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.
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 ...
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 ...
