How we feel about work—how productive we believe we are, whether we think we’re contributing positively to society, our morale at work—is heavily influenced by dozens of factors that are outside our control.… Read More How We Feel About Work Can Change Even When the Work Doesn’t
Quick switches away from your primary task could cost you more than 2 hours of distracted time. And that’s not per day. That’s per switch! What’s going on with task-switching, and is it as unproductive as it seems?… Read More How Much Time Do We Lose Task-Switching?
The one-on-one meeting is one of the greatest assets that employees have, and very often they don’t know it. This type of meeting hasn’t always been as widely used as it is now, and if you don’t have regular one-on-ones, you should absolutely ask for them. A one-on-one is a recurring meeting, usually weekly, between… Read More Use Your One-on-Ones to Move Up
Regularly hearing that you’re doing a good job helps you to see why your work matters.… Read More The Power of Positive Feedback
The opposite of procrastination (putting off something you need to do for as long as possible) is precrastination: doing tasks as soon as possible, even when it’s not the right time to do them.… Read More Hey Over-Achievers! Precrastination Could Be Your Biggest Obstacle
A strategy requires a theory—you need to believe, without knowing for sure, that if you follow the strategy, you will get an outcome that you want… Read More Good Leaders Strategize, Rather Than Plan
The language focuses on the employee’s feelings and attitude rather than the quality of the leadership, which is usually the root cause of people feeling disengaged.… Read More Is ‘Employee Engagement’ a Joke?
Remote work isn’t perfect, but whether it’s worthwhile depends on what you value.… Read More Remote Work Tradeoff: Higher Productivity or More Mentorship?
So why don’t we? Because “data-driven” decisions are still biased. … Evidence in support of a four-day workweek is overwhelming.… Read More If Companies Were Data-Driven, We’d Have a 4-Day Workweek
The assumption that remote work is ‘work, but online’ is wrong and misguided. Equally, assuming that remote collaboration is ”collaboration, but online’ is incorrect. Remote collaboration is different because, when done right, it starts with zero assumptions and builds a totally new understanding of what it means to get work done… Read More Book Excerpt: Remote Work Is Not ‘Work but Online’—From The Everything Guide to Remote Work
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