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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the third article of this series, you will learn about personal experience questions that demand a different approach from motivation questions. In the next article, we will dissect these kinds of tricky questions!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

Both strategies can actually diminish your ability to recharge and replenish during the day, which can be a detriment to your work. Instead, this article offers new tips for how to balance work and meetings and suggests questions you can ask yourself when planning your day.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 25, 2023

Additionally, it can be leveraged for personal growth, enhanced learning, improved time management and overall, the quality of our lives. Pragmatic Business Applications of ChatGPT: Content Creation: Publishing articles, posts on social media posts, various marketing materials and developing courses and events.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Maybe you’re even reading this article to do so. In becoming hyperaware of how I spent my time, I noticed something: I procrastinated a lot more often than I had originally thought. To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Staying Focused.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

What’s more, we have seen the number of attendees per meetings increase by 12.5%, our time spent in meetings increase by 5%, and fragmented time (blocks of time to work shorter than two hours) increase by 23%. Be intentional with your time. The key here is not falling into the trap of meetings.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All of which are very relevant to the work I do today, the products I create, and the articles and tips I share on my newsletter ( [link] ). Instead of trying to master a hundred or a thousand different strategies, Chet recommends zeroing in on just the few essential skill areas that make the big difference. Hiring superstars.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Business organisations and management consultants have long had a contractual rather than an employer/employee relationship. In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Time to read a book that changes our world view. Time to write an article that challenges someone’s thinking. Time to create something remarkable that solves a problem or delights an audience. We each have a choice about how we spend our time.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The author offers five strategies to help you mitigate the crunch: 1) Anticipate and ask if you suspect a recurrent request is heading your way; 2) Commit to your PTO; 3) Clarify what you’re being asked to do; 4) Reprioritize your commitments; and 5) Look for ways to prevent next year’s scramble.

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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. I gave several talks about that article. 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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Brooks is a bestselling author, Harvard University professor, and a widely read columnist for The Atlantic, whose writing draws from both science and philosophy and is aimed at providing insight and strategies on how we can live our best lives.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2023

In this piece, the authors outline four strategies for right sizing the workload on your team. In short, after a layoff, more is being asked of people who have less to give. This is a recipe for disaster when it comes to burnout and retention of key talent.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As a time management coach, I’ve coached many creative idea people and coached many people managed by creative idea people. Based on that experience, here are some helpful strategies for managing up when your boss gets distracted by too many creative ideas. Explain the Time Commitment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2022

Five strategies to help you cut back.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2022

Six strategies to help you set boundaries without burning bridges.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Over half of Americans leave some vacation time on the table. As a time management coach, I’ve observed that pre-vacation work stress typically falls into two buckets: completing work before your departure and being away from the office. Both of these categories can trigger guilt and even fear. Plan ahead.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one. Time management issues. Almost everyone with an incipient side hustle will cite lack of time as a key reason their venture hasn’t gotten off the ground — though it’s rarely the real reason. Focusing on the wrong first steps.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We’d all like to spend our time at work on high-value activities: setting strategy, fostering innovation, mentoring promising employees, and more. Another technique, for those who prefer an incremental approach, is the “small drip strategy.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2021

Five strategies to help you stop overloading your workday.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In order to reach these objectives, you need to ensure you’ve aligned your time with them as well. Team Building Articles. I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items. I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Four strategies to help you convince yourself.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

This article has a very useful 2×2 matrix on deciding which goals and tasks to prioritize, elevate, delegate, or tolerate.) Which strategies work? I looked back at several HBR articles on the topic of saying no, and here’s what I found. The smartest ones are constantly reprioritizing their to-do lists.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2017

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. The article also highlights the risks of foregoing vacation in terms of impulsiveness, poor concentration, and negativity. First, make the business case. Don’t ignore it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As a time management coach, I believe the best option is the final one — finding an in-between solution where you keep up on the essentials but avoid putting the full weight of multiple jobs on your shoulders. These six strategies can help you strike that delicate balance. Or is there an answer in between? Accept reality.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2020

Six strategies.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. This article outlines two common signals that manager work habits unintentionally send to their teams, their impact, and recommendations for lessening unintended consequences.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Through my own experience and in my work coaching clients on time management, I’ve seen that there often is a strong correlation between poor time management, working longer hours, and feeling stressed. Once you have these practical strategies in place, the final element is emotional.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Pausing to consider what needs to be removed from your schedule takes time. Here are a few strategies that can help you streamline your schedule and build in room to complete your new goals and resolutions. In many work environments, tasks and projects get piled on without any clear sense of priorities or time capacity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. Having strategies for making quicker decisions can help too. So, what can you do?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Five strategies can help.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. In time I became emboldened and let them know what I was doing — at the time, focusing on my book manuscript. Discuss your strategy with close colleagues and your boss. Step 2: Retrain Others.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

After reading hundreds of studies, interviewing dozens of experts, and running the gambit of self-experiments (including attending meditation retreats and slogging through a monthlong period of self-induced boredom), I learned that countless strategies can help us mitigate distraction. I personally do this for most articles I write.

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