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

JULY 13, 2016

Through my own experience and in my work coaching clients on time management, I’ve seen that there often is a strong correlation between poor time management, working longer hours, and feeling stressed. My thoughts would return to what needed to be done next, even though I knew it was time to clock out.

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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. Weather be damned; I’m on it every day.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

For example, get a reminder to turn your meetings into “walking meetings” on any day when it isn’t raining, or a reminder to leave the office early if you worked too late the night before. More and more people use apps to guide or structure their habit routines, particularly when it comes to meditation and exercise.

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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. Try the values exercise, then circle back to a “should” decision you’ve recently made or are considering. Does she need to be in every meeting?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But when it comes to their own time management or laying out a plan to get a big project done, they balk. At some point, you need to decide that it’s worth the time and effort to create plans and routines. This maximizes your effectiveness and allows you to consistently set and meet expectations.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

This will prevent you from wasting precious time continually re-evaluating whether you might get to them that could be better invested in actually completing your work. As new tasks arise, determine if they meet your criteria for inclusion — contributing to your mission and fulfilling your vision of success.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Then, further training is usually limited to new production introductions or annual “kick-off” meetings to set quotas, where reps are flown in, given information and marching orders, and “fired-up” by a motivational speaker or exercise (more hot coals, anyone?).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

But your direct reports don’t just learn from you when you sit down for your one-on-one meetings. People are watching all the time,” says Finkelstein. The best training for someone learning to become a manager is individualized attention from you, their boss. This shouldn’t just occur in meetings though.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

Better attention management leads to improved productivity, but it’s about much more than checking things off a to-do list. It’s more than just exercising focus. It’s about taking back control over your time and your priorities. Aspirations vs. Experiences. As James said, your experience is what you attend to.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

Suppose you’re repeatedly putting off the preparation you need to do for an upcoming meeting. For example, you might allow yourself to read lowbrow magazines or books when you’re at the gym, because the guilty pleasure helps dilute your brain’s perception of the short-term “cost” of exercising.

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