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Format Efficient Progress Reports
Spend less time updating your boss about the status of your team’s projects. Continue reading
Provide Foolproof Instructions
When staffers follow instructions correctly the first time, their productivity soars and your
frustration level drops. Continue reading
6 Tips to Overcome Overload
We’re living in a fast-paced, technology-centered world, and that can take a toll on your productivity and performance. Use these tactics to minimize the pain associated with cyber-overload—and prevent total burnout: Limit multitasking and task switching. If you want to … Continue reading
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Conquer Fear to Tackle a Big Project
Robert Pozen, author of Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, offers this process for breaking through your anxiety and completing that intimidating task: Continue reading
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Hey, Women! Stop Trying to Be So Perfect at Work!
This is a guest post by Aimee Cohen. So many women are trapped inside the Perfectionism Prison. First of all, there isn’t enough room to house all the women that are perpetually trapped inside the Perfectionism Prison. This prison may … Continue reading
Recover from a HUGE Productivity Killer
When someone or something kills your productivity, follow these steps. Continue reading
4 Ways To Raise Productivity
Offer new work/life benefits and policies that allow employees to balance both worlds and you will boost innovation, creativity, loyalty, efficiency, culture and morale. Consider these helpful solutions: Family-care programs. Implement stress-reducing programs and services that help employees handle family … Continue reading
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Quick tip: Don’t open your email until noon
Most people won’t email you anything that can’t wait a few hours, so rather than spend your first hours feeling the urgency to address email, focus instead on doing your most important work. —Adapted from “8 Steps to Having Wildly … Continue reading
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Take baby steps toward improvement
When you are really behind, small gains in efficiency and time management may not make much sense to you. While those efforts add up to real improvement, you probably feel like you don’t have the time to take baby steps: You need a major change—and you need it now. Continue reading
Quick tip: Devote a whole day to errands
Instead of allowing personal appointments to chop up your work schedule, group them together on one day. Make several appointments that you can’t schedule during off hours. Example: Start your morning by dropping your cat off at the veterinarian, and … Continue reading
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