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

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

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

DECEMBER 30, 2016

For example, maybe they tell themselves that they need to read a pile of books in order to learn more, keep up with their colleagues, or just stay up-to-date with their industry. For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

You’re double booked. It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. The first is to define how you want to prioritize your time when professional and personal commitments collide. Time split.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Environment.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

I was feeling overwhelmed after spending the fall launching a new book and was finally turning to the litany of tasks I’d neglected in its wake. 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

JULY 26, 2017

The angel on the other side pipes up, imploring you to aim for focus, strategy, meaning, and impact instead. For example, registering for a conference or event, adding it to your calendar, and booking the hotel and flight — on their own each of these things may not take much time, but taken together, they all add up.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Use a few minutes in a team meeting to share some of the research on the benefits of vacation. A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. Take advantage of that creativity by scheduling an extra-long meeting with the person a few days after vacation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Author a book? Attend a strategy summit? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. These instruments play a vital role in acquisitions, new products and features, and even the new divisions of business you’d like to deploy. Should you speak at that event? You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

My goal was to see if by interrupting my daily behavior I could change my “default settings” and have more time for deep, focused work. My book-reading skyrocketed. In a month, I read more books than I had in the combined three months prior. This proved to be a very effective strategy for me.

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