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Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business

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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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Strategies for Managing your time and boundaries

Brimstone Consulting

The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever. Tim Wentworth, President Cigna Services, cites vigilant time management as one of the keys to his success as the leader of a major organization.

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How to Protect Your Boundaries When Your Company Is Struggling

Harvard Business

In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run. Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization.

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4 Strategies for Overcoming Distraction

Harvard Business

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. Here are four of my favorites. Give yourself 50 minutes.

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Unlocking the Power of Strategic Prioritization at Work

LSA Global

Ensure that people spend 80% of their time on what matters most. Strategies for The Power of Strategic Prioritization at Work Effectively prioritizing tasks and projects is a skill that sets high-performing teams apart. Focusing on essential work can lead to higher performance, reduced stress, and improved time management.

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Someone to take care of it

Seth Godin Blog

” “Do you know someone who can do all of the investments, accounting, taxes and strategies around money?” ” “Why do I have to spend time managing people, I want to get back to creating.” Someone able to work full time, or at least focus their full energy, the way you do.

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