The Management Centre

JULY 5, 2023

You don’t have to start a report by writing the first sentence. It is helpful to add a time limit to each of these tasks, focussing on what you could do in a 5 to 15 minute window. For example: You’re a fundraising manager for a community charity with a team of 8 staff and 15 volunteers. What’s next?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Promotion to Management and How to Develop New People Leaders While being promoted to a management role is exciting, many first time people leaders are dismayed by how difficult it can be to lead, manage, and coach teams of people with different roles, skills, attitudes, and desires.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Many managers harp on the all-too-disorderly whirlwind way of doing business these days. Today, even when we leave the office, we are always accessible, we are in constant contact with others and typically, we are expected to be “on” all the time. And what does all of this have to do with managing others?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Take writing a quarterly report. If you find this boring, you can turn it into a game: see how many words you can crank out in a 20-minute time period. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Then try to think differently about the task, making the idea of completing it more attractive.

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LSA Global

APRIL 5, 2021

And recent research by Deloitte reports that 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a clear company culture is vital to a business’ success. How can your company’s symbols be changed or leveraged to help create the desired culture you need to successfully execute your strategy? Model the acceptance of all ideas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one. Many side hustlers start out strong, pursuing their projects with vigor, but find their resolve flagging over time, as they hit inevitable setbacks or discover that progress is slower than they had expected. Time management issues. Focusing on the wrong first steps.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

Here are 3 employee experience strategies to keep your remote and hybrid workforce engaged in 2022 while balancing a return to the office. Strategy 1: Engaging a remote workforce First, we must recognize that some of employees simply do not want to return to in-office. Don’t assume employees want it one way or another.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

Your important priorities might relate to: enacting your values (for example, volunteering or spending more time with your children). averting disasters (scheduling an annual checkup at the doctor or creating a crisis management protocol for your business). Anticipate and Manage Feelings of Anxiety. So, what can you do?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

Managers have hard jobs. We’ve previously written about what great managers do differently , but even great managers are not fully aware of how their work habits can impact those they supervise. The transition from individual contributor to manager expands the influence of a person’s work habits.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As a time management coach, I believe the best option is the final one — finding an in-between solution where you keep up on the essentials but avoid putting the full weight of multiple jobs on your shoulders. These six strategies can help you strike that delicate balance. Or is there an answer in between? Accept reality.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

When a platform strategy requires mixing the digital and the physical, the area of differentiation lies in service delivery in the physical world. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. This seems to be a strange situation. “‘Why us?’

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Chris, a senior manager at a New York design studio can’t sleep. Katrina, the production manager at a well-known publishing house is distracted by a work email at the dinner table. This five-step strategy requires minimal time and effort — about 10 -15 minutes per day in our experience. VCG/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. In time I became emboldened and let them know what I was doing — at the time, focusing on my book manuscript. Discuss your strategy with close colleagues and your boss. Step 2: Retrain Others.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Block as a team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

We see this happen all the time when clients hire us to help manage offsites. Here are some example objectives from different types of meetings we’ve run recently: Board meeting: Provide Board input as Management formulates the new five-year strategy. Agree on how much runway remains on the current core strategy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Is your work time taken up by mandatory tasks that have no discernable value? Consider the iconic “TPS report,” from the cult film Office Space , an ostensibly useless administrative report whose form is far more important to the boss than its content.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. I’d rather spend 45 minutes working through a video conference with a CEO or GM than have a two-hour traditional conference call. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

In a recent global survey we conducted of 740 leaders, 84% reported experiencing stress on a regular basis (for more, read “How Your State of Mind Affects Your Performance” ). Like many other leadership capacities, stress management requires self-awareness. Symptoms Reported by Leaders Under Chronic Stress.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects? Use “cc” and “reply all” judiciously. We perform better when we take breaks.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

To me, having intact units work the same reduced schedule seems to be a smarter strategy than having a few 30-hour employees mixed in with more-than-full-time employees. Culture change is hard, and it is possible that traditionally managed units will resent the new ones, reducing cooperation and increasing internal rivalry.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects? Use “cc” and “reply all” judiciously. We perform better when we take breaks.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

“It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” ” Rather than haranguing a worker for a late financial report, sit down and create a specific schedule for deliverables. Give her guidance on where you want her to emphasize her time, and also how long something should take.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

In the midst of the summer doldrums, how can you stay motivated and actually make your time at the office count? Here are three strategies to keep in mind. That gives you more freedom to schedule uninterrupted blocks of time to tackle important projects you’ve been putting off, but which could significantly benefit your career.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

The angel on the other side pipes up, imploring you to aim for focus, strategy, meaning, and impact instead. For example, teaching one of your direct reports how to draft the presentation deck for the monthly all-hands meeting, and even how to be the one to deliver those updates to the team. It’s hard to remember.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Facebook will forever be a more attractive object of attention than an Excel spreadsheet; checking email will always offer a bigger dopamine hit than the report we’re writing. Have an entire afternoon to write a monotonous report? So how can you gain back control? Set an artificial project deadline. Give yourself 50 minutes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

In the spa experiment, we also asked the students to predict the percentage of time they’d be distracted by midterms as opposed to just sitting back and enjoying the massage. Then, after actually having the spa experience, they reported the actual percentage of time that they ended up being distracted.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation. The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Michael, the director of strategy for an American insurance company, does not work as much as Hanna. Specifically, employees who worked long hours (typically more than 40 hours a week), but who did not obsess about work, did not have increased levels of RMS and reported fewer health complaints than employees who demonstrated workaholism.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. Here are some strategies to convince your boss to let you work remotely. ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. Give your boss time. Reflect on your motivations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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