Chad Barr

APRIL 25, 2023

Additionally, it can be leveraged for personal growth, enhanced learning, improved time management and overall, the quality of our lives. Market Research: The analysis of data to establish trends, identify potential markets, and improved decision-making.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity? New research explores this question and finds that many people commit two key errors in organizing their schedules: stacking too many meetings together on the same day or pairing intense meetings with other intense tasks.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. In addition, Gallup research shows 82% of managers are failing. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The power of strategic prioritization at work is the key to ensuring that your team dedicates time to what truly matters. Ensure that people spend 80% of their time on what matters most. Invest the time and energy in your next strategy retreat to identify the top two or three priorities that matter most.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 10, 2023

Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking. The researched benefits of knowing yourself are numerous beyond improving a business's bottom line. Poor-performing businesses had 20 percent more leaders with blind spots than high-performing businesses.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Time management. In order to take on all of these responsibilities, one has to develop outstanding time management skills. During these times your best friend will become Google Calendar. She currently works as a Research Analyst at UBO Consulting.

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LSA Global

APRIL 5, 2021

Culture’s Role in Business Success We know from our organizational alignment research that workplace culture – how work gets done – accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. The Power of Symbolic Actions Symbols are helpful reminders of the change. Model the acceptance of all ideas.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

Research from Jabra showed that 77% of workers want more flexibility in how and where they work. Here are 3 employee experience strategies to keep your remote and hybrid workforce engaged in 2022 while balancing a return to the office. Research from Reclaim AI conducted between Feb. 2020 and Oct.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Going From Colleague to Boss Creates Common New Manager Challenges Not surprisingly, most new managers struggle to make the transition from the role of individual contributor to the role of people leader. 98% of new people managers feel they would benefit from new manager training. Sadly, many are inadequately prepared.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. You have plenty of company.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Too many new managers have not been taught how to effectively lead people. Research on New Manager Effectiveness. With more than half of first-time managers reporting that they received no training when promoted, it is not surprising that up to 50% of new managers are deemed ineffective by their bosses.

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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

JULY 3, 2018

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. Having strategies for making quicker decisions can help too.

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LSA Global

MARCH 10, 2020

You’d be surprised how many L&D practitioners cram communication, problem-solving, decision making, time management, delegation, work load management, goal setting, coaching, giving feedback, etc. into new manager training and overwhelm their newly promoted people managers.This is a mistake. One and Done”.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

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. Our latest research allows us to begin quantifying how these habits can cause significant — and often undesirable — ripple effects.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. Besides that, you can research what skills are currently in high demand and which areas you can expect to get top consulting jobs. Marketing and Sales strategy. Growth Strategy. Product Strategy and Launch.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research implicates another important stakeholder, the firm’s investors, who may keep businesses tethered to existing technologies. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations. Our research shows that these are not isolated examples.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more. Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Keep technology out of the bedroom.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more. Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Keep technology out of the bedroom.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

When my colleagues and I recently tested the following five strategies with a group of 26 managers, the percentage who said they were “effective” at making a clean break between work and home jumped from 40% to 68%. Research from Francesca Gino and Michael Norton has shown the power of such rituals or routines.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Occupational stress researchers use the phrase “illegitimate tasks” to describe these needless or inappropriate tasks. Science has caught up with what employees have known for a long time: Illegitimate work wears you down. Illegitimate tasks make work miserable. Mitigate any illegitimate work that remains.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. Use a few minutes in a team meeting to share some of the research on the benefits of vacation. As with anything that matters in the workplace, the key to vacation compliance is to measure it and manage it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Yet, more time doesn’t necessarily translate into better quality work. In fact, spending more time at work and on specific tasks can actually hurt our performance, reducing the quality of our work. Research has shown that when weekly hours worked exceed 50 or 55 hours, cognitive performance (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We might see skills such as strong writing and editing, public speaking, planning and organizing, time management, technology skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, reasoning, negotiating, and decision-making, adaptability, professionalism and customer focus.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

.” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Research shows that we are at our most creative when we are in an unfamiliar environment. While not every study agrees , there is a good amount of research showing that diverse groups are more creative. ” Phil Harris, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer at Riverbed, adds an important reminder. Here’s what they said.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

. “I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Jane isn’t alone — far from it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

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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. Time-Consuming : Tasks that, although they may be important and even somewhat complex, are time-consuming and do not require you to do the initial 80% of research. It’s hard to remember.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Here are three subtle but powerful strategies to ratchet down the pressure and ensure you’re not subjecting your colleagues to undue stress and frustration. In fact, scrutinizing them too closely is likely to make them perform worse, as demonstrated via research into the phenomenon of “choking under pressure.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

But when our attention is completely derailed, research shows, it can take more than 20 minutes to refocus. Because I gave myself such a limited amount of time, I trapped myself into focusing on it — instead of focusing on the more pleasurable, threatening, and novel distractions that are available to me.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Yet, research suggests that retailers tend to view store associates as an expense to be controlled rather than as a medium to provide better service for customers. In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

This strategy can particularly helps with procrastinators, says Saunders. “Breaking it down into smaller parts can help people that struggle with procrastination to feel a greater sense of urgency and to follow through in a more timely manner.” Offer them projects and tasks they enjoy doing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. But our research identifies a hidden cost to this approach. The specific strategy will depend on the type of question a team faces.

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