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.
Despite of your persistent structural efforts, you may still sometimes discover that you have too much of something and have to clean up. Perhaps a pile of paper (or several piles) has accumulated and surely you have ...
When was the last time you felt victorious? When was the last time you actively felt very pleased with yourself, in a sincere and honest way? When did you last ...
The other day, I got a phone call from Mai-Li Hammargren, founder and CEO for lifestyle electronics startup Mutewatch.
In a near future, ...
Let us say you are faced with the possibility to make a decision which will affect your business, the project you are running or your job. You hesitate and decide to wait and ...
When you notice that something has been neglected, when you have been unsuccessful in completing a task as planned, when piles have formed on your desk again, even though you did not want them to, when you are behind schedule again in spite of that you worked yourself up to date last Sunday, I have a suggestion on ...
You know what it is like when you really need to finish something immediately. You want to focus entirely at the task, but just then a colleague pops his head through the door and asks you to “check something”, or the phone rings and it ...
Do you often get new ideas? Have you experienced coming to think of something smart which has to do with a particular task when doing something entirely different? Do you want to get things done as smoothly as possible?
That makes us two.
This last week has been ...
To me, structure is to achieve what you want as easily as possible; to do what you want to get done with the least amount of effort.
Sometimes in my work I enter ”development-mode”.
This can be when ...
How are all your digital documents and files doing?
Are they scattered about on your computer? Some on the computer desktop, some as attachments in e-mails, a substantial amount in various locations on your hard drive, and then you have all those ...
The things we need to do are not only put on the to-do-list on our own initiative. On the contrary, we are often asked to do something by others.
It might be our boss who ...
You’ve tried it all. You have structured and systematized your workday so that you are aware of all things you need to do, you know where you have your material and you have all your various ongoing projects under control.
You know what your ...
Do you get easily distracted by all the papers on your desk when you really need to focus on a particularly difficult, complicated or urgent task?
Do these papers and piles concern ...
When I wrote about the fact that a massive clean up once in a while isn’t enough to keep our workspaces cleared from distracting clutter, in the Swedish edition of our weekly newsletter Done! before Christmas, Gun-Britt Karlsson got in touch with me.
With regards to keeping the desk clean, she wrote ...
Now I’ve chosen my words for 2011.
It took a few days for the words to fall into place this year (and perhaps they still haven’t settled in just yet).
But, here they are at long last. Stiernholm Consulting will under the year of 2011 be characterized by ...
Today, this year ends and tomorrow begins a new.
When my tempo is high in work periods during the year, I like to clarify and define my projects and next steps in detail. When I am on holiday (like right now), I prefer to relax also from that. These days, ...
We are approaching one of the times during the year when most of us take a longer continuous break. It might as well be the summer vacation, but right now it’s the Christmas holiday.?? During these breaks, a ...
Does your agenda have a tendency to quickly fill up with meetings?
Do you tend to schedule too many meetings during the day and perhaps even have colleagues who “help you out” by calling you to meetings when they know you are not due somewhere else?
Does this result in that ...
This tip is a continuation of last week’s post. In it, just as I will in this, I promote the great structural tool that the “mind-map” is, especially digital versions, that is, those made in one of the mind-map-software available for purchase or downloading free (also referred to as “open source”-software).
A mind-map is especially practical when ...
This week I spent for the most part in Kramfors, a sawmill town on the Swedish High Coast in Västernorrland, which ...
When you have a lot of information you wish to structure in such a way that you get an overview and when you need to clarify and sort out something complex – make a ...
