{"id":13923,"date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/post\/deep-work-digging-deep-to-unleash-your-workplace-super-power_columbus\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T00:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:14:45","slug":"deep-work-digging-deep-to-unleash-your-workplace-super-power_columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/deep-work-digging-deep-to-unleash-your-workplace-super-power_columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Work: Digging Deep to Unleash your Workplace Super Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
In today\u2019s digitally-driven workplace, distractions are an employee\u2019s kryptonite. Email, cell phones, and social media inhibit workers daily from reaching their full potential.<\/p>\n
These kinds of distractions can bring even the strongest, most dedicated employees down, and keep them from completing their best work.<\/p>\n
Do you know, according to \u201cDeep Work\u201d by Cal Newport<\/a>:<\/p>\n This means the average knowledge worker is either working only 25 hours a week or is (most likely) working a lot of overtime to get work completed, and also find time to respond to work-related emails.<\/p>\n Email isn\u2019t the only thing killing productivity — distractions of all kinds pose a certain risk. It takes about 23 minutes for the average worker to get into a productive state, which can be sustained for several hours without a break.<\/p>\n However, just one brief distraction can completely destroy this productive state. On average, employees are interrupted once every three minutes, and a total of 400 times a day, by stopping to take a phone call, chat with a coworker who has stopped to say hello, incoming text message, etc.<\/p>\n Small distractions like a Facebook notification or a Slack message may seem exactly that \u2013 trivial and insignificant. However, they ultimately cost businesses a lot \u2013 around 28 billion wasted hours and $650 billion a year<\/a>, in fact. And for the U.S. economy, that all together accounts for a $1 trillion loss.<\/p>\n So how do we overcome the evil of workplace distractions and get our best work done?<\/p>\n Fortunately, you don\u2019t need to be bitten by a radioactive spider or be born on Krypton to rescue the workplace from certain destruction. \u201cDeep Work\u201d \u2013 a term coined by Cal Newport in his book of the same name \u2013 is the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks. It’s a common practice that is here to save the day.<\/p>\n Seen as a modern-day superpower, Deep Work allows a practitioner to thrive in the new economy by helping them master hard things, and produce at an elite level in terms of both quality and speed.<\/p>\n But in a society plagued with distraction, how does one master Deep Work and unleash their professional superpower? Here are five ways:<\/p>\n Determine the habits that you need to break. You can do this easily by measuring where you spend your time and how you communicate.<\/p>\n\n
Introduction to Deep Work<\/h2>\n
#1 – Measure Where You Are:<\/h3>\n