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.
When you have so much papers and stuff surrounding you in your office (or on and by your desk if you are seated in an open office landscape) that you spend more time than you would prefer ...
You cannot just work, work, work, work all the time. You need breaks as well to rest and recover. The question is ...
In order to progress in a project or with a more extensive task, we make sure to always have a next step clearly defined. It might sound obvious. But do we always adhere to this simple rule? This is particularly useful ...
Have you ever had to work very late one night and right after finally sending those last emails that have been hanging over your head a few hours past midnight the thing you least expected happens - someone responds straight away?
Use this function to ...
If you are an ”eager beaver” such as myself, then you do not like being ...
If you never ever handle physical papers in your work, you can stop reading this structure tip now. You can also consider yourself lucky to be ...
As most of you know, one way to easily get distracted at work is to do many things simultaneously or to switch tasks often. The phenomena is commonly referred to as ...
When you have a task that really want to get done now, but you find it horribly ...
We want to be able to find the documents we save in matter of seconds whenever ...
The more places we have to choose between when we have to find something, the more time we risk spending ...
We are all heading somewhere, whether we know it or not. The chance that we end up ...
Having the right information at hand just when you need it is simply amazing. If you are ...
Have you also been looking for the same thing several times? It can be a digital document or a paper. Few things get me as frustrated as looking for something I put away somewhere but cannot remember where. For me this is a complete ...
When we are speaking of having ”too much going on right now”, we are most often actually referring to all the loose ends we still have to tie up. These are half-finished projects, half-done improvement initiatives and ideas we have not yet fully implemented or realized. We have the feeling of ...
Have you ever forgotten something that ...
Annette had multiple managers that gave her tasks to perform. They all wanted her to ...
If you are in some kind of managing or leading position it might feel important to be as available to those you manage or ...
It happens far too easily that we keep our digital documents in ...
When I held a course in structure in Trollhättan, Sweden, not too long ago, one of the participants shared a trick which I thought was quite ingenious, different and fun. I am therefore glad to pass it on and share it with you today ...
When the workday is intense and the tempo is high, you will do best to ...
