This endless cycle can be quite defeating and stifles creativity, especially when it comes to identifying and executing new and innovate ways to market and reach your valuable stakeholders in a way they want to be.
It means taking some risks but how do we take risks if we don’t even have the thinking time, and get into trial and error state ?
The best news is, we can eliminate some frictions from your workplace and free up a bit of time and redeploy as “thinking time”. It works for work but also can really help with home life too.
Attribution here to my Executive Coach Taki Moore for helping me understand ME and how I can perform better using these kinds of processes, which I’ve adopted into the worksheets.
Part 1 – We start with an overview and elect some ideas from the 80 / 20 Productivity Worksheet.
Here and here how it works.
- Select the best fit “design” for your workflow
- Identify what we can “eliminate”
- Select what we can change in the work “environment” to help you get more creative
- How can we “hack” the current tired processes and work toward those that are a better fit for you (what do you like best?)
- Start with small steps and “implement” some changes
Part 2 – Eliminate Friction from your workplace.
The fastest way to double your productivity is to eliminate friction from your workflow.
- First, list all the places where you experience friction
- Second, target your top 5
- Third, brainstorm strategies to replace friction with flow – use the 80:20 Productivity Toolkit as a menu to select from.
- Finally, list your first action for each to get you moving quickly.
Part 3 – Plan the Ideal Week Action Plan.
Now that you have a clear fix on your ideal week, set aside some time to make it happen
- First, brainstorm all the obstacles that make it hard to live this ideal week consistently
- Second, target the top 5 obstacles in the way
- Third, list 3 strategies that will overcome them
- Finally, list a next action that will get you winning fast
Part 4 – The last step is to determine if YOU are in control of the asylum!
You can run your week, or let your week run you.
Use this Ideal Week worksheet to design a week full of achievement and fulfilment. Your home life is entwined into this too.
- First, list the ideal ingredients of a perfect week
- Next, for each day decide if it’s a free, focus or buffer day
- Then, decide the purpose, who you would most like to spend the day with, and ideal result of the day
END RESULT – This is then your worked up ideal weekly work plan – and you will be amazed how much of your thinking time will be redirected to incubating some new innovative awesome marketing ideas!
The attached ideas, steps and simple to follow worksheets are typical of the style of hands on learning we engage in, with my on line workshops.
These are just some thought starters.
Having worked for large multinational companies in senior marketing roles for over 20 years, I’ve now fit my own mask and have now turned my skills to helping NFP marketers……
- Focus
- Create more thinking time
- Cut through the clutter
- Automate and outsource
and ultimately
- Get more bang for your buck !
This is for the organisation and for you, personally.
The above is some of the areas we focus on in Week 2 of my On Line Program.
In my 6 week on line program, I help you discover and start to unpack, a simple 5 Step Plan that increases your professional worth to your boss, whilst freeing up time for you to plan and execute new ideas for your Not-For-Profit organisation and review your future career prospects. Learning new skills is part of that.
My aim is to help Not-For-Profit Marketers become a Million Dollar Marketer on a NFP budget !
After having helped many hundreds of Not-For-Profit marketers really excel at their work in recent years, this 5 Step plan helps alleviate some of the frustrations and concerns that can shackle us down and to rise above, to think and act like a million dollar commercial marketer.
You can learn too.
As a taste, this week, we are giving away a FREE copy of the “5 Step Plan: Become a Million Dollar Marketer, on a Not-For-Profit budget” Blueprint. In it, I break down the exact 5-steps to deploy in your NFP business. Click here to download your free copy www.milliondollarnfpmarketer.com
Download the free worksheet images above and try the above for yourself, and let me know in the feedback box below how you went.
If you want all the details of the 6 week program, get the details here https://milliondollarnfpmarketer.com/5-step-program
It’s just $447 for x6 one hour webinars. We hold the at lunchtime and early evenings, mid week. Next intake is soon.
That’s the first step involved in becoming a Million Dollar Marketer on a Not-For-Profit budgetI hope you received some benefit from the above ideas, please drop me a comment and tell me what might have benefited you most.
Until next time, all the best.
Steve