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.
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? ...
Even if you establish a thoroughly thought through system for your good-to-have material (also referred to as reference-material), it will most likely evolve and grow over time. The more material you have, the more ...
Keeping track of what you have to do is one thing. To then actually do the right thing once you are doing something, is another matter entirely. To be completely honest, wouldn’t you also confess to ...
Do you want individualized help with creating a better structure at work?
For a couple of years now, I have helped managers and key people on an individual basis through our service “Individual sessions on personal efficiency”, that consists of five sessions during three months.
Every now and then, I have met people that ...
As you might be aware of, there is a method for how to correctly prioritize when categorizing tasks that you have to do by considering ...
Far too often whilst helping people in a wide range of organisations, we hear them struggle to describe what goals they have. Some do not know what goals they need to reach on a monthly basis and far too many of those who do know, have defined their goals in quite diffuse terms.
The result is ...
When so much of our daily work-related communication today is conducted by e-mail, this central tool can, if correctly used, be the backbone to good personal structure or, if not utilized optimally, be fatal to ...
Some things are easy to procrastinate. It is both understandable and there can definitely be good reason for doing so. But, here are four things you really should ...
Do you have days when it feels as if you have too much around you, going on in general as well as on your desk, in a very palpable way? Do you have so much physically in front of you as well as ahead of you that you tremble at the thought of getting started with something because there is just so much and it is so messy? Then it is time to ...
Does the fact that you frequently do duties which you have performed before, only in a different month, for a different project or for a different customer, sound familiar? It may involve extracting ...
“Having good structure is to know” my business friend replied over lunch the other day when I asked what structure means to her. Indeed, that is “tried and true”.
If you have good structure ...
