Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Management and Oversight Challenges: Managers and employers may find it challenging to effectively foster teamwork. more days every month, or 16.8

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

Microsoft’s Human Factors Lab recently conducted a study in which 14 people took part in video meetings while wearing electroencephalogram (EEG) equipment—a cap to monitor the electrical activity in their brains. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back.

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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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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

A new study of over 2,000 American office workers found that over 70% experienced some form of unclear communication from their colleagues. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

A new study of over 2,000 American office workers found that over 70% experienced some form of unclear communication from their colleagues. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

We invited 332 students to the laboratory to complete two studies: one was dubbed the Cognitive Marathon, a series of stressful performance tasks (e.g., timed challenges similar to the Rubik’s cube); the other was framed as a reward for their hard work completing the marathon — it involved snacking and watching funny videos.

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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.” 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. Mark Bonchek.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

According to a seven-year study on workers’ performance, an inability to make this break between professional and personal time ranked among the top-10 stressful situations that people were least effective at handling. Her partner complains that she “never seems able to turn off.” Monique Valcour.

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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. 60% of the people in the same study indicated that being able to see others and share documents live made the discussion more open. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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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. Note: Some studies suggest that the chore wars are an American phenomenon.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. This article outlines two common signals that manager work habits unintentionally send to their teams, their impact, and recommendations for lessening unintended consequences.

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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. Maura Thomas and Shawn Thomas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our large-scale empirical study provides strong evidence of the constraining role of investors and financial markets in shaping the innovation choices of firms. Financial markets tend to punish the digital leaders in this group for forays that are necessarily complex strategies whose benefits are realized over longer periods of time.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

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. Identify new strategies to potentially pursue. Align around next steps.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Here are four strategies self-employed professionals can use to schedule meetings more effectively. That causes its own problems — one study showed the average employee attends a whopping 62 meetings per month — but logistically, it’s not that much of a problem.

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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. Maura Thomas and Shawn Thomas.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

Strategies for coaching athletes don’t always work for executives trying to manage employees. A manager might simply reprimand her — either nicely (“Please make more of an effort to be on time”) or sharply (“Do we need to get you a new watch?”).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Below I’ve put together a list of tips to help leaders of all kinds be deliberate with their choices, based largely on my years advising startup founders on product, marketing, and management at Google Ventures — and my subsequent work studying and experimenting with personal time-management techniques for my book Make Time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Studies indicate that participants in traditional curriculum-based training forget more than 80 percent of the information they were taught within 90 days. Salespeople must learn about strategy and sales tasks at your firm, not only a generic sales methodology. Here are some ways to incorporate better technology into training: Before.

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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. This meeting is an opportune time to talk about process improvements, challenging stakeholder issues, or career development, all of which will feel more manageable after a vacation. Don’t ignore it.

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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.” Case Study #1: Support your perfectionists and look for time-saving tools.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Attend a strategy summit? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Let’s say an interview or speech to 100 doctors or real estate experts would require preparation in an area you’ve never fully studied before. Should you speak at that event? Author a book? You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

One study showed that spending a few days out in nature disconnected from all devices — an unfamiliar and unusual experience for most people — led to a 50% increase in creativity. .” While not every study agrees , there is a good amount of research showing that diverse groups are more creative.

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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. But those are only the most visible ways one risks alienating one’s coworkers; to truly stop the office pathology, you have to look deeper. First, stop being vague.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

After reading hundreds of studies, interviewing dozens of experts, and running the gambit of self-experiments (including attending meditation retreats and slogging through a monthlong period of self-induced boredom), I learned that countless strategies can help us mitigate distraction. So how can you gain back control?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

He worked and studied 14 hours a day, seven days a week, fueled by a constant flow of stress hormones. Much has been written about specific stress management strategies, from cognitive reframing, emotional labeling, and mind/body practices to time management, fitness programs, and nutritional changes.

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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. In a second study, we asked 164 U.S. We ran a final study to test this interpretation. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. We asked 401 U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions.

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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. We conducted a study in 2010 at the Dutch subsidiary of an international financial consulting firm with over 3,500 employees. She hasn’t had to worry about her health. What our research shows. 763 employees completed both.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Our goal, in a randomized controlled experiment at Gap, was to shift retail associates to more-stable schedules and study the business results. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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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. Demonstrating that you can be productive is “a successful backdoor strategy” to getting your manager to sign off on a permanent arrangement, Dillon says.

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