What can you accomplish in 15 minutes? Quite a bit! I shared some productivity tips with writer Lisa Rabasca Roepe for her recent Fast Company article, "Got 15 Spare Minutes? Here's How to Make It Count." This article focuses on how to use those stray pockets of time...
Personal productivity tools make managing your own workload easier. And project management tools help with wrangling group work. But there's a big gap between the two, and that's a problem. Think about all the tasks on your plate for the next week or so. Some of those...
When your to-do list feels out of control, try thinking small. That's one of my strategies featured in the article "The 12 Secrets of Productive Entrepreneurs" on the blog for the e-learning site Daily Bits Of. The article's author, Mickey Gast, noticed how much...
In order to be productive, you need the right components. And there are more high-tech tools than ever before. Choosing among them can be dizzying, but there are really only a few things you need to remember. Productivity Tools One, your productivity tools have to be...
What did you really accomplish last week? If you can’t remember doing anything that matters amid all the email and other busywork, it’s time to power up your productivity habits. Here's list of 15 tips from my Empowered Productivity System to help you learn how to be...
Time management is an outdated concept, and many of the traditional "tips" aren't relevant for the 21st century. One typical piece of “time management” advice that is contrary to effective task management is to try to estimate on your to-do list how long each task...
The thoughts ping you at random: “I need to talk to Brenda about pushing back this deliverable…” An hour later: “I have to ask Joe about the pricing for the client proposal….” Twenty minutes after that: “I wonder if Luis has finished researching new project...
Several months ago I wrote an article about productivity and time management tools (also called PIMs for "personal information managers"), and I ended that by writing, "the process is the missing piece to using any tool successfully." The most important element of...
