The phrase "a productive step" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action or measure that is expected to yield positive results or progress in a particular situation.
Example: "Implementing a new training program is a productive step towards improving employee performance."
Alternatives: "a beneficial move" or "a constructive action".
As I write, there is legislation quietly making its way through Congress that could take a very productive step towards creating a tax code that supports entrepreneurship.
A further productive step will be to use the growing capacity to perform CHMI trials in malaria endemic populations as a possible model to better understand the mechanisms of NAI and to enable vaccine assessment in target populations.
Berlin Geekettes takes a positive and productive step by initiating helpful actions to create a gender balance in the tech sphere.
Mr. Brown called the announcement a "positive and productive step".
The NUJ organiser wrote: "We are hopeful you will see this as a positive and productive step in the long-term development of BuzzFeed UK. "Your staff are very keen to emphasise they all enjoy working for BuzzFeed UK, and believe in building a sustainable business with you".
With neither President Mahinda Rajapaksa's regime nor the Tamil political parties being able to agree on any productive steps that can be taken to ensure reconciliation, the government is now facing a third U.S.-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
That gave the wife an opportunity to take a productive next step, suggesting the two of them talk to her mother.
Ecological assessments that consider resistance, resilience, and facilitation actions during scenario planning is a productive first step towards effective climate change planning for biodiversity with broad applicability to many regions of the world.
Harlow thinks a productive first step in addressing reparations would be to entertain HR40 -- a bill to study proposals for reparations that U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich).
