Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Employees are based out of a company office, but they can work at a location of their choosing for some portion of their time. TravelLite: minimal travel. Employees have minimal to no travel, with a maximum of 10% travel annually (2–4 days per month or its annual equivalent). Employees work on a part-time schedule.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

Your important priorities might relate to: enacting your values (for example, volunteering or spending more time with your children). averting disasters (scheduling an annual checkup at the doctor or creating a crisis management protocol for your business). Anticipate and Manage Feelings of Anxiety.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. Certain positions require more travel or more work outside of normal business hours. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. Job constraints.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For example, you might say, “I want to manage large projects. I’m willing to sprint for short periods of time to ensure that everything works. Though he was working tirelessly to get a business off the ground, he reduced his schedule to spend time with their son while Brittney was at the office — and vice versa.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Spurred on by the internet revolution in the early 2000s, the company added verticals such as real estate, the bridal industry, travel, beauty salons, and restaurants. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice. If you’re the manager of a small team with limited resources, take a moment to reflect on the following productivity techniques and remember that your job as a leader is to facilitate outcomes, not just the illusion of them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. While some aspects of care clearly require doctor and patient to be in the same place at the same time, many demonstrably don’t.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Mary sought care at a large academic medical center with multiple entrances and towers; at times she was expected to travel long distances due to the sheer size of the facility. Mary faced an additional set of challenges once she got to the hospital. They would seek out patterns and aim to define the real problem at hand.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

Travel Association’s Project: Time Off, last year 54% of Americans left unused vacation time on the table, amounting to 662 million days that could have been used to make them less stressed — and more productive. This back-to-work email dread is very powerful. According to the most recent study by the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. That allows the sales associates to focus on serving customers rather than wasting time and energy managing transactions.

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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. Use business travel wisely.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In corporate travel, extending a business trip for personal purposes is known as “bleisure,” an awkward term that’s only saving grace is that it’s less awful than the alternative, “bizcation.” To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

But if you used Evernote, all your notes would be in one place, because Evernote makes it easy to collect and organize your notes, whether they consist of the first draft you typed directly into an Evernote note, a business card you snapped and stored (so it’s now text searchable) or an online article you’ve clipped.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

Because of this, some might put off their time away, figuring they’ll get to it when their schedule isn’t so demanding, only to discover at the end of the year that they haven’t used up their paid time off.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. Before I started using Untouchable Days, I treaded water — I wrote articles, I gave speeches. Hayon Thapaliya/DUCEPT Pascal/ hemis.fr/Getty Getty Images. I hate meetings. They sit subconsciously in my brain, taking up space. I prepare for them in my notebooks.

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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? And it could make your employees happier, thanks to greater flexibility and less travel time.

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