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Boxing with your time

02/07/2015 /

Time management is the hardest challenge of our everyday life. Because of multitasking we often struggle to focus on a single task and to well accomplish that.

Timeboxing is a special approach to time management. It consists in setting a certain ammount of your time in completing a task. Once the time is over, you must switch to another task. This approach forces you to be more efficient in order to accomplish the task before the end of the time available.

Timeboxing can be used to schedule your day but also with your team. It can b every useful in order to avoid distractions and keep the focus on waht you are doing.

This article describes this innovative approach in time management.

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Soft skills to succeed in the workplace

19/02/2015 /

How many soft skills you can think of? The Blog Aboutcareers has made a comprehensive list which shows how vast and articulated this domain is.

In this context, Soft skills are defined as the personal attributes you need to succeed in the workplace. Regardless of the job, you need at least some soft skills to be successful.

Here is a list of 10 chosen at random just to give and idea:

  1. Able to Listen
  2. Delegation
  3. Facilitating
  4. Good at Storytelling
  5. Motivating
  6. Problem-solver
  7. Respectful
  8. Sense of Humor
  9. Time Management
  10. Writing Skills

Check the full list  4605043024_c2a7051918_bImage source: Flickr – Elle * (CC BY 2.0)

6 Things The Most Productive People Do Every Day

16/12/2014 /

Ever feel like you’re just not getting enough done?

Below are six tips Tim Ferriss, author of the international bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, offered:

1) Manage Your Mood
If you start the day calm it’s easy to get the right things done and focus.
Studies demonstrate happiness increases productivity and makes you more successful.

2) Don’t Check Email In The Morning
Research shows emails:
– Stresses you out.
– Can turn you into a jerk.
– Can be more addictive than alcohol and tobacco.
– And checking email frequently is the equivalent of dropping your IQ 10 points.

3) Before You Try To Do It Faster, Ask Whether It Should Be Done At All
Everyone asks, “Why is it so impossible to get everything done?” But the answer is stunningly easy: You’re doing too many things.

4) Focus Is Nothing More Than Eliminating Distractions
What’s the best way to sum up the research? How about this: Distractions make you stupid.

5) Have A Personal System

6) Define Your Goals The Night Before
Define your one or two most important to-dos before dinner, the day before.

Once you are more productive, you’ll have a lot more hours to fill.
So why not use them to make others and yourself happier?

For the article: Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: 21 Time Management Tips to Hack Productivity

09/10/2014 /

Many people try to increase their productivity. There are people who scurry from task to task, always checking e-mail, organizing something, making a call, running an errand, as they think that “staying busy” means you are working hard and you are going to be more successful.There are innumerable hacks and tricks to manage your time effectively.

These are some useful tips to manage your time:

  1. Complete most important tasks first
  2. Learn to say “no”
  3. Sleep at least 7-8 hours
  4. Devote your entire focus to the task at hand
  5. Get an early start
  6. Don’t allow unimportant details to drag you down
  7. Turn key tasks into habits
  8. Be conscientious of amount of TV/Internet/gaming time
  9. Delineate a time limit in which to complete task
  10. Leave a buffer-time between tasks
  11. Don’t think of the totality of your to-do list
  12. Exercise and eat healthily
  13. Do less
  14. Utilize weekends, just a little bit
  15. Create organizing systems
  16. Do something during waiting time
  17. Lock yourself in
  18. Commit to your plan to do something
  19. Batch related tasks together
  20. Find time for stillness
  21. Eliminate the non-essential.
  22. Enjoyment should always be the goal. Work can be play.

Read more: The creativity post


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6 Things Really Productive People Do

03/07/2014 /

Sometimes, the key to success lies in organization. Kevin Daum, author of  the best seller Video Marketing for Dummies, has agreed to share with the online magazine Inc.com a series of suggestions on how to increase productivity so as to maximize those 24 hours we have each day.

The list includes:

  1. Prioritization
  2. Focusing on efficiency
  3. Integration of different activities
  4. Time management
  5. Active learning and, most importantly,
  6. Lightness

To find out more about the best path to productivity, read whole article at: bit.ly/1cm458c

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Long Emails Don’t Get Read

30/04/2013 /

According to Craig Jarrow, the author of Time Management Ninja web site, effective email communication is as much a skill as anything else. The shorter and tighter your email messages, the better chance that they will be read, understood and acted upon.

Here are 10 Reasons That Your Emails Are Too Long:

  1. You don’t know what you are trying to say Long Emails
  2. You don’t know what you are talking about
  3. Your signature is unnecessary
  4. You are writing a book
  5. You are spamming
  6. You are rambling
  7. You are forwarding a mess
  8. It shouldn’t be an email
  9. It should be multiple emails
  10. You don’t edit your emails

In today’s high-speed communication, no one wants to read overly long email messages.

So, get to the point!

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Successful Time Management

08/06/2012 /

Effective Time Management is a challenge for everybody. Most people keep running all day long, complaining about time constraint. But have they ever analyses the way they emply their Time.

Bookboon has a vast collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. One of the best books is dedicated to “Successful Time Management” and can be freely downloaded from the Web.

“In this textbook you’ll will learn skills and techniques to prioritise your work, how to avoid time wasting events and how to communicate what you want and what you don’t want!”

New frontiers : Measuring, counting, self-tracking

05/03/2012 /

“The use of metrics by individuals is rather less widespread, with the notable exceptions of people who are trying to lose weight or improve their fitness. Most people do not routinely record their moods, sleeping patterns or activity levels, track how much alcohol or caffeine they drink or chart how often they walk the dog.

But some people are doing just these things. […] What they share is a belief that gathering and analysing data about their everyday activities can help them improve their lives—an approach known as “self-tracking”, “body hacking” or “self-quantifying”………”

Read the article published by the Economist on this subject

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