LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Business leaders are recognizing how very much soft skills matter in improving business performance: Biggest Skill Gaps: Every year LinkedIn analyzes its data to predict the 10 skills that will be most in demand by employers.

Emotional Intelligence 34

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Comatch

MAY 26, 2023

And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language. Neuroplasticity means that your physical brain cells change as you develop new neural pathways through learning. Awesome, isn’t it?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

Unfortunately, managers typically have very limited visibility into what their own behaviors may be signaling to their team and how the team might be reacting. We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. .”

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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

AUGUST 28, 2018

To help professionals assess how well they are doing on each aspect of productivity, I created a tool called the Pozen Productivity Rating, in conjunction with Trefis, a data analytics company. Both will go a long way toward helping you achieve your goals. This tool consists of 21 questions, divided into seven categories.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

But on going through your prep materials, I realized that understanding the problem through some cursory data gathering was the key to laying out a sound structure for the case. Just keep that in mind from a time-management standpoint. One caveat to this. So that's my thought of the day -- The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

In contrast, recent data shows a decrease in productivity by remote workers. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

We predicted that a flexibility gap would exist, and our results validated that hypothesis: 96% of employees said they need flexibility, yet only 47% reported having access to the types of flexibility they need — a gap of 54%. This gap is even more pronounced for women, only 34% of whom have access to the flexibility they need.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

Our main thesis was that as managers’ workloads increase, they are more likely to prioritize work tasks focused on supporting the functioning of the organization’s technical core (e.g., Using these three independent data sources, we found that bosses with heavier (vs.

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LSA Global

APRIL 13, 2018

You are not alone…many managers, including experienced managers, struggle as coaches for all the above reasons. And, even more alarming, our employee engagement data tells us that less than 25% of direct reports believe coaching from their manager is making a positive impact on their performance. Coaching Matters.

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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. The Data-Driven Case for Vacation. How to Negotiate for Vacation Time. Or is there an answer in between?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

So goes the manager’s punch list for check-ins with direct reports. They are: “State of play” memos : Ask reports to email you a strategic agenda before you meet, so you can prioritize one or two areas to tackle during the meeting. With the clock ticking, what could Julie do? Scan the memo?

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

PACE teaches communication, time management, decision making, problem solving, and financial literacy through weekly group sessions in the workplace. We then computed return on investment by combining our impact estimates with data on programmatic costs.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

“It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” ” Rather than haranguing a worker for a late financial report, sit down and create a specific schedule for deliverables. Give her guidance on where you want her to emphasize her time, and also how long something should take.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

For example, the New York Times reported their demise 10 years ago.) Yes, there was a time when most working Spaniards took a two-hour break beginning around 2 PM, allowing them to go home for lunch, be with their family, relax, and even snatch a cat nap on the sofa. Siestas are already a thing of the past.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

It’s all about data these days. To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Here are a few techniques I suggest to help them shrink the amount of time they spend on grunt work, while still getting it done: Impose constraints: If an employee is filling her days with low-level tasks that could be completed in much less time, impose a time constraint. Morning email needs to be answered by 10am.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

We isolated data on how far in advance of flight women and men book their travel. One is that women, anticipating the higher stress they report having while traveling, tend to be more organized in an effort to offset their anticipated travel stress. But what about when planning travel? million flight bookings in 2014.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Managers’ bias was measured by how much more quickly they categorized words when North African–sounding names and negative adjectives were categorized on the same side of the screen. Once we had this information, we were able to analyze this data along with a variety of worker performance measures.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Thanks to this service, the company has surpassed Google in the efficacy of its route-planning suggestions in and around Jakarta: Tens of thousands of motorcyclists navigate back roads and side streets to avoid traffic, all the while sweeping up copious amounts of GPS data. This seems to be a strange situation. “‘Why us?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. As those downs become easier to report, physicians are alerted to more symptoms. Getting the right data to the right recipient. Everyone has ups and downs in how they feel.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The Data-Driven Case for Vacation. How to Negotiate for Vacation Time. Ask your direct reports for a recap. Telling people she was reachable, however, would only invite them to contact her — and expect a reply. You and Your Team Series. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan. Ed O’Brien.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Below I’ve put together a list of tips to help leaders of all kinds be deliberate with their choices, based largely on my years advising startup founders on product, marketing, and management at Google Ventures — and my subsequent work studying and experimenting with personal time-management techniques for my book Make Time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

You have no idea where to find the data you need, because your analytics staffers are off the grid. It could be handling those expense reports that accounting has been hounding you for, or writing a recommendation letter for your former intern, or updating your LinkedIn profile.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. Because there is a time constraint, you can’t spend too much time looking for the perfect answer or sorting through irrelevant data.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Finally, Amazon is nothing if not data-driven. If the experiment is successful, arrangements like these could help reshape Amazon’s workplace culture by sending a clear signal that performance is more important than face time. This could reduce the costs associated with turnover.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

International Coach Federation (ICF) Research: The ICF conducts extensive research on coaching, and their studies have found that 70% of individuals who received coaching reported improved work performance, communication skills, and productivity. This becomes more important than the reporting structure and authority of the manager.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Female managers are concentrated in fields that emphasize people-centered caring skills, while men are concentrated in fields dealing with production-centered skills.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Specifically, employees who worked long hours (typically more than 40 hours a week), but who did not obsess about work, did not have increased levels of RMS and reported fewer health complaints than employees who demonstrated workaholism. We found that both types of workaholics reported more psychosomatic health complaints (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

” Track your time to give yourself an accurate baseline. There’s some evidence from research comparing time tracking data to self-reports that people who say they work very long hours are generally overestimating. I can handle those emotions and make adjustments as needed.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

She gave me the data I needed to complete the task, and the world didn’t fall apart when she left at 6 p.m. Nearly half, or 46% of the human resource leaders surveyed, reported that employee burnout accounts for 20-50% of their companies’ annual employee turnover.

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