Category: Productivity
This is about being effective with your time and being focused on the right things to do each day or at each stage.
It could overlap with PM when we talk about your time on a project.
You want your employees to succeed right?
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We’ve all had a job at some point. Maybe one of yours was at a fast food joint where your primary responsibility was to flip that burger without getting your hair on it, and the training plan likely reflected that one work goal. While we’d love to think that on-the-job training would get better as we move
Don’t take your laptop
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We’ve all done it — headed off to a conference, with laptop in tow for taking notes and recording the wealth of information we gain from the conference. Yet we end up doing work, or Twitter or…simply not taking notes and learning like we had planned. Even if you’re better than me (which I’m pretty
Lack of trust is a hiring problem
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Last week, I was talking with an agency owner who is having trouble with his employees. At least in his eyes, the trouble is with his employees. The main issue is that he doesn’t feel he can ‘trust’ them with a project without his direct oversight every day. I just can’t trust them to do
Being effective at work starts at home
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Today, we’re going to talk about your relationship with your partner/spouse. I’ll start by telling you about my marriage of 12 years. It’s been rolling along well. We’ve got young kids, which does present some challenges when it comes to actually spending time together, just the two of us, but really, I’ve got an awesome
Did you set that expectation and tell no one?
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Possibly one of the most frustrating things about being married is when I’m ‘expected’ to possess the power of ESP. My wife is annoyed about something, or she wants me to do something, or…and I’m completely unaware of any expectation having been put on me. Which means I have no way to actually meet that
How to Keep Your Team Effective
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As your business grows you will, at some point, be faced with the decision to make a change from managing just yourself to managing a team. If that scares you stop the growth curve and be happy with running a solo business. For those that choose to move to a team structure, you no longer
How I keep up with web technology
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The web moves fast. You learn one technology and guess what? Something better comes out. No longer is the thing you just learned the thing everyone is raving about. It’s this new thing you don’t know anymore. There is danger in changing things up all the time. That danger is that you never really become
Who helps you set your business boundaries?
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Setting and sticking to weekly goals is hard for most of us. We find it reasonably easy to let ourselves down in places we’d never dream of letting a client down. We certainly wouldn’t stand for someone we were paying slacking in missed goals. Then we feel bad and plan to do better. Is this
You shouldn’t be doing what I do
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Just like my tools may not work for you, all the productivity tips I have given you (like a weekly schedule) may not actually help you become more productive. I’m sharing them because they work for me and they may work for you. Mike Vardy and Brett Terpstra talked about mood and mode on a
Even if you’re busy, don’t skip planning
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There was a time 2 years ago when I said I did GTD, but that wasn’t entirely true at the time. While I used OmniFocus as a task manager, I wasn’t fully committed to GTD because I skipped the most crucial part. The weekly review. But I’m busy The thing is, I was busy and a
