Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

So goes the manager’s punch list for check-ins with direct reports. 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.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most high performing teams start the year with a clear and agreed upon team charter that sets the team’s collective intention to maximize productivity. High performing teams review goals and accountabilities , set clear priorities, and feel confident about managing their workload.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When you know how each of your direct reports likes to work and communicate, you’re able to save time when setting direction and following up. When she was promoted to manager of a new team, she immediately dug into the new product she was assigned, as well as her team members’ work. Consider this example.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

.” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

That’s potentially more email, more tasks, more meetings, and more searching for answers to questions about items outside of your normal day-to-day. That may mean an email where they detail the status of projects, next steps, deadlines, and any key contacts, or you may have a meeting to communicate this information. Ask for help.

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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Being a Player-Coach New managers are held accountable for team results. To deliver, they need to be able to manage their own time and stress in a way that they can stay organized and meet team deadlines – especially as companies continue to ask their managers to do more with less.

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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. The data shows that managers in the top quartile of utilization — a.k.a.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. 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. Environment.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

In a Remote Work report by Nira , communication and social opportunities were the top two challenges with remote work. Inclusivity with virtual game nights, fitness and mental health activities, happy hours and discussion boards can help bridge that gap between coworkers who may never meet in person. 2020 and Oct.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Meetings Take Half as Long. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking at the distance between your idea and the finished product — whether it’s a podcast, a coaching practice, an app, or anything else — can seem overwhelming. Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive. Time management issues. Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

Companies with higher levels of employee engagement report 18% greater productivity, 12% higher customer satisfaction and 51% less voluntary turnover. Companies with lower levels of employee engagement report 12% lower profits, 19% lower operating income and 28% lower earnings per share. The Research.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In my research and experience as a time management coach, and in my work developing my new book, Divine Time Management , I’ve discovered that people often jump to blaming others in conflict. For us to work together effectively, I need to receive reports on time from you.” Maybe yes, maybe no.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. The Magic of 30-Minute Meetings.

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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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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

You can’t schedule that important meeting, because the key players are on holiday. It could be handling those expense reports that accounting has been hounding you for, or writing a recommendation letter for your former intern, or updating your LinkedIn profile.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. “It proves that you can manage it.”

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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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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

You can dictate how long you’ll be away from your work based on deadlines, but even as little as 10 minutes meeting some tangible non-work-related goal can anchor you. Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that. It’s an inarguable fact.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Periodically, a client and accountant would meet, review financial materials and status and, at the end of the encounter, make an appointment for the next meeting. Increasingly, in-person accountant visits have been replaced by phone or web meetings and do-it-yourself software like TurboTax. Probably only some of it does.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

So by daring to say “I’ll send you the report by the end of the day” we add social benefits to following through on our promise—which can be just enough to nudge us to bite the bullet. Suppose you’re repeatedly putting off the preparation you need to do for an upcoming meeting.

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