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Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2024
Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into management for doing their previous job well. But once you’re promoted into a leadership role, you must accept that you can’t do everything on your own — nor should you.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2024
This article includes a curated list of HBR articles and podcast episodes to help you manage yourself, your team, and your organization when you’re consumed with what’s happening outside of work.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Five common mistakes to avoid.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 23, 2021
Focus on the root causes of why you’re so busy — not trying to schedule your way out of it.
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Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. The WSJ introduced us to the workers at Rheingans Digital Enabler in Germany, who only put in five-hour days, for a workweek of 25 hours.
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Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2022
Seven practical steps for managers.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2021
Lessons from a management and leadership professor on true effectiveness and productivity.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 7, 2025
Confronting direct reports about performance issues can feel overwhelming, especially for first-time managers, who may worry that sharing critical feedback could damage their relationship with the employee. But performance conversations, especially where you need to give critical feedback, dont have to be scary.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 29, 2020
Your productivity hinges on these three skills.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 11, 2024
In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day. Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In this article, the author offers five strategies to overcome procrastination on ambiguous but essential tasks: 1) Get clear on the vision. It’s human nature to procrastinate — but it can be devastating for your future goals if you continually procrastinate on projects that are important but not urgent. 2) Identify concrete steps.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2023
If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2024
In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run. Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.
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Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 16, 2019
You have just sat down for the evening in your study at home to write an important article. The article is not due tomorrow, and discussion with your friend is always lively and entertaining. Time is a resource that is easy to undervalue and difficult to manage. Come for dinner!” Set ambitious goals.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In this article, the author outlines how to intentionally harness your curiosity to maximize your results instead of undermine them: First, identify what’s useful to your work, and hold off on everything else for later. It can help you slow down and reflect, so you can solve business problems, build better relationships, and reduce stress.
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Consulting Success
AUGUST 12, 2022
“CRM” stands for customer relationship management, a type of software that helps you manage relationships with your current and prospective clients. Without a CRM, you’ll have a tough time managing the relationships that you build. Your CRM will help you easily manage key. Consulting is a relationship business.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better.
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
As mentioned in a previous article, most business schools require either a GMAT or GRE score for their MBA programs. However, based on my own experience with the GMAT, achieving a competitive score requires a significant investment of both time and money. These test scores typically account for about 20% of the overall application.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 2, 2024
As a first-time manager, you might be unsure of how much autonomy to give your team members. The proliferation of remote and hybrid work makes striking a balance between over- and undermanaging even trickier.
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The Management Centre
MAY 31, 2022
And there comes a point when even fitting in the fun stuff can be exhausting, because we’re already worn out from trying to do all the other things, all the time. You’ve probably already encountered at least a few time management tools in your career. Sound familiar? They’re great – they genuinely work.
Consulting Success
MARCH 22, 2018
Productivity Boost for Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2023
Advice from a time-management coach on navigating four key phases of the process.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 30, 2018
The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time. We found that employees’ use of time-management planning had strong positive effects on their daily engagement and daily productivity.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2023
Instead, this article offers new tips for how to balance work and meetings and suggests questions you can ask yourself when planning your day. Both strategies can actually diminish your ability to recharge and replenish during the day, which can be a detriment to your work.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Interruptions, both external and self-inflicted, are no longer the exception; theyve become our default mode. How can you strengthen your attention and stay on track?
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Maybe you’re even reading this article to do so. In becoming hyperaware of how I spent my time, I noticed something: I procrastinated a lot more often than I had originally thought. To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Staying Focused.
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Harvard Business
JULY 25, 2018
” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” Question 3: Am I owning my time management and using productivity resources? Part one is: “Am I owning my time management”? hbrstaff/birdimages/Getty Images.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 2, 2025
Employees with children have to make calculated decisions about who they interact with, and when, in order to both produce high-quality work and make time for caregiving.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2023
In addition to assembling tangible examples that demonstrate your managerial credentials, take an objective assessment of the gaps in your experience, knowledge, and management skills. To determine which skills and knowledge you need to improve or develop to become an effective first-time manager, ask yourself these 10 questions.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 11, 2018
Inspired by a colleague, the time management expert Laura Vanderkam , I decided to spend the month of February tracking exactly how I spent my time, down to half-hour increments. In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management.
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Markovitz Consulting
JANUARY 12, 2021
(Note: a modified version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own).
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Tom Spencer
APRIL 12, 2024
Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. Starting and ending on time is a mark of professionalism and demonstrates an appreciation for the value of everyone’s time.
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Tom Spencer
MARCH 31, 2023
Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Effective time management involves an ongoing and regular process of organising your schedule so that time is allocated to all of the important aspects of your life.
88 Harvard Business
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In order to reach these objectives, you need to ensure you’ve aligned your time with them as well. Team Building Articles. I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items. I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items.
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CaseInterview.com
OCTOBER 31, 2018
When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. When I write articles like this one, that typically uses up one MEU per article when I’m writing at a modest pace. Instead, pay attention to, manage, and optimize your life around your mental energy. There are 24 hours in a day.
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Management Consulted
MAY 29, 2016
Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a compilation of 82 valuable articles called Perspectives, 4 Harvard-reviewed business articles and 8 other articles written by various members of The Boston Consulting group between 1968 to 2005. QUICK OVERVIEW. OVERALL SUMMARY & CONCLUSION.
Harvard Business
JULY 4, 2017
Learning how to plan — especially if you’re new to organizing your time — can be a frustrating experience. As a time management coach, I’ve seen some incredibly intelligent people struggle to plan. As a time management coach, I’ve intuitively picked up on the importance of this truth.
134 Harvard Business
AUGUST 31, 2018
Over half of Americans leave some vacation time on the table. As a time management coach, I’ve observed that pre-vacation work stress typically falls into two buckets: completing work before your departure and being away from the office. Both of these categories can trigger guilt and even fear.
132 Harvard Business
AUGUST 30, 2018
For example, today I set three intentions: finish a draft of this article, have fun in two media interviews that have been scheduled, and finalize a slide deck for a talk next week. Making a task into a game forces you to spend more attention and energy on that project because it can no longer occupy hours of your time.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
If someone you manage is complaining to you about the amount of grunt work they have, you need to figure out a way to help them get over their frustration and see that everyone on the team has grunt work they have to do, and also learn to manage their time so that they don’t short-change higher-value activities.
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Tom Spencer
JULY 15, 2022
This article outlines the differences in time commitments for graduate students versus full-time consultants. This will help you practice being a consultant and improve your time management skills before graduation. Time Commitments in Graduate School. You did not read enough articles?
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Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2016
But if you used Evernote, all your notes would be in one place, because Evernote makes it easy to collect and organize your notes, whether they consist of the first draft you typed directly into an Evernote note, a business card you snapped and stored (so it’s now text searchable) or an online article you’ve clipped.
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