Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Having a meeting-free day. Establishing one day with no meetings is a technique that I used throughout 2016 to complete a book proposal and write the manuscript for my third book. It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. A meeting-free day isn’t the best option for everyone.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

There it is in your inbox: a meeting invite to a meeting you really don’t want to attend. Or it’s for a time that’s already booked, and now you’re left to decide whom to turn down. Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2018

” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” Question 1: Am I meeting expectations? For people who have a well-defined job scope, answering this question may be easy: Did you meet the project milestones?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Whatever the case may be, you might find yourself with some time before you begin consulting. This article is not discouraging taking some necessary time off to rest, relax, and recuperate. This is your chance to try something new, meet new people, and enjoy your time. How best should you use it?

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The Management Centre

JULY 31, 2023

These new skills allow for a more confident approach, better interactions with others, utilising tools or techniques with more efficiency and / or effectiveness, new ways of working or even enabling learning in others. For example, if your colleague is late to every meeting, sending them on a time management course might not cut it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week. For the purposes of this article, I’m assuming that as a manager, you’ve assigned these tasks fairly , and the employee in question isn’t actually burdened with too many non-promotable tasks.). You and Your Team Series. Whitney Johnson.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s hard to know if we’re really making efficient use of our time. But are we spending our time on the right things? 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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Meetings Take Half as Long. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When she was promoted to manager of a new team, she immediately dug into the new product she was assigned, as well as her team members’ work. Sveta had a keen attention to detail and placed a high value on being efficient. Therefore, she didn’t waste much time or words when talking with her team.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Effective time management involves an ongoing and regular process of organising your schedule so that time is allocated to all of the important aspects of your life.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Successful professionals get them all the time: plaintive emails from long-ago colleagues, or college friends — or even those friends’ adult children — seeking “an hour of your time” or a chance to “pick your brain” or an offer to “buy you a cup of coffee.” Share resources.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Even if you think you already delegate effectively to an extent, I bet you have room for even greater efficiency and resulting peace of mind, whether on the home or work front. Calling an airline to change seat assignments for the following day while you are in all-day meetings. The skill is learning how to delegate.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

Instead of telling your boss and colleagues that you’ll be “out of the office tomorrow afternoon,” explain that “I’ll be leaving the office tomorrow afternoon for two hours for a parent-teacher meeting at Brandon’s school. Invest your time where it matters most.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Note that in highly effective organizations it is not a perk that the most-productive folks get the best staff; it simply is the most efficient way to structure workflow. The point of delegating is to economize with your time. Minimize time spent in meetings, but not to the point that you need to have the same conversation twice.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Periodically, a client and accountant would meet, review financial materials and status and, at the end of the encounter, make an appointment for the next meeting. Increasingly, in-person accountant visits have been replaced by phone or web meetings and do-it-yourself software like TurboTax. Less Time, Better Care.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

How do you meet new people if traveling to conferences is out of the question? Use their social media profiles for updates on their life you can use as a reason to connect, or take the 30 seconds to pass along a quick note when an article, video, or anything else brings that person up in your mind. Explore the fringes of your network.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Not only does working from home eliminate your commute, which for most people is “total wasted time,” but it also “allows you to be more focused and efficient.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently. That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and running.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I was much more efficient at responding to all of the requests that come my way—rather than have metered out conversations trickling through the day, I buckled down, opened up new browser tabs for each meaningful mention or request, and whipped through it. There’s only so much sustained reading and commenting that I can do.

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