#75🎉 The Productivity and Performance Toolkit
A summary of my favorite strategies to show up at work as your best self.
Welcome to Tech Atypically 👋, your weekly blog for navigating the challenges of ADHD and being in the tech industry.
I am an ADHD and product management coach helping you change one belief and take one action each week.
Part 18 of the Performance and Productivity series.
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🦋The Takeaways
Belief: I’m the problem.
Reality: I’m not broken, I work differently.
Action: Find the accommodation or strategy that fits you.
⭐️ Introduction
This is the final issue in the Productivity and Performance series. I started this series to provide practical ways for you to help keep and leave your job.
Over 18 weeks of writing about it, two unexpected things happened.
I learned to create my ideal work environment in confronting my past work performance challenges. I learned more about myself and how to best perform with my ADHD. It prepared me to take on my new job more confidently and build a new vision of how I want to help people with my coaching company Tech Atypically.
I found people to help build the new version of Tech Atypically. By more confidently explaining my vision, I met people to help me make it happen. I have new business partners and friends who will help me work at my best and create what works best for us all.
TLDR: The series taught me that by learning how best to show up at work, I increase my likelihood of meeting the people who need and support me.
I hope this series has taught you something unexpected too.
Today’s article is a “toolbox” to help you understand my favorite strategies and how to learn more about them. (That’s right it’s a clip show)
Productivity Strategies
Setting boundaries for yourself and inviting others to set boundaries with you makes everyone more productive. (Read More)
Overcome procrastination by focusing on being 1% better instead of being scared to be wrong. (Read More)
Guard “Yes” with your life to prevent burnout. (Read More).
Performance Strategies
Strategies for having less stressful 1 on 1s and more meaningful conversations with your manager. (Read More)
Learn to think of promotions as a system to navigate, instead of the thing you think you don’t deserve. (Read More)
Understanding if you have a learning disability helps you find the right tools to perform at your best. (Read More)
Money Strategies
Performance Improvement Plans (PIP) are the end of a bad story, not the end of your story.
You’re worth far more than you think when negotiating a salary and have the data to back it up. (Read More)
✨ Conclusion
Being productive doesn’t mean getting everything done. It means getting the most important things done and having the capacity and emotional regulation to get up and do it again tomorrow.
This issue isn’t as long as my others because I’m a solo dad for the next week. I’ve run out of time. I wanted to write more but need to go to bed even more. So I’m going to stop and go to bed.
So that tomorrow, I can get up, and be the best version of myself, my co-workers, my business partners, and my family need me to be. That’s productivity and performance to me.
🐼If you want to learn how to put these practices and more into your life, join me for our group coaching cohort starting June 20th.
⏭️Next Week
A new series entitled “Self-Care: Balancing Life, Work, and Side Hutles