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.
A question I frequently get when I am out lecturing is how often you should go through your e-mail. My guess is that what makes this such a common question is that ...
Have you ever experienced that you have been asked or assigned to do something, but later on it turns out that you and whoever made the request had a different view of how the task or service was to be performed. And perhaps ...
Do you have a feeling that you actually strain yourself more than necessary? Do you have more to do than you are in fact comfortable with? Do you have things you would like to do, but never seem to have time for? OK. Then it appears as if you might ...
Last week, our David Stiernholm was profiled in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. The topic was ...
There are numerous ways in which to handle the moments when we feel overwhelmed with work.
The problem might be that ...
Once upon a time there was a young man (and that young man was me) who was about to introduce a rather radical idea to a potential partner, who in this case was a slightly older man.
Me and my colleague were attempting to ...
There are several pitfalls to fall into when it comes to structure. One of the ones I encounter most frequently when helping my clients is ...
With all certainty, you have experienced that something didn’t turn out quite the way you had expected it to. How to deal with the situation may differ, but what can, and should, remain constant is a positive and open approach to the whole scenario. There are two words whick sum this approach to improvisation up. Open the blog-post to find out ...
Of all the things you have to do, some can be done in one go (classic to-do-tasks), while other things need to be regarded as larger projects.These projects can be long, large and extensive with numerous different activities, but they might as well ...
Do you have an “open door”-policy at your office? What I mean to say is; does your company culture encompass the reasoning that “in this workplace we never close the door since this is a place in which we are always available for each other”? This can at times put us in an awkward situation when we need our space but others are less inclined to provide us with uninterrupted time. Here is my suggestion as to how to solve the dilemma ...
Do you have a reading-pile? A pile for what you are going to read? If you do, when you look at it, what do you feel? Do you long for when you ...
High above the clouds I am working on a talk I am to give at a conference in a few weeks.
I have been asked to speak of how ...
When you are receiving more emails than you would like, when you feel that your colleagues are constantly disturbing you, when you can’t get many feet outside of your office-door before someone stops you to ask for something – then this might be due to ...
The autumn is one of our two peak seasons during the year and this autumn too, the unbooked dates are scarce. But, ...
I am sure you have experienced hindrances in what you do in some way, shape or form. For instance, you have been kept waiting for someone to return before you can resume working or you have been kept on hold in some other way which has frustrated you. But, you can avoid this awful frustration altogether if you take matters into your own hands and instead make use of the situation being what it is ...
I definitely have a tendency to quickly move on to the next thing and the ...
If you are like me, the summer vacation works as a cleansing bath for the thoughts regarding your job. If so, just like me, you think more clearly about your job after ...
On Thursday the 7th of July, I went to Voo Store in Berlin’s Kreuzberg in order to attend the global launch party for Swedish watch maker Mutewatch‘s first watch - the minimalistic watch with a silent alarm.
Between Beautiful Swimmers’ disco and ...
Ever since I little over a year ago for the first time heard Mai-Li Hammargren speak of the watch with a soundless vibrating alarm she was developing, I have from time to time been in situations when ...
Have you experienced returning to the office after a few weeks holiday only to find that the e-mail inbox is virtually overflowing with hundreds of unread e-mails?
“Welcome back!”
Wouldn’t you agree that this does not exactly give you the best feeling upon your return? ...
