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.
In times like these, it is more important than ever to work efficiently in the sense that we spend our time doing the right things. ??Now is the perfect time to better refine and elucidate our tasks and assignments so that we really have time for the most important ones, meaning, those which ...
We who do our best to be structured, do it because we want to move forward; we want a progressive movement in our life, in our careers or in our business.
What this “forward” looks like, is different for all of us, but what we have in common is that we decide to achieve something and then work as smoothly as possible in order to succeed. ??That’s why we need to see if we are actually moving forward, as well as define things we can do actively so that we’re truly taking steps in the right direction.
This means that ...
Isn’t it nice when everything falls into place, when you go from clarity to clarity, when your job runs smoothly and you really feel you’re getting something done???
Well, every now and then, everything stalls.?? You know what it can be like: ...
You spend quite a substantial amount of hours of your life working every week. If everything you do is about the details here and now, you’ll find that everything just keeps on spinning.
??You might have become quite good at ...
Today, I’m back in Gothenburg after two days in Therese Albrechtson’s and Gustaf Oscarsons’s enjoyable company. I had the pleasure of being responsible for the first of nine keys in Academy of Excellence, the training program for owners of rapidly growing companies that Therese and Gustaf have started. It was a ...
When was the last time you had an empty e-mail inbox? Do you remember how it felt???
Many of us have a lot of e-mails in our inboxes and believe it or not, but ...
Are you in the habit of writing a new to-do-list every morning? Do you have to transfer tasks from yesterday’s list to today’s list, because you didn’t have time for what you had in mind? ??
Do you then feel ...
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at KY-Akademien, a college for advanced vocational education and training here in Gothenburg, Sweden. The audience was the students at the two-year programme for Advertising and Marketing and my topic was “Vision and goals (and how it really works in everyday life),” on how to do to define a long-term vision for yourself or your business and break it down into shorter, more detailed milestones (and in particular on the importance thereof).
At the end of the half day seminar, ...
When you decide to improve your personal structure in some way, by starting to work with new tools, by from now on planning your time differently or even simply stop doing something you have done before, it is easy to slip back into old habits, into a rut.
??Your new approach works brilliantly for a while, but ...
Last Tuesday, it was time for me to give my first Pecha Kucha-talk.
It was incredibly fun and an experience that I truly can recommend each and everyone.
If you have ...
Are you a time-optimist to the point that you often drive like a maniac the last bit just to make it in time for the meeting? ??Is it more common for you to rush off rather than stop for a moment and make sure you’ve got everything you need before you step out the door?
Wouldn’t it be nicer if ...
Is not summer amazing this year?
At the moment, I still have a good week left of salty baths and excursions, but soon it is getting time to start working again.
The first thing that happens is that ...
You know how it is. You’ve got a task you really need to get done right now, but you keep getting distracted by other things.??
Maybe you have writer’s block or think the task is so boring that you find it hard to work focused with it. You check your e-mail, flip though Facebook, call someone just for fun, you go and get another cup of coffee and happen to hang around the coffee machine for a while and small talk, read an online newspaper, Google something you’ve come to think about, and so on.??
You do anything except what you actually know is the right thing to do right now.??
Now you are going to learn ...
Every now and then, I am invited to speak about structure and productivity at breakfast- or lunch-seminars hosted by business networks, business associations etc.
A short while ago, it was at a Rotary Club in Kungälv, Sweden, and again I was astonished by with what warmth the Rotarians receive their guests (me included). As tradition dictates, I had the privilege to sit at the president’s table and we began to talk about ...
Do you feel that you’re constantly lagging a little behind with what you’ve got to do, that you always complete what you’re working with at the last moment, that deadline is always a bit too close??? From time to time I experience this myself and ...
If you are in the habit of using a to-do list, it probably mostly consists of tasks you’ve realized you have to do and therefore wrote on the list. They are tasks you will carry out soon after that and then cross off or delete.?? But you have to keep even less information in your head if you let the to-do-list generate new tasks on its own.?? We all have tasks we perform on a regular basis. It may be tasks that you ...
OK, let us say that we succeed in clearing our desk as completely as if it were a desk in an IKEA showroom. It is free from piles of documents so that we easily can focus on the task at hand, without being distracted by stuff we do not need at the moment.
Then, it is a pity if what we see instead are ...
Many of us experience chaos from time to time in our everyday life when we are flooded by a constant stream of proposals, information and messages, more or less unchecked, through too many different channels. It’s as if we are exposed to a bunch of pipelines which deliver contributions to our everyday planning.
??If we’re not to drown in piles of paper, ...
I just hung up after a follow up over the phone with a customer of mine that is halfway through my program “Individual sessions in personal productivity”.
He has learned to ...
The fact that papers and documents which are trash should be thrown away and that good-to-have-material should be saved may sound obvious.
??However, ...
