Posts Tagged ‘time management’
How much of your team’s work is irrelevant or a waste of time/efficiency?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How much of your team’s work is irrelevant or a waste of time/efficiency? Less than 5%: 15.5% 6% to 15%: 33.04% [...]
How often do you overcommit yourself and your team?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How often do you overcommit yourself and your team? All of the time. I never say “no” to any request of [...]
Where do you spend the majority of your time and effort?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Where do you spend the majority of your time and effort? Managing up (bosses, customers, senior stakeholders): 39.32% Managing across (peers, [...]
3 strategies to stop proscrastinating
Did you ever find yourself facing an important assignment, but somehow, you just couldn’t get yourself motivated to start working on it? Does time go by — days turning into weeks — yet you don’t seem to be any closer to getting the job done? You are hardly alone. We all know what it’s like [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 4 ways to improve as a public speaker 4 quick tips to take better control of your time Do you reward employees for being overworked? How to dodge a hiring nightmare 5 tips for making the most of your millennials 4 ways to build [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: Building a team that works
Instead of trying to make the process shape the team — why not let the team shape the process? “Give your team a bit of time to play around and figure out where you want to go before officially launching anything,” Celine Roque writes. Once you’ve got your team set up, focus on cultivating a [...]
