These tricks were published on the Harvard Business School website.
Choose a quiet and comfortable working environment
The environment you work in has a huge impact on your productivity. Working in a place that is uncomfortable, noisy or distracting will significantly affect your productivity.
So try to have, for example, two quiet hours in the daily schedule of your team, during which people can work on important tasks.
Learn unitasking
While multitasking is the ability to work on more things at once, unitasking is the skill of focusing as much as possible on just one task at any given time. While people often brag about the art of multitasking, there is really not much to brag about: it is more of a myth which, in fact, only means jumping from one thing to another and back again.
Learn to focus fully on one task and don't allow anything to distract you from important work.
Do not be afraid to take breaks
Productivity and breaks do not go together. Or do they? Paradoxical as it may sound, breaks are necessary for your brain to take a rest from work, regain its strength and then carry on working again.
Therefore, do not be afraid of breaks: on the contrary, deliberately schedule them, for example by using the pomodoro technique, whereby you work in 40-minute stints and then always take a 10-minute break.
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