Stress can lead to burn-out and bad health! Build buffers into your daily schedule to avoid it. Don’t stack your calendar with back to back appointments and nonstop activity all day. Give yourself a chance to breathe and handle any mistakes or interruptions. By doing this one simple thing, you significantly reduce stress and improve … Continue reading “Why building buffers into your day reduces stress”
Tag: Productivity
How to grow your focus like a tree
It’s not often that I recommend an app to improve focus or productivity—but when I do, it’s a great one! The Forest app makes improving your focus, and therefore your productivity, into a fun game. Your focus will grow like a tree! If you found this tip useful, you’ll love the many other tips for … Continue reading “How to grow your focus like a tree”
Why effective leaders use a mistake as a training tool
When someone makes a mistake, consider: is this an incident, or is it a pattern? Incidents happen once; patterns happen multiple times. Unless the mistake is extreme, incidents can largely be ignored. If there is a pattern, then you can address the behavior and how to help them improve. If you’d like more training on … Continue reading “Why effective leaders use a mistake as a training tool”
How meeting reminders help everyone
Recently, I received a question from a LinkedIn Learning learner in my course, Leading Productive Meetings. She asked why I recommend creating meeting reminders—after all, doesn’t that lead to more interruptions? Technically, yes, but here is why I find it’s necessary. From my perspective, the advanced warning gives people an opportunity to power down from … Continue reading “How meeting reminders help everyone”
Why “multitasking” is an inefficient word
Even the word multitasking is inaccurate and inefficient. Why? Because we’re trying to use one word to describe multiple different processes. This is why I suggest we replace it with two words: Switch-tasking and Background-tasking. I go into more detail on what those words mean in the video below, so please watch to learn which … Continue reading “Why “multitasking” is an inefficient word”