Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

You instinctively close your laptop, put on your jacket, and head out to meet your friend. Time is a scarce and valuable resource that is easy to take for granted, undervalue, or outright squander. Compared with other resources like land or money, time has three unique features. Come for dinner!” Set ambitious goals.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity?

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Be intentional with your time. And beware of the meeting trap. Time is the scarcest resource leaders have. How a leader chooses to allocate their time is a reflection on their priorities and how they lead, and directly impacts their effectiveness and the performance of the organization. Be intentional with your time.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

There it is in your inbox: a meeting invite to a meeting you really don’t want to attend. Or it’s for a time that’s already booked, and now you’re left to decide whom to turn down. Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Without corporate mandates such as weekly team meetings or biweekly project check-ins, entrepreneurs have the ability to wipe out bureaucratic red tape and reach new heights of productivity. Here are four strategies self-employed professionals can use to schedule meetings more effectively. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

I have also found that this habit of time tracking acts as a tool to help me batch tasks (i.e. Manage your tasks. During any given workday your time will likely be spent on a combination of: Independently working. Attending meetings. Attending meetings. Also, it’s important to identify your role in each meeting.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Does Your Organization Need Better People Leader Time Management? Have you ever gone through the popular new manager training exercise of logging how you actually spend your time day each day as a people leader? This is often the first step in learning how to better manage your time and be a more effective leader.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” Paul Garbett for HBR. Please do not disturb.”

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2021

All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. Managers meet 30 minutes after that, followed by directors, VPs, and finally the executive team. It also eliminates both countless status check emails and the need to cover that topic in meetings.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 4, 2021

The value of time is derived from the fact that we must each make reasonable use of the 24 hours we have been allotted in order to live a balanced life that is not only productive but also healthy, happy, and fulfilling. Effective time management can be applied to complete tasks, maintain relationships, and enjoy recreational activities.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Tips for First Time Managers to Start Off on the Right Foot. Does becoming a first time manager make you feel as if you are leaping off a cliff without a safety net? If you are being promoted to a management position, you have most likely succeeded as an individual contributor. How do you spend your 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.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Through teamwork you learn how to assert your position and also how compromise in all areas where a decision needs to be made: separating roles and responsibilities, selecting fonts and graphics to use in a presentation, creating a meeting agenda, deciding on a meeting place and time, you get the idea. Time management.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

Let me show the impact management decision delays had on one team: The managers started their portfolio decision meeting. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. The teams spent about a day of forecasting work, but the managers didn't take the time to meet again for three weeks.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Meeting had devolved – in an effort to be inclusive, they included large numbers of people from across the organization, but little was being accomplished in the time allotted and many felt confused as to why they were required to attend. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails.

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Managing your time, leads to managing your life. Real time management is self-management. Implement these peak performance techniques: Follow a personal management system – for organization, scheduling, goal tracking, and time management. Meeting, ideas, activity, goal).

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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 1: Am I meeting expectations? For people who have a well-defined job scope, answering this question may be easy: Did you meet the project milestones?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Here’s a system to help them set aside time for their most important work.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2024

Employers should therefore create and tailor flexible work policies to meet diverse employee needs, fostering satisfaction and retention.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

Unfortunately, managers typically have very limited visibility into what their own behaviors may be signaling to their team and how the team might be reacting. We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. Multitasking in Meetings.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

AI-powered tools offer individuals a range of ways to boost their individual productivity including assistance with task prioritization, time management, professional development, and a range of other activities. By using AI-powered time management tools you can reduce the time spent on manually scheduling tasks.

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The Clever Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2015

A lot of drama, anxiety and procrastination comes from open communication loops – emails we need to send, phone calls that should be made, or in-person meetings that need to happen. When you’re feeling overworked and there’s too much on your plate, it might help to separate the real work from the follow-ups.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2019

Creative ways to find the time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2020

A simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Having a meeting-free day. Establishing one day with no meetings is a technique that I used throughout 2016 to complete a book proposal and write the manuscript for my third book. It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. A meeting-free day isn’t the best option for everyone.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. This is true about what it takes to be a successful leader.

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The Management Centre

AUGUST 10, 2020

These could be interviews for new jobs, or meetings with new supporters, or pitches. Here, Yvette Gyles , =mc Director and coach explains how to prepare for such meetings with confidence. For example: Question: this role requires excellent time management. How do you manage your time? Interviews are tough.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As a manager, one of your responsibilities is to remove obstacles and barriers – and an uncomplicated way to do this is to “trim the fat” off your team’s schedule. Identify the meetings that can be eliminated, take tasks that you ought to tackle, and shift things around that make sense.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Benefits of Management Teams. Management teams help the organization in many ways: Management teams reduce overall decision time. Individual managers reduce their cycle time. Managers can remove organizational impediments that cross teams. Your management teams don’t need to be formal.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. The organization lives with many delays when the managers choose a shared services model. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. You will have an easier time managing the project portfolio.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

It wasn’t long after becoming a manager that I found I had landed on a seemingly endless treadmill of meetings. I was participating in so many that I barely had time to prep, let alone tackle the to-do lists I was taking away. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

How many times have you walked out of a theoretically important meeting—a leadership offsite, a C-suite pow-wow, a sit-down with the board—thinking, That was a great discussion, but I’m not sure we really accomplished anything ? We see this happen all the time when clients hire us to help manage offsites.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Reducing meetings can be a powerful force to create space for focused work. Question whether you need meetings for certain projects as well as their length and frequency. For example, going from a weekly 60-minute meeting to a biweekly 45-minute meeting can save each meeting attendee 2.5 hours a month.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%. The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

Studies show that socializing, despite feeling like a daunting task, can be effective in combating mental fatigue by energizing us.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Employees who take advantage of the situation may neglect or avoid participating in virtual meetings, discussions, or projects. Also, do it yourself.

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