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Mastering Time: Three Strategies for Increasing Productivity

Tom Spencer

Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Effective time management involves an ongoing and regular process of organising your schedule so that time is allocated to all of the important aspects of your life.

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Track Your Time for 30 Days. What You Learn Might Surprise You.

Harvard Business

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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Give Yourself Permission to Work Fewer Hours

Harvard Business

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. Once you have these practical strategies in place, the final element is emotional.

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5 Ways to Counteract Your Smartphone Addiction

Harvard Business

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Truly restorative breaks instead involve exercise, conversation or reflection. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects?

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6 Ways to Counteract Your Smartphone Addiction

Harvard Business

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Truly restorative breaks instead involve exercise, conversation or reflection. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects?

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business

Logging apps make it easy to record information like what you’ve eaten, when and how you’ve exercised, or when you’ve completed work tasks. More and more people use apps to guide or structure their habit routines, particularly when it comes to meditation and exercise. Guide your habit.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

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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