Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2018

When a company needs a supervisor for a team, senior leaders often anoint the team’s most productive performer. Some of these stars succeed in their new role as manager; many others do not. And the failure can be personally costly for the new manager, causing them to doubt their skills, smarts, and future career path.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. One eagle-eyed fellow asked me this question, “How long was the time from T0 to T1?” ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .” I'm always off.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better. They create an environment that undermines focus.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever. Tim Wentworth, President Cigna Services, cites vigilant time management as one of the keys to his success as the leader of a major organization.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Going From Colleague to Boss Creates Common New Manager Challenges Not surprisingly, most new managers struggle to make the transition from the role of individual contributor to the role of people leader. 98% of new people managers feel they would benefit from new manager training. Sadly, many are inadequately prepared.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. That's a cultural change to self-managing teams.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here. Click here for the link.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that resource constraints can be a significant obstacle to unlocking the power of strategic prioritization at work and achieving your strategic objectives. High performing teams review goals and accountabilities , set clear priorities, and feel confident about managing their workload.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2018

How To Be a Good New Manager. Being a good new manager does not depend upon magic. While it is true that the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage others is not intuitive, those leadership attributes can be learned. Targeted to the critical few management scenarios and skills that matter most.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 15, 2022

This will help you practice being a consultant and improve your time management skills before graduation. Time Commitments in Graduate School. Many things vie for the time and attention of a graduate student. Time Commitments in Consulting. In academia, you exchange your time for research papers and projects.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 4, 2022

What if I told you that your greatest leadership challenge isn't what you think it is? As we began to work together, it became clear they didn't have the time management challenge they initially believed. There is no shortage of challenges and stress in leadership. But it doesn't. Let's take a closer look at why and how.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

So much depends upon managers. This is disconcerting because the same research found that about 70% of people in management roles are not well equipped for the job. Most companies understand the importance of having highly effective managers, but few invest heavily in training to help them get there.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. A critical piece of this work was gaining the buy-in of leadership to follow the established guidelines. Take the example of a biotech company.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

Fair managers can reap big dividends. In a recent paper , published at the Academy of Management Journal, we propose that one explanation is that many managers are, simply put, too busy to be fair. We also sought to understand what organizations could do to help overworked managers act more fairly.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We didn't address this as much because I wrote about this in Manage Your Project Portfolio. That debt is management decision debt. In the video, we offered several ideas, mostly about moving to rolling wave and just-in-time planning. Management Debt, Technical Debt, and Decision-Making. Long and large roadmaps.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership, or culture. We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Sabina Nawaz.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. A critical piece of this work was gaining the buy-in of leadership to follow the established guidelines. Take the example of a biotech company.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. You have plenty of company. How to Empower Employees to Make Better Decisions?

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Comatch

MAY 26, 2023

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. Take emotional intelligence, a critical component of the soft skills that underpin harmonious and productive relationships. Awesome, isn’t it?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

While hard skills such as data mining rank consistently high, the greatest skill gaps are in the areas of leadership, communication, collaboration and time management. What This Means. In general, technical skills, given the basic intelligence required, are a ticket to play the game and can be learned fairly quickly and easily.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

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Peter Stark

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Many managers truly believe that people stay with a company, or leave, based on their salary. Once you’ve identified important retention factors, take actions as a management team that support your employees, both professionally and personally. When possible, provide comp time after an extensive project. This is not the case.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

On-boarding, for example, is usually a one-off session in which reps are expected to absorb large amounts of information in a limited amount of time. They must learn how other functions affect, and are affected by, selling activities: for example, product management, marketing, pre-sale application support, and post-sale service.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? We have senior leadership teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. If we spend our entire workday sitting in meetings and answering emails, it leaves little space in our minds to do the hard thinking that is essential to good decision making and leadership. Analyze where your time is best spent. You and Your Team Series.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 23, 2018

The following are some of the most common responses: Lack of time: When managers are so busy putting out the fire of the moment, there is almost never time to communicate information about situations that have not happened yet because they are always trying to survive in the moment. So What’s the Impact?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In intervention stores, store managers who chose to participate committed to trying out the two changes above, plus five additional changes: Giving a core team of associates a “soft guarantee” or 20 or more hours a week. Managers could also use the app to post additional shifts. The results were striking. We hope not.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

So goes the manager’s punch list for check-ins with direct reports. If this sort of time crunch sounds familiar, you are not alone. It wasn’t long after becoming a manager that I found I had landed on a seemingly endless treadmill of meetings. With the clock ticking, what could Julie do? Scan the memo?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Four mistakes in particular come up again and again. The office kitchen.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings. I realized that what I needed was a practical way to get more work done without taking more time. On these days, I’m 10 times more productive. I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days.

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