Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Executives need to own up to their role in creating the workplace stress that leads to burnout—heavy workloads, job insecurity, and frustrating work routines that include too many meetings and far too little time for creative work. Weak time-management disciplines. The same is true for employee burnout.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

” Rhythm can also help lead you through your time. If this sort of approach sounds appealing to you, here are some ideas based on my own life and work with time management coaching clients that I’ve seen to align your time with your energy, interests, and goals. Rhythm can lead visitors through your design.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

As a time management coach, I’ve found that these reactions happen because one of the main keys to managing your own time is managing expectations with others. But it’s an expectation that we can’t always meet, especially when we’re trying to get work done. Reduce time pressure.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

Burkeman looks at time management in a wholly different way – helping to go beyond the usual advice (don’t sweat the small stuff, get focused, be productive, use a diary and a to-do-list etc), and presents techniques suited to the modern always-on age. Spoiler alert: we only have around 4,000 weeks to live a full and satisfying life.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items. But in the past, time for professional development goals was usually slotted in around other work responsibilities, like coaching calls with my time management clients.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

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. Calling an airline to change seat assignments for the following day while you are in all-day meetings.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

For working parents with school-age children, this time of year is especially chaotic. But here’s the good news: There are effective ways to manage the overwhelming demands of drop-off, homework, and parent-teacher conferences while still delivering and succeeding at work. Invest your time where it matters most.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

That might sound daunting — and it does take work — but mindlessly performing tasks (think about slogging through emails or conducting meetings on autopilot) is a recipe for inefficiency, disengagement, and even poor health. One of the most effective tactics for staying on task is to bring purpose to each moment of your work.

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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.” Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. The Magic of 30-Minute Meetings. Pick a time, and stick to it. million jobs were lost.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

You can dictate how long you’ll be away from your work based on deadlines, but even as little as 10 minutes meeting some tangible non-work-related goal can anchor you. Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that. It’s an inarguable fact.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

Here’s the challenge: networks often seem to grow during after-hours activities, like after-work drinks, weekend off-sites, or far-away conferences. How do you meet new people if traveling to conferences is out of the question? And that poses a problem for most working parents. Practice introductions.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Conference Board’s “Executive Coaching Survey” (2018): This survey found that 68% of organizations use internal coaching programs, and 47% use external coaching programs. It requires guidance, support, and accountability, fostering growth, development, and time-management. Anybody can coach poorly.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

On Friday, while I was sitting in on a four-hour conference call in a windowless meeting room, I couldn’t pretend that I wasn’t miserable. Are you considering buying tickets to that glitzy conference because you feel you should be networking, when what you really want to do is be at your daughter’s soccer game?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I hate meetings. And what do most meetings usually result in? You guessed it — more meetings. When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings. When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings. Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

Back-to-back meetings, a constant stream of conference calls, and obligatory break room chitchat make it next to impossible to complete important tasks. Working remotely, on the other hand, “gives you the time and space to concentrate without distractions,” Bloom says. “Face time in the office is important.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Doodle: Oh, to see the end of email threads ensnarling us in long, painful conversations about how to schedule that group conference call! Doodle eliminates those threads by polling people on their available call or meeting windows, so you can arrive at a mutually convenient time without endless back-and-forth.

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