Posts Tagged ‘time management techniques’
Does Your Helpfulness Lead to Overcommitment?
Are you a helpful person? If you are, are you over-helpful? That might sound like an odd question, but I have many clients who drive down their productivity and increase their time management challenges because they bend over backwards to help others. I should clarify that I am not about to recommend that you turn…
Read MoreTime Management Techniques – The Pomodoro Method
When I’m greeted by audience members after presenting a productivity keynote or training, I’m often asked
Read MoreTime Blocking: Once You Estimate How Long Tasks Take, Where Do You Go from There?
A lot of people have heard of the concept of time blocking – figuring out how long tasks take so you can schedule them on your calendar. But sometimes in the process of time blocking, folks can get stressed about how much planning they need to do. Here’s an example…. Time blocking question from a…
Read MoreDo you need to set up a go bag and mobile office? – Productivity Tools for your Time Management Revolution
Are you quite often on-the-go when you’re at work? Meaning you may work out of a home office, or a brick and mortar, or a car, or all three? If so, here’s another time management speaker tip for your time management revolution. If you work in more than one location, you should consider setting up
Read MoreHow can you dig out of a buried office? – Productivity Tip for your Time Management Revolution
Have you ever tripped over over a pile or maybe stubbed your toe on a box in your office? If so, here’s another productivity tip for your Time Management Revolution: As we talked about in the prior blog post in this series, it’s very important to
Read MoreHow can you prevent losing time looking for stuff? – Productivity Tip for your Time Management Revolution
Have you ever lost time searching everywhere in your office for something? A file, a note, a pen, your phone … ??? If so, here’s another productivity tip for your Time Management Revolution: One of the ways we can save time is
Read MoreTake your time in order to save time – a time management workshop tip
For about the last ten weeks, I’ve been posting one blog (and video and podcast) per week with productivity strategies and tips for your Time Management Revolution. Today, I thought I’d throw in something a little different (but still related to time!) in order to celebrate an anniversary. One year ago today, on November 24,…
Read MoreHow can you prevent forgetting something that you need to get done? – Time Management Techniques for Your Revolution
Here are more time management techniques for your time management revolution. Have you ever gone into a sudden panic attack and thought, “Oh my gosh! Was I supposed to do something? Did I have something to do? Did I forget?!?” We can cost ourselves so much lost time just from worrying. So the best way to help…
Read MoreIs there a better way to manage your daily tasks? – productivity tools for your Time Management Revolution
Here’s another productivity tip for your time management revolution. Have you ever looked at your to-do list at the end of the day and seen only seven things out of 50 items crossed off? That can be so demoralizing! One of the reasons why we struggle with to-do lists is because we don’t attach time…
Read MoreHow can you better manage long term projects? – Productivity Tools for your Time Management Revolution
Here’s another productivity tip for your time management revolution. Have you ever had a week or maybe even a month to work on a project, then all of a sudden – from out of nowhere! – the deadline rolls around? You think, “Oh my gosh! I still have so much left to do!” The moment…
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