Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 4, 2022

As we began to work together, it became clear they didn't have the time management challenge they initially believed. Stress in the workplace is at an all-time high, and 60% of employees are unwilling or unable to connect with others as a result. Penton Media, Inc. The newly promoted executive was on the edge of burnout.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Then define other times where you shut your door — or as one of my time management coaching clients found to be effective, have it mostly shut. This lessens the time you spend dealing with interruptions and transitioning back to the task at hand. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A while back, I took a year to experiment with every piece of personal productivity advice I could find. In becoming hyperaware of how I spent my time, I noticed something: I procrastinated a lot more often than I had originally thought. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Staying Focused.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. In 2012 it launched the Salon Board, a cloud-based platform for reservations and customer management.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. For those who have trouble keeping their focus, become bored easily, or are extroverted, a meeting-free day may be a productivity killer. There’s a reason that I’ve coached professors on how to be productive during their sabbaticals.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

This enables employees to choose their own workhours, cutting out unnecessary time that has no effect on a day-to-day work schedule or conflicts with personal responsibilities. It also deployed a Virtual First Toolkit , which shared tips for collaboration, time management, inclusive language and team unity skills.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Most of us have meetings that we can afford to miss, and most of us underutilize our energy because we have not allocated time to reflect and be rigorous about our priorities. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Yet it can also be a highly addictive time-sink if we’re not careful about our goals , purpose , and usage. Further, it was very clearly time-based. Experiment #2: Carving Out Daily Time Blockers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. Or buy our product? What Is A/B Testing?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

If you always have it nearby, a pop-up notification (possibly accompanied by an alert sound) may be your most reliable trigger, whether it’s your phone’s reminder function or your preferred task manager or calendar app. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. You and Your Team Series. Building Good Habits.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2016

If you think of social media as the sole province of vacation selfies and muffin recipes, the idea of using it for genuine professional development may seem absurd. But there are plenty of ways you can use social media to build professional skills, knowledge, and relationships, without getting overwhelmed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. I realized that what I needed was a practical way to get more work done without taking more time. Meetings never really go away.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

But in the aftermath of a heated presidential campaign, we were curious about whether political talk was adding an extra layer, threatening job performance, productivity, and employee well-being. Younger workers in particular reported lower levels of productivity and higher levels of stress. Work relationships suffered as well.

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