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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. The following short NPR video discusses how emotions are contagious. Stress is an emotional contagion.

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Setting the right time frame can really help to make your meeting more productive by reducing the likelihood of getting off track. This generally involves making sure your audio and video work as expected.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. At some point today, I plan to upload the videos to teachable. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. I might or might not have finished the videos anyway. What happened?

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Product Management – What Is It and How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video)

Johanna Rothman

In the video, we offered several ideas, mostly about moving to rolling wave and just-in-time planning. The post Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That debt is management decision debt. I learned a ton from our conversation. Thank you, Daniel and Prateek for our conversation.

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How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2)

Johanna Rothman

I finished one week of the videos for the writing workshop. Finish another week of videos for the writing workshop because I want to announce it “soon.” My cost of delay means that my first job is to finish the video editing for the writing workshop. (I I use Screenflow to take my Zoom videos and edit them.

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How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity

Rick Conlow

2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. See this brief training video: 5 Superstar Coaching Steps. And that is the point: it all comes down to productivity. So, where do we draw the line? No, this does not give you an excuse to micromanage.)