How and where you spend your energy can make or break your productivity and culture.
All too often, we allow our pride to convince us that we can handle everything on our own if we just work harder, longer hours. Not only is this incorrect, it’s damaging. When you try to wear all the hats at all times, you (1) position yourself to experience workplace burnout, (2) produce inferior quality work, and (3) lower your capacity to fulfill your primary role. Lowered energy leads to lowered capacity. And lowered capacity leads leads the business to hire more people to complete the same amount of work. This results in productivity and profitability losses.
This Energy Allocation exercise helps you focus on performing roles that you do well and choosing the best time of day to do them. You will decide which time of day is best for each type of work. Then, you can construct your weekly schedule based on those observations.