The major factors decimating knowledge worker performance.

Your employees and executives participate in 25+ different types of internal and external meetings.

Losing time in too many or poorly managed meetings.

Your team is opening and engaging with collaboration tools over 200 times per day.

Endless technology and collaboration distraction.

There's a massive cost associated with shifting focus between various requests on their time.

They are context and task switching all day long. 

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A daily snapshot designed to help your team reflect on their workday and identify areas to reclaim wasted time.

Their feedback about their last workday and their readiness for the day ahead.

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Enable bottom-up changes in the way they work.

They can focus on building better habits that will deliver time back in their day.

Track their progress in the daily report.

Measure their success over time for every metric they track.

They can dig deep into their workflow to see every moment of their day.

View their workflow in timelines in their personal workspace and learn from peers in shared ones.

Get metrics for all of the apps they interact with.

See their trend data for time spent in meetings, virtual calls, and other forms of collaboration. 

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Their personal daily insights are for them alone.

They choose if and where they share their data with their team.

They know everything anyone can see about them.

They can start in a personal or shared workspace and tap into their workday in minutes.

At the end of the first day, we show them how they spend their time.

By the end of the first week they are able to start fixing their workflow.

Are you ready to supercharge your productivity and unlock your full potential? Say hello to laser-focused work sessions with the Pomodoro Technique Challenge.

By breaking your work into manageable intervals, you'll be more focused, less stressed, and surprisingly more productive. Take the Pomodoro Technique Challenge and see if this time management method works for you.

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It breaks work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. These intervals are known as "pomodoros," the Italian word for tomatoes, named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.


 Begin by selecting a task you want to work on.

 Set a timer for 25 minutes and commit to working on your task without any interruptions.

 Work on the task until the timer rings. If a distraction pops up, write it down and return to it later.

Once the timer goes off, mark one pomodoro, then take a short break (around 5 minutes). This is a crucial step to rest and refresh your mind.

 After the break, start another pomodoro. After four pomodoros, take a longer break (15-30 minutes) to recharge more significantly.

 Log into Produce8 and connect it with your daily work tools. This setup will help you measure your activities across different applications, offering a detailed perspective on your work habits.

 For newcomers to Produce8, allow the app to observe your typical workday activities for a week. This step is vital as it captures your existing work patterns, which will serve as a reference point for the Pomodoro challenge.

Begin using the Pomodoro Technique, setting a timer for 25 minutes of focused work followed by a 5-minute break. This process aims to cultivate a habit of intense focus followed by short periods of rest, aligning with the Pomodoro method's core principles.

Use the Sentiment feature in Produce8 to record your daily experiences and the effectiveness of the Pomodoro sessions. Note how each Pomodoro session impacts your focus and productivity, and aim to build a continuous streak of applying the Pomodoro Technique over a 30-day span.

At the halfway point, two weeks in, assess your progress using Produce8. Analyze your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to gauge the Pomodoro Technique's effect on your work efficiency and concentration, comparing it to your baseline data.

Continue, Iterate, or Adjust if Necessary: 

After the mid-period review, move forward with the second half of the challenge. Evaluate which elements of the Pomodoro Technique are most beneficial and identify any hurdles you've encountered. Employ the insights gained to fine-tune your approach, making adjustments to optimize the effectiveness of the Pomodoro sessions.

 After the 30-day challenge concludes, conduct a final review in Produce8. Examine your KPIs to assess the influence of the Pomodoro Technique on your productivity and work routines. Determine if there is tangible evidence that the technique has positively shaped your work habits and consider whether to permanently incorporate this method into your daily routine.

For more information about measuring the effectiveness of the Pomodoro Technique, 

Challenge Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are metrics used to assess the effectiveness of a specific challenge, such as the Pomodoro Technique Challenge. These KPIs help track progress, measure success, and identify areas for improvement. You can find all these metrics in Produce8. 

Clearly view each Pomodoro session and break in your timeline.

Expect a decline in interactions with non-essential apps.

Anticipate an increase in your focus score due to more deliberate, task-oriented work.

Your timeline will distinctly show each Pomodoro work block and break. Engagement with distracting apps should decrease, and when used, it should be more purposeful. Enhanced focus from dedicated work sessions should result in a higher focus score.


Pomodoro Technique Challenge Outcome 

Productivity is all about building healthy work habits, so if the Pomodoro technique has been useful, repeat the challenge and continue improving.

If the Pomodoro technique doesn’t work with your current work style or requirements, try some of the other productivity challenges.

Define specific work goals for your Pomodoro Technique challenge. Whether it's spending more time in your productive tools per day or decreasing your time context switching, Produce8 helps you set clear, achievable targets.

Measure your Pomodoro sessions and overall work trends effortlessly. Produce8 provides detailed insights into how you're spending your time and where you can make improvements.

Receive real-time feedback and encouragement as you progress through the challenge. Celebrate milestones, overcome obstacles, and stay motivated to reach your full potential.

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Monk Mode is a productivity approach where you deeply focus on your work by minimizing distractions, akin to the focused and minimalistic lifestyle of a monk. This mode involves dedicating extended periods to work intensely on a single task or project, often in isolation, to maximize productivity and quality of output.

With successful Monk Mode application, anticipate extended periods of focused app usage, minimal distractions from irrelevant apps, and better digital intensity and focus scores, all signaling increased productivity.


Monk Mode Challenge Outcome

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Time blocking is a time management method that involves dividing your day into blocks of time, with each block dedicated to accomplishing a specific task or group of tasks. This technique helps in organizing your day more efficiently, ensuring that you allocate time to important activities without the day slipping away into less productive tasks.

Effective time blocking will manifest as a well-structured timeline, fewer distractions from low-priority apps, and a higher focus score, demonstrating better productivity and focused work. These KPIs are crucial for assessing the effectiveness of your time management approach.

Time Blocking Challenge Outcome 

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The Adopting Asynchronous Video Meeting Challenge is an approach designed to enhance workplace flexibility and efficiency by shifting from traditional synchronous meetings to asynchronous video meetings. This challenge encourages teams to utilize video messages and recorded presentations as alternatives to live meetings, aiming to reduce the need for coordinating schedules across different time zones or disrupting deep work periods.

Successfully implementing the Adopting Asynchronous Video Meeting approach will lead to fewer hours spent in live meetings and enhanced productivity through the use of asynchronous communication methods.


Adopting Asynchronous Video Meeting Challenge Outcome

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Improve your employees' productivity and focus.

The major factors decimating knowledge worker performance.

Losing time in too many or poorly managed meetings.

Endless technology and collaboration distraction.

They are context and task switching all day long.

More effective workdays in less than 90 seconds of daily use

Promote self-awareness via personalized daily insights

Enable bottom-up changes in the way they work.

Tackle context and task switching

Productivity boosted with privacy-protected

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