Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? Do I need to attend this meeting? Take the example of a biotech company.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We know from our leadership simulation assessment data that resource constraints can be a significant obstacle to unlocking the power of strategic prioritization at work and achieving your strategic objectives. High performing teams review goals and accountabilities , set clear priorities, and feel confident about managing their workload.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I still see so many teams spend weeks at a time estimating projects they won't start for years. Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. I'm always off.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%. The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

And whilst we spend almost all of our time delivering training, we wholeheartedly believe in learning lots of things in lots of different ways. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

It wasn’t long after becoming a manager that I found I had landed on a seemingly endless treadmill of meetings. I was participating in so many that I barely had time to prep, let alone tackle the to-do lists I was taking away. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. You and Your Team Series.

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Comatch

MAY 26, 2023

And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language. Take emotional intelligence, a critical component of the soft skills that underpin harmonious and productive relationships. Awesome, isn’t it?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2018

While it is true that the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage others is not intuitive, those leadership attributes can be learned. The right management training can take an individual contributor who was responsible principally for their own productivity to a leader who knows how to manage the productivity of others.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. You have plenty of company.

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Peter Stark

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

When possible, provide comp time after an extensive project. Do all that you can to promote a happy, productive, stress free environment that acknowledges people have a life outside of work. It is important to meet with poor performers to clarify the goals and expectations. Then, hold them to meeting expectations.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Develop New Managers New people managers need meaningful support to be set up for success. If you want to really improve manager competence and confidence, we recommend you take a highly customized action learning leadership development approach. Being a Player-Coach New managers are held accountable for team results.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Managers Create and Refine the Culture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But this same force has also led to work environments that inundate people with a relentless stream of emails, meetings, and distractions. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Treat it as you would any meeting or an appointment. Analyze where your time is best spent. Staying Focused.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

”Utilization” essentially looks at the average amount of time between your first and last email or meeting of the day across several months of data and estimates total weekly working time for each employee. We also found that managers with small networks can have a significantly negative impact on their teams.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

International Coach Federation (ICF) Research: The ICF conducts extensive research on coaching, and their studies have found that 70% of individuals who received coaching reported improved work performance, communication skills, and productivity. It also highlighted that coaching is highly effective in developing leadership skills.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

On-boarding, for example, is usually a one-off session in which reps are expected to absorb large amounts of information in a limited amount of time. They must learn how other functions affect, and are affected by, selling activities: for example, product management, marketing, pre-sale application support, and post-sale service.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

Surveys have found that many employees complain that managers are “too busy” to meet with them, listen to their concerns, or update them about decisions. Similarly, managers have acknowledge d that they behave insensitively towards employees or act less fairly because they are “overloaded” or lack time.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 23, 2018

The following are some of the most common responses: Lack of time: When managers are so busy putting out the fire of the moment, there is almost never time to communicate information about situations that have not happened yet because they are always trying to survive in the moment. So What’s the Impact?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? We have senior leadership teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% So more stable scheduling is feasible, and holds the potential for improved sales and productivity. The results were striking. per year between 1987 and 2014. .”

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. The office kitchen.

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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.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 1, 2017

When you’re paid a fair salary but your other human needs are not meet, you tend to cite the famous line, “I don’t get paid enough to put up with this s@&t.”. When possible, provide comp time after an extensive project. Spend More Time Leading and Less Time Managing.

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