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What Shall I Do First?

Deciding the order in which we tackle the various tasks before us is something we all do consciously (or unconsciously) every day.  There are many methods for prioritizing work.  In most methods, the...

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Training for Today’s Hurry-Up World

A recent DesignArounds poll asked learning professionals to identify their most pressing current challenge. No surprises here. 100% reported ‘time‘. Given today’s business climate and economic...

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Employees Struggle to Successfully Maneuver Around Workplace Distractions

New Survey Reveals Layers of Workplace Distractions that Impact Employees and Businesses Every minute of every work day employees are bombarded with distractions they must work with or around to get...

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The Good News About Stress Management: How “Good” Stress Keeps Us Going &...

Author: Barbara Schiffman, C.Ht. Every health and lifestyle magazine contains articles claiming stress is bad for us. They list dozens of ways to relieve stress, from exercise to eating healthy foods....

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The “No Vacation” Holiday Is a Great Time Management Tool

If you do not have vacation time blocked off on the company schedule now for the end of the year, do not despair.  It seems everyone wants to have the holidays off, yet when we submit our annual...

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“Stop Doing” List Examples

by Harry K. Jones Last month, I shared a very powerful time management tool which has proven to be very successful for those who have attended our time management seminars. In that article, Start a...

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Overcoming Procrastination Checklist

Feel free to use this tip sheet / checklist as you tackle tasks and projects.  ACT AFTER YOU PLAN • start with a written plan of action to avoid getting distracted • keep your plan simple and...

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A Simple Key to Dramatically Increase Your Effectiveness: Learn to Love What...

For each of us, there are tasks we’d rather not have to do. I’m confident you know which these are. What are those things you need to do that you just dread? Or that always drift to the bottom of your...

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Become a Single-Tasker

Multi-tasking.  Deep down, we all know it doesn’t really make us more productive.  Yet it sure can make us feel more productive.  And for some people, and in some corporate cultures, it’s a point of...

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Basics of Time and Stress Management

The role of leader can be very stressful! Management studies have suggested that these roles include a very wide mix of activities, most of which cannot always be controlled or even predicted. New...

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How to Get Things Done – In Spite Of Yourself

Everyone procrastinates at one time or another. In fact, of all time management problems, this is the one that is most obvious, and it is the one we most readily admit to. Procrastination comes in many...

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Take Stock With A Time Inventory

Most of us complain that there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything we need and want to do. Yet, often we spend hours on activities and conversations that don’t come close to being...

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Time Management 101

Time Management. An interesting concept, and a topic that I’m asked to present fairly often in a workshop format. It occurs to me that what employers are really interested in is productivity. To...

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The Crucial Role of Meeting Leader

In The Strategy of Meetings, George David Kieffer writes that the meeting leader must “make the team believe that (1) the group is worth being with; (2) individual members will have an opportunity to...

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Have You Got a Time Leak?

How come some people get so much done and others struggle to make the day’s priorities match up with the available hours? This post identifies three common causes, referred to as “time leaks.”

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Knowledge Transfer: Why it’s important, and how it’s done

“It’s easier to just do it myself.” How many times have you caught yourself saying that? It can feel true. Teaching someone else what you know takes time and energy that are hard to spare from the...

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10 Secrets to Overcoming Procrastination

If “Be More Effective” is on your list of things to do this year, don’t miss our newest infographic, 10 Secrets for Overcoming Procrastination (opens a PDF). Procrastination is one of the most common...

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Overcoming Procrastination Checklist

Feel free to use this tip sheet / checklist as you tackle tasks and projects. ACT AFTER YOU PLAN • start with a written plan of action to avoid getting distracted • keep your plan simple and...

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Training Pays! 5 things to tell your CFO about the value of off-the-shelf...

How can your organization – and you as a trainer – benefit from the use of off-the-shelf, video-based training materials? It’s an important question. Here’s what your colleagues* told us about the...

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Employees Struggle to Successfully Maneuver Around Workplace Distractions

New Survey Reveals Layers of Workplace Distractions that Impact Employees and Businesses Every minute of every work day employees are bombarded with distractions they must work with or around to get...

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