Whether it's simply the weekend or you're taking a planned break, how you spend your downtime can be key to staying productive in the longterm. To be successful at work also means being intentional about the way you spend your time outside of work too.

Ask yourself — how did you spend your last few evenings, weekends, or holidays? Does your downtime help you to build the career that you want?

If you're wondering, how does my downtime impact my work performance, take some inspiration from the way successful people view their downtime:

An investment - One of your best investments is in figuring out what recharges you. But the last thing you want to do is waste your downtime trying to figure out how to make the most of it. Get to know what works for you. Think about activities that slow you down and leave you feeling revived and fully reminding of your driving passion, your 'why'. This improves the quality of your downtime. Slowing down and avoiding burn out enables us to be more effective, ...

For any organisation, effective communication is essential to your team, division and organisation's productiveness and success.

So, why is poor communication so common? We tend think about poor communication as a momentary setback. However, poor communication disrupts business on a fundamental level.

The five big costs of communication failure in the workplace:

1. Failure of focus: In an organisation where communication is not prioritised, meetings are inefficient and ineffective, little gets accomplished and so more meetings get scheduled, leaving team members feeling overbooked, under-informed and potentially unhappy.

2. Lack of purpose: The inability to communicate well on a daily basis can be symptomatic of a larger communication disruption. If an organisation can’t communicate its vision, then employees may be lacking direction and purpose.

3. Loss of innovation: When it comes to advancing new ideas within an organisation, ineffective communication between employees has an accumulat...

1.     Being on time

2.     Work ethic

3.     Effort

4.     Body language

5.     Energy

6.     Attitude

7.     Passion

8.     Being coachable

9.     Doing extra

10.   Being prepared

If you can take on just one of these that you don’t currently commit to, people will notice.

You are people.

You will feel good about it.

Let me know how you go.