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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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I recently talked with a CEO who was incensed by the stories (hyped by the media) of people who had finagled their way to two full-time jobs while working remotely. Apparently, if you spend a lot of time managing your calendar, faking your zoom calls and living in fear, you can get away with it for a while.

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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. The power of full engagement: Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance and personal renewal. Penton Media, Inc. The newly promoted executive was on the edge of burnout. Loehr, J.,

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 6, 2016

In our brave new world of email, instant messaging, social media, twitter plus the occasional phone call it can be hard to sort through the list of possible tasks and decide what to do next. This concept was actually introduced by then-President Eisenhower, but it shows up as part of many time management systems.)

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LSA Global

JUNE 25, 2021

Goal Setting Let’s assume that overall sales goals are set by your sales manager. Presumably, you negotiated your individual sales quota as best you could so that you believe that, with hard work and team support, your sales targets are achievable, clear, relevant, meaningful, fair, consistent, accurate, trusted, timely, and transparent.

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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. It signals to people to not come in unless it’s truly urgent.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

When I need to get something done in a hurry, I use three time management tactics to maximize my available time and sharpen my focus. I calculated that I spent at least two hours a day consuming news media. That is 16 hours per week, or 64 per month — plenty of time to practice an instrument. Cat Yu for HBR.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Our devices offer a cornucopia of distractions, whether it’s email, social media, or texting with friends and family. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Srini Pillay. William Treseder. Maura Thomas.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

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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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

APRIL 11, 2016

Jill should have spent much more time managing up. She should have better managed decision makers, her boss, her image, and her own career. Managing a career in these ways is critical, but surprisingly few people do it. So why wasn’t Jill spending more time managing up, especially if it was in her own self-interest?

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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

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). These sectors have never been, and never will be, composed purely of digital bits.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

The international media has had a field day covering the Spanish prime minister’s announcement , in early April, that he wants to return Spain to GMT and bring the country’s working hours and practices in line with the rest of Europe. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. Everybody wins.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. They’re also likely to crave people connection, and therefore distract themselves by wandering around to talk to colleagues or turning to social media. Experiment to see what works.

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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

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. Channing Rodman, a social media consultant, developed her writing practice by posting daily essays to Facebook.

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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. What Is A/B Testing? How Do Companies Use A/B Testing?

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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

MAY 23, 2018

Use their social media profiles for updates on their life you can use as a reason to connect, or take the 30 seconds to pass along a quick note when an article, video, or anything else brings that person up in your mind. Weak ties are often more valuable than new contacts anyway, the research suggests.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

For example, today I set three intentions: finish a draft of this article, have fun in two media interviews that have been scheduled, and finalize a slide deck for a talk next week. That’s when I realized that my work was simply expanding to fit how much time I had available for it.

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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. Meetings never really go away.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

Despite being overcommitted to work and family obligations, having unprecedented geographic mobility, telecommuting instead of working beside colleagues, and tapping or tweeting instead of talking, we seem to have a lot of friends: about 200 social media friends and 11 offline friends. There is no special magic to making and keeping friends.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

To manage these tensions, just over half of American workers said they simply steered clear of political conversations at work, but one in five reported avoiding certain coworkers because of their political views. As a manager, set clear goals for your team and focus people on working together toward common objectives.

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