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Better People Leader Time Management

LSA Global

Does Your Organization Need Better People Leader Time Management? Have you ever gone through the popular new manager training exercise of logging how you actually spend your time day each day as a people leader? This is often the first step in learning how to better manage your time and be a more effective leader.

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Track Your Time for 30 Days. What You Learn Might Surprise You.

Harvard Business

Inspired by a colleague, the time management expert Laura Vanderkam , I decided to spend the month of February tracking exactly how I spent my time, down to half-hour increments. In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language. At the same time, you need to be aware of unexpected opportunities to exercise your soft skill muscles in new ways.

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Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss” — and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership

Harvard Business

We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., We combined data across these 30 independent studies to examine the relationship between personality and ethical leadership across a range of different settings and situations. Remember that modesty is the best policy.

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Urgent vs. Important – How to Sort Through the Noise

Women in Consulting

As consultants we often face an overwhelming volume of data, to-do items, and just general communication. This concept was actually introduced by then-President Eisenhower, but it shows up as part of many time management systems.) By: Kim Wasson. Here’s what it looks like: The Basics. By: Kim Wasson.

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Research: Millennials Think About Work Too Much

Harvard Business

In a previous study , our data science team at Happify found that people in their twenties and early thirties are in a relatively negative state of mind. We decided to harness the power of big data to answer this question. Marion Barraud for HBR. What’s causing Millennials so much angst? We extracted 80 different topics.

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96% of U.S. Professionals Say They Need Flexibility, but Only 47% Have It

Harvard Business

Our data tells a clear and quantifiable story about the gap between the supply and demand of workplace flexibility, but we also wanted to understand the impact of that gap on the U.S. The most-needed kind of flexibility was location-based flexibility. workforce at large. Productivity.

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