Productivity management: applying it personally and professionally.

Productivity management is a major step in analyzing and documenting our professional tasks. Defining ratios, measuring, and evaluating are the first steps in accounting to consumers, employees, government bodies, and ourselves for our resources and services. Self-evaluation with empirical productivity data can provide the key information necessary for growth and change in the individual and, in turn, in the organization. Professional productivity management can be a managerial tool essential in documenting our professional worth. The significance of productivity management to the individual and her/his career needs to be self-examined by every dietetic professional. Well-defined goals and documented accomplishments are important, if not essential, to our existence as a profession. We can no longer afford not to accept the responsibility to manage and improve our professional lives.