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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Cleveland Clinic, as well as the IT department at Nationwide Insurance, use a tiered huddle system to drive problem solving down to the lowest possible level and reduce the need for firefighting. Menlo Innovation carefully schedules software production in predictable two-hour, four-hour, and eight-hour blocks.

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How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home

Harvard Business

” As someone who has worked from home for 12 years, and been a time management coach for remote workers, I’ve seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I became a time management coach, my schedule was chaotic. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem.

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

Harvard Business

Although curriculum-based training — classroom-type courses typically focused on a selling methodology and activities like time management — has its place, it should only be treated as a foundation.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

Health insurers have long believed that making face-to-face visits a requirement for reimbursement could protect them from overuse. Otherwise, the fear goes, every minor ailment shifts from something that would likely resolve on its own into an encounter that creates a reimbursable insurance claim. Less Time, Better Care.

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Freelance programming

QEmploy

You need to be your own accountant in regards to pay your taxes, insurance etc. Challenges of Freelancing. Dealing with clients who don’t pay. Income is less reliable. No team to share ideas and to encourage in case of some failure.

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Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business

. “I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Figure out your own form of “marriage insurance.”

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

Examples: making a will, investigating a lump, succession planning for your business, actually reading your insurance policies, or creating that crisis management plan. Many important tasks involve tolerating thinking about things that could go wrong, which is anxiety-provoking.

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