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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration. For longer meetings, consider incorporating breaks to maintain focus and energy levels.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. That allows the sales associates to focus on serving customers rather than wasting time and energy managing transactions. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Redesign Jobs. ” she continues.

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3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For

Harvard Business

You can look for these scheduling holes serendipitously, or deliberately schedule in a half-hour of grunt work every day, perhaps at the end of the workday, when most professionals’ energy is waning and your ability to do creative thinking has tapered off. Finally, you could procrastinate strategically.

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I Ran 4 Experiments to Break My Social Media Addiction. Here’s What Worked.

Harvard Business

Before beginning my experiments, I tracked my daily behavior to better understand where my time and energy was going, which gave me insight into what I could change to produce more satisfying deep work. It was easier to replace a bad habit with a better one than to focus all my energy on eliminating the bad habit.

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Stop Scheduling Conference Calls and Finally Commit to Videoconferencing

Harvard Business

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. Watch this very amusing “ conference call in real life ” video to see how ineffective these calls can be. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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Strategies for Managing your time and boundaries

Brimstone Consulting

The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever. Tim Wentworth, President Cigna Services, cites vigilant time management as one of the keys to his success as the leader of a major organization.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. Kearney and other firms have operations in the country and a variety of services are offered in strategy, management, digital, HR, financial services, public sector, energy, and healthcare. BCG, McKinsey, Bain, A.T.