is like you, and I have the same thing. Like come on this will be great, it'll be painful, probably uncomfortable, but when you get through it…

For example, think about COVID, everyone before COVID said we'll never be able to work at home, we’ll never be able to do things remote, and now everyone's saying: “go back to work??I'm not doing that!” But they had to go through it in an intense period.

It shouldn't have to take a pandemic to change people. I think that most of the resistance to change is driven by fear. So it's not just our job to get rid of the blocking of change, it's the fear. People naturally fear the unknown, they fear missing out, they fear getting fired. So changing a lot at once is hard.

The biggest thing I think people don't realize about change is, when people hear change they hear “more”, and what I mean by that is, you need to do more and people are already exhausted, busy, they don't want to take on more. They are maxed.

So this is my bias, but I think for change management to work, you have to start by "getting rid of". You’ve got to weed the garden and get rid of all the crap and unnecessary things and simplify.

That's why simplicity is such a big thing right now, so you can make the space for change to happen. People don't have time, so you better find it and there's plenty of places that you can find, or get back time by getting rid of unnecessary things. And I could go off on a whole thing on that, but there's a lot of people who are smart, and you hired them to do more than meetings and emails. But they do that all day Long. So if we can just change how they're using their time, I think that they'll get better on board with change. They'll get pumped up by it.

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