Effective vs Efficient: the 80/20 of how you work.
From a live TESS coaching session with trainer Jamie Chambers · captions included
“Effective is doing the right things. Efficient is doing things the right way.”
From the 80/20 rule to the day's crispest distinction, and where a coach looks first: the diary and the prioritisation. These clips come from live sessions that feed into the CMI Coaching unit our learners complete.
Transcript
The concept is pretty simple: 20% of activity is what generates 80% of the outcome. It's not an exact science, but it's a great way of really focusing on the 20% that adds the most value. What's the difference, then, between being effective and being efficient? Being effective is doing the right things. Being efficient is doing things the right way.
I'm just talking from my experience here, but I think a lot of people are effective at work. I think they're working on the right things. Where people fall down is how efficient they are: they're not doing things the right way. And that's where coaching can help, looking at their diary, looking at the coachee's prioritisation and at how things can be done better. So that's the difference between the two, if it comes up: effective is doing the right things; efficient is doing things the right way.
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