Can you envision your productivity increasing by making the commitment to do your personal best during the next 30 days? What would happen to you personally, professionally and even organizationally?

There is a video clip on the Internet from the movie Facing the Giants. In a few minutes, you can see what happens when one is committed to doing his or her personal best. The negative self imposed limitations and all that brain trash noise is gone and personal achievement beyond what the individual can ever envision remains.

Yet, research suggests that most people within the workplace and probably even at home are doing far less than their personal best. Some research suggest that any where from two thirds to three quarters of those within the workplace are not engaged on the job. The end result of all this is a dramatic decrease in productivity and that affects everybody’s bottom line.

To do your personal best begins by how you define productivity. When we look the original source for the word productivity, we learn it comes from two Latin words: forward and lead. If we now define productivity using these two words, we understand productivity is really about each individual leading themselves forward.

When we embrace this definition, we can better see the relationships between productivity and business ethics or work ethics if you prefer. How you lead yourself has a lot to do with your own ethics and beliefs. If you believe it is OK to play video games on the company’s time, then improving productivity from the management’s perspective is going to be very, very difficult.

PopCaps recent release of research showed the upper level work collar executives actually waste more time playing video games during working hours than those they managed. And, many of them believe it is OK. I wonder how many believe that they can increase the productivity of those they manage when they themselves are not demonstrating their personal best?

Improving productivity does absolutely mean giving your personal best at all times. If you truly want productive employees, have them take the time to define productivity for themselves and then what it means to give their personal best. You may even want to show the entire movie Facing the Giants, if not just the short clip.

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