Using Technology to Enhance Engagement and Increase Productivity

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Frontline Festival: Leaders share about favorite apps, technology, and productivity hacks

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival gives tips about favorite tools and technology. Now on to our topic for June: What tools do you use to stay productive? Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership has been tracking his productivity for around fifty years now. Productivity is never an accident.

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Productivity Through Technology

Jason Womack

Would you like to get a Productivity Through Technology boost for EVERY tool/gear/technology you use? You'll immediately gain access to more than just technology tips. Click here to join Get Momentum today. For the next 10 “Professional” members who join.

3 Productivity Tools for the Business Professional on the Move

Women on Business

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August Frontline Festival: Leaders Share Tips about Productive Work Spaces

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival gives tips about setting up a productive work space. Michelle Cubas, CPCC, ACC, of Positive Potentials, LLC shares that productivity is the result of an open mind and energy working together. Frontline Festival how to be more productive Productivity

The Secrets Of A Productive Business

Strategy Driven

There are people in this world who are super-productive. Don’t just look towards humans - look towards technology, too. This is something that technology definitely can’t help out with. You just finished reading The Secrets Of A Productive Business !

Are You Using Those Fun New Technologies to Monitor, Mentor or "Motivate" Your Employees? Prepare for Sabotage

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Galford: It has been hard to ignore the recent spate of stories about the newest techniques and technologies designed to increase employee efficiency, motivation and/or engagement.

Technology: Are you "Byte-Lingual"?

Jason Womack

Learn the language of technology to become more productive (save time) every day; become byte-lingual. How would you rate your overall "fluency" with your technology and tools? You use your email system and SMART phone every day; what would the impact be if you learned one new productivity feature each week for a year? Watch Online Video Tutorials : Visit video (or product) websites to learn about the product (service, program, etc) you’re interested in.

What you can use technology for?

Jason Womack

February 2016, we will lead an online course at Get Momentum titled: Be More Productive With Technology. I can almost read your mind. In fact, if I could see you right now, you might have a smirk on your.

Three Keys to Product Management Success

Lead on Purpose

As product managers you have a significant responsibility for the success of your company. Start by focusing on three simple, yet powerful, keys to success: Know your market: Get a clear understanding of the market where your products compete, and work diligently to stay out in front of new trends and technologies. Work with the sales team; understand how they sell your products. Know the weaknesses of the products (and take action to correct them).

4 Ways Millennials Can Boost Productivity and Fulfillment at Work

Michael Lee Stallard

These relationships made her more productive and increased her feelings of satisfaction and fulfillment. Below we summarize four practices Kate Otto recommends that can help Millennials boost productivity and fulfillment at work. Kate Otto Speaking.

How Nonprofit Leaders Can Use Strategy and Technology to Enhance Organization’s Performance

Great Leadership By Dan

Unprecedented competition, higher expectations, accelerating technology, changing preferences and time pressures are all converging to create a challenging landscape. The technology imperative. Ignoring the imperative and potential of technology is a short cut to irrelevance.

How to Host a Productive Generational Conversation

Nathan Magnuson

Here are some ways to make the conversation a productive one. Generational mindsets and preferences about work and leadership are extremely unique to this era, especially given the technology advances of the last few decades.

How you know you have a winning product

Lead on Purpose

In many ways, creating new technology based products and services has become much easier in recent years. With mobile apps, software as a service (SaaS) and other new tools, the cost of turning ideas into real products has significantly decreased. … Continue reading → Product Management growth Jobs Theory JTBD markets products sales

Mobile Learning Builds Knowledge and Productivity

Coaching Tip

Take a moment and think about how mobile technologies have improved your life. Mobile learning isn''t really about the technology or the device, and it shouldn''t be a primary mechnaism to deliver e-learning courses.

Two Resources for a Great Productivity Tool

Kevin Eikenberry

One of the top resolutions each year is to be better organized or be more productive. Books Learning Setting Goals Success evernote organization productivity

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Technology is not enough

Lead on Purpose

Just because you port or transition your product (software, hardware, etc.) to a model that is new/up-and-coming/exciting/proven/<fill in the blank>/ you have no guarantee it will succeed; technology is not enough to make a mediocre idea succeed. If your product or idea is not what potential customers are looking it does not matter what technology you use to roll it out.

Product leadership

Lead on Purpose

The position of Product Manager is the single most important individual contributor role at any technology (product-focused) company. The reason I make such a bold statement is this: If the product manager succeeds, the product succeeds. If the product team succeeds, the product line(s) will make money and the company will succeed. The key to success is product leadership. Become adept at leading product vision from the ground up.

Are We Experiencing A Technology Tsunami?

Rich Gee Group

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Key elements of leadership and product management

Lead on Purpose

Most technology companies are comprised of people and teams that discover, define, design, develop and deliver products to the market. Their success depends largely on how well these teams work together to produce great products and services. The role of product manager has become increasingly important to the success of the products and the companies; it has become increasingly strategic. This situation requires product managers to be leaders.

WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business Review

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. That’s our product, and that’s our passion.

Business Travelers Say Productivity Essential to Work-Life Balance

Women on Business

One reason work-life balance is challenging for business travelers is that companies demand greater productivity from business trips. Respondents indicated that increasing productivity on the road is essential to achieving work-life balance. The survey looked at “work-life productivity” and how business travelers can be most efficient on the road. cities for business travelers trying to achieve “work-life productivity” on overnight business trips.

108: Leading with the 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity | with Kory Kogon from FranklinCovey

Engaging Leader

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity is a new book that builds on the latest neuroscience plus decades of experience and research in the time management field. Kory Kogon is the Global Productivity Practice Leader for FranklinCovey. Rule your technology, don’t let it rule you.

The Top 5 Ways Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Boost Organizational Productivity

Strategy Driven

Enterprise social collaboration is a way for organizations to leverage social tools to improve employee engagement, bolster productivity and tap into a company’s collective intelligence.

The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

Reaching these lofty projections over the next four years, however, will require a fundamental reorientation in the way that technologists and product designers work together to create successful “connected” personal devices and home appliance products.

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Combining technologies: Working together to find product solutions

Rapid BI

guest business advice product innovation productivity When it comes to finding the best solutions, two heads are often better than one. Contractors can achieve much more by combining their knowledge of their own field with the expertise of another company in a related field. But how should contractors go about this? Choosing the right partner is essential to ensure the best […].

Convincing Skeptical Employees to Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business Review

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. ” Here are some ideas for encouraging the adoption of a new technology. Choose technology wisely.

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GC17: Can Gamification Truly Drive and Measure Sales Productivity? | with Mike Smalls from Hoopla

Engaging Leader

The post GC17: Can Gamification Truly Drive and Measure Sales Productivity? Mike has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry as a sales executive at several startups, and as a leader of a variety of teams at larger companies.

Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Don’t answer the question with technologies, offerings, or categories.

So You Created A Product, Now How Do Your Get It To Your Customer?

Strategy Driven

When you come up with a great idea for a product, you can often find that you spend so much time putting your all into its creating, to then be left stuck wondering what to do when it’s complete. So now it’s all about getting your product in front of them and making those sales.

Two Approaches to Building a Software Product

Utpal Writes

The problem most product development organizations run into is that they mystify them. Building a product by approach #2 sounds cool but requires a fundamental change in thinking - now that’s a cost, choose Lean Software Development only if you want to pay that cost. Winning tough battles requires sacrifices, so does building a great software product. The Software Project Management Tale – Technology First! Approach #1: Offer many solutions.

6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability. We call these the new silent killers of productivity and profitability.

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Does technology free us or enslave us?

Chartered Management Institute

Technology certainly aids those wishing to work from home, but is there a danger that having work available so readily can lead to a lack of psychological detachment from work? In part, weak segmentation manifests as work-technology behaviours at home.

Unproductive Time on Email Quickly Becoming a Corporate Productivity Concern

leaderCommunicator

For instance, the highly publicized “Zero Email Initiative” at the global technology firm Atos grew out of a company analysis that found the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering emails.

Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). Social enterprise Technology

Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us end global poverty. Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). Social enterprise Technology ICT

9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity

Harvard Business Review

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. But Wharton professor and psychologist Adam Grant believes resisting this urge can actually make us more productive.

Personalized Technology Will Upend the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Harvard Business Review

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Strategy Business models Health Technology Healthcare

Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways. But more often than not, the problem we’re facing isn’t a technological one, but a social one. The unfortunate reality is that no matter what technology you choose, at some point it will break down.

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Technology Can Save Onboarding from Itself

Harvard Business Review

It typically takes eight months for a newly hired employee to reach full productivity. Newly hired employees there (new “talent” as we refer to them) are ramping to productive contribution more effectively and more efficiently than ever before.