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Two Reflection Exercises to Help You Work Smarter

Successful Independent Consulting

Working smarter is about doing the right things, not just doing tasks more efficiently. Below are two simple exercises to help you assess your internal rate of return and point you to working smarter. You don’t need to do these reflection exercises at your desk. After I did the exercise I put it in a folder and forgot about it.

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How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle

Harvard Business

Building our curiosity muscle is essential because it will aid in the efficiency of leadership, enables continual learning, and because it’s a sought after skill by employers. Like any muscle, to strengthen it, you must activate and exercise it.

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5 steps to boost process efficiency: A guide for businesses up to 100 employees

Asamby Consulting

Process Improvement In business, you need to use resources as efficiently as possible. The goal of this exercise is to make the findings manageable. So you need to make sure that your processes are set up well. And if this already wasn't challenging, it becomes especially difficult if you run a remote team. Come up with 2-5 categories.

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Tips on How Consultants Can Balance Working Long Hours and Managing a Healthy Life

Steve Shu Consulting

Presuming that the focus on health is mostly on physical exercise and diet (versus mental health or social relationships), here are some things I’ve used to try to strike a balance: On the job, really focus on what is strategically important; try to cut bait or minimize involvement with small stuff that you shouldn’t sweat.

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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Consultants conduct market validation exercises, customer surveys, prototype testing, and feedback analysis to validate product-market fit and identify areas for improvement. Operational Efficiency and Scalability Efficient operations are critical for startup success, especially as businesses scale and expand.

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How to Change a Workshop In-Person Game to a Remote Simulation for Effective Results

Johanna Rothman

That's an example of how insidious resource efficiency thinking is. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark Kilby explained his Compass Exercise for how he starts converting activities. You can see a version of that here: Converting Exercises for Online Facilitation – the Jumpstart Storytelling Exercise.

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And it can also do that

Seth Godin Blog

Meditation and Mindfulness Exercises : Guide through meditation and mindfulness exercises tailored to specific needs or durations. Business Name & Slogan Creation : Generate creative and relevant business names and slogans based on industry and key values.

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