At Stiernholm Consulting, we strongly believe that good structure strengthens productivity. This applies to us as individuals as well as for our organizations. Here, David Stiernholm, Struktör, shares his concrete tips on how to visualize, simplify and get more time for what is important.
There are of course worse disorders, but I really suffered from being constantly in a hurry, from arriving sweaty to meetings and ...
When you are overwhelmed with work and things to do outside of work, a useful trick to feel less stressed (and thereby more productive) is to ...
Do you find searching for an email in Outlook gives you far too many search results? I have found a guide that would help you out.
We all have tasks that we have to do on a regular basis, for example every week, the last working day of each month, or every other Tuesday. Some of my recurring tasks are ...
Once in a while the implications of our structural inefficiencies and traps are particularly apparent. The workday feels overwhelming, we run from one ...
Naming files and documents in a good way is quite an art. A common mistake ...
Rather than writing things down in a to-do-list in order to remember, I want them to get done automatically. It is wonderful knowing that ...
Sometimes we get involved in a project or workgroup where everything is happening very fast. All participating colleagues are eager to get moving on what you decide to do and ...
If you have too much to do, you have to choose not to do something. But, many of my clients who are managers and who have too much to do have a hard time not prioritizing the things the people they manage ask them to do.
But, the same goes for people as for ...
“Storing” and “doing” are not the same thing. Still, confusing them often leads to a very common ...
As you improve your structure at work, you will unquestionably gain time. You will spend less time ...
Sometimes there is just not enough time. You have a deadline fast approaching, but what you need to do takes longer than you had anticipated - much longer.
What do you do - and could you do - when ...
Even if we work digitally most of the time we sometimes need to print things. It can be something that needs to be signed, something we need to bring, something you need to complement your hand-drawn sketches with, or something else.
But, we might not ...
One aspect of structure that especially amuses me at the moment are the details in ...
Surely you have at some point gotten the recommendation to ”eat the biggest frog first” when it comes to how to structure and plan ...
Some tasks you do again and again, week after week. Should you ...
The feeling of not having any unanswered chatmessages, unread texts or ...
When the tempo is high at work, we all need to prioritize among all the tasks on our list.
One popular way to ...
Is it possibly so that you are responsible for completing a recurring task which you tend to repeatedly postpone until last second and finish just before you run out of time? If so, then you will benefit from reading this tip.
A to-do-list which is easy to use is worth its weight in gold when we want to keep track of all the things we have to do and what we promised others we would do. But not all our commitments are as brief as to-do-tasks ...
