Time Management and Productivity
7 habits of highly productive people before a phone call
Throughout the day, a lot of us make many a phone call. Not all of them are productive. In some jobs, the phone is also a basic communication tool, turning calls and the way we manage them into something decisive…
When a conversation is more important than a meeting
Day-to-day life in any office is full of unexpected events and urgent issues that arise with no previous warning and demand our immediate action. Many of us react by scheduling an emergency meeting to address the issue. Today we tell…
What is the ‘Eisenhower Matrix’
You have surely heard about task management according to such tasks being “urgent” or “important”. And you have surely heard about Dwight Eisenhower too, the 34th president of the United States of America. Today, we want to tell you about…
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How to run a meeting like Marissa Meyer (Yahoo)
Meetings have a bad reputation in today’s businesses for one simple reason: most of them are ineffective and their main result is the wasting of time. It is estimated that the average employee wastes more than 30 hours a month…
Improve your productivity: Become more productive in 20 steps
Improving our productivity and learning how to manage our time are key to keeping a good workflow which will help us become better professionals. Surely, you also wish the day had more than 24 hours. However, with good organization, you…
10 tricks for productivity improvement every minute of our lives
Would you like to be a productive person every minute of every hour of every day? Take note of these tricks for being productive and improving your efficiency. 1. Get up early! Getting up early has many advantages. The most…
Stop pre-occupations!
Our personal productivity system is surrounded by things that we need to do, problems that we need to solve, questions, requests, projects… All these things we are still undecided about are called “pre-occupations”. That is to say, things we worry…
How to avoid procrastination?
Putting things off for no reason is a habit that not only harms our productivity but also our happiness. When we put off a task over and over again, we should ask ourselves why we’re doing it: Do we lack…
A guide to make your commute to work more effective
Do you feel like your commute is a waste of time? For many of us, the work week doesn’t just cover our 40 hours at work but also the time it takes us to get there and back. The minutes we…
How to start the day productively?
Good morning! Starting the day productively is easy if we know how. What do you typically do when you wake up? Some people go directly to the kitchen to make the first cup of coffee of the day, others prefer…
The good time management
A good time manager decides at every moment in time what she wants to do and not what the circumstances force her to do. A good time manager is totally aware that she is able to decide what she wants…
A little advice… say “no”
To be truly productive and avoid everyday distractions it is essential to detect what is important in your life (professional and personal) . Eliminate from your life anything that is superfluous, that does not bring you anything positive and that…
Just one extra task each day can make a difference
Getting through your daily To-Do List isn’t easy. But then, when you’re done, another task gets added on top. Another one? Think about it: one extra step each day adds up to 365 tasks completed by the end of the…
Your time isn’t worth anything
That’s what the following behaviors communicate: Saying yes to everything. If we say “yes” to everything people ask of us, we hold up our priorities in response to anything that crosses out path. Saying “no” is a skill successful people…
Multi-tasking is incompatible with efficiency. Why?
Monday morning. We sit down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee and open our mail. We’re almost ready to start answering e-mails and begin our workday when suddenly the telephone rings. In the middle of the…
To Do List: the tool to be truly productive
One of the keys to avoid stress at the very beginning of the day is to learn to be planned using taks lists. Our day is full of commitments, meetings, emails, interruptions … utter chaos we must learn to control if…
Work life balance: 7 tips to improve your life
Reach a better work life balance is one of the main objectives to increase your productivity. Follow this seven tips to improve your work life balance and improve your life. 1. Avoid excessive planning Planning is important to organize the start…
How does time management simulator Triskelion work?
Simulation has been used in corporate training for developing technical skills learning since some decades ago. However its use in soft skills training is relatively recent. Soft skills training is usually more complicated because they have to be practiced in…
The importance of training and investing in productivity for companies
There are few things that generate greater consensus than the need to increase productivity. Business organisations, the media, politicians… we all compulsively chant the same mantra. But do we truly believe that the productivity of our people will be raised…