How to Be a Producer While Managing Others

How to be a producer while managing others

This is one of the greatest challenges leaders face when they are responsible for getting their own work done and managing the work of their team. And this gets even more complicated in a remote working world where you can’t actually see your team or even necessarily know exactly what they're getting accomplished and what they're working on throughout the day.

So, one of the keys in this is, make sure that you follow these three critical steps.

1: Apply the 80/20 rule to you and your team

Look at the greatest value inputs and what the work that your team is doing and how it contributes its highest value?

What is the 20% of those activities that are generating 80% of the results?

And once you have clarity on that for yourself and your team then you can do the second step

2: Reshuffle

Maybe some of the activities that you're doing aren’t necessarily contributing as much to the greater value and output of the team.

You can start to reorient those and reshuffle the responsibilities in the team to make sure that you're working on high-value activities and your team members are too.

3: Have a specific communication plan

So you can check in on key milestones in the process and making sure that everything is getting delivered.

Then have a series of one-on-one meetings to check in on your team to make sure that the results that you're trying to produce for your organization, and that of your team, are all getting accomplished and done by the deadlines.