Active Distraction Defense

Description

Protect thinking time to unlock your team’s Awe Sum.

Key Benefits:

1. Improved Focus:
   Eliminate impromptu messages and minimize meetings for much more time to remain focused on the task at hand.
2. Rapid Innovation:
   More time to focus lends to added time to think differently about the problem and be more creative with solutions.
3. Compounding Leverage:
   A trusted workforce with everything they need to do the job to their high standard is a happier workforce. A happier workforce tends to work on process improvements that boost productivity in fewer man hours.

Why have an Active Distraction Defense?

Does every off-site person you add beyond yourself at least quintuple (5x) your productivity because you’re a respected and cherished leader? Does everyone take ownership of their work such that everyone can work decreasing hours for the same productivity?

Case Studies

Coaching: a speaking coach with one remote assistant was using additional offshore services to research opportunities for their clients, at a rate of 50 opportunities to pitch per month with their best efforts, requiring whole work weeks to facilitate. They discovered they were averaging 50 pitches per success per client – and this was a problem because they wanted more than 1 client and the offshore service was costing the same per month as they were charging that 1 client. Patricia developed a process which reduced working hours to a fraction of one hour per week, that produced 10,000+ opportunities every month with a one-time expense. This ultimately saved the agency, bringing it from the brink of collapse to profitable inside a few weeks.

Professional provider: a social media strategist with a small team of 6 across 6 time zones was spending more than 80% of their day handling or recovering from constant instant messages from the team – typically 200-300 per worker per day. Patricia developed a process without adding meetings which reduced needed messages to 10 or less per day. This enabled the strategist to close 5x as many clients in the 2nd week of implementation, onward – because the work capacity for everyone just increased too.

Creative: an inventor whose facilities are spread across a large campus was the only person who knew what was going on between departments, spending more than 80% of their day fielding or recovering from interdepartmental queries, largely from Sales and Accounts. Patricia developed a process which eliminated Sales and Accounts queries requiring immediate attention, delegating all of the remaining queries actually requiring the inventor’s attention to emails totaling less than 10 minutes of handling daily. This enabled the inventor to take on a large government contract and participate in public relations activities.

Investment: $200 with Values Compass on account

You might also want to consider packages which include the Values Compass:

• Awesome Performance Evaluation – a 90-day deep dive into your overall marketing, finance, and process strategies. $900
• Active Distraction Defense + Values Compass – quick-start package to focus on team systems solutions. $400