The other week I stayed at a nice hotel in the center of Oslo. If you travel a lot, you will be aware of that the standard of hotels can vary significantly. Some places do not ...
Not all tasks we perform in our work are of equal importance. Some are the type of things we just need to get done and other tasks are of the kind that makes the business take quantum-leaps forward in the right direction. Those of us with ...
Sometimes when I tell people I am a ”struktör”, I get asked the following question: ”OK. Well, you work with this every day, tell me: ...
When we have more to be done than there is time to do things in, we need to prioritize amongst all the things we have to do. We can not do everything at the same time and perhaps not ...
From time to time, especially when things are hectic and you have a lot on your plate, it can be of great value to sit down and reflect. When we reflect on things and write down or sketch out what we need to reflect on, we get ...
Are you in the habit of breaking your day-plan?
Do you tend to have an idea of what you want to do and complete during the day in the morning, which at lunch-time makes you feel slightly queasy with stress, and which ...
Do you spend a great deal of your time at work by a computer? Does your work description include a great deal of e-mailing, phrasing and formulating things, typing things out and so on? Then you might want to consider learning the ultimate skill for drastically decreasing the time spent typing ...
We pick tasks from our to-do-list which we think we will be able to finish in the time we have at our disposal at the moment. We often make an accurate guess and manage to complete the task before it is time for something else. But sometimes we only manage to get half-way through what we are doing before we get interrupted by ...
When our lives are just spinning and you feel as if your everyday-life is like a rat race it is easy to lose sight of where you are going. Saying that it is important to explicitly formulate a vision for what you strive to achieve in the long run, is almost a truism. But I am not saying it for nothing. Remembering this will make what you do in your everyday life feel ...
On occasion, you get an idea or two. They are amazing, marvelous and exciting ideas and sometimes even show a true stroke of brilliance. If you are in luck, they fit right in with what you need to focus your strength and energy on right now. But they can often concern matters which ...
If you sense that you need to make improvements in your personal structure, there is only one way to get started. Perform a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Have you, just like me, from time to time attempted to establish a new habit, and have had some trouble with succeeding? Maybe you attempted trying a new approach to improve your personal structure.
You have used the new approach for a while, but run out of steam and direction and started to run in the same old tracks again. Sometimes ...
Choose a word, any word, and say it out loud to yourself over and over again. After a while it becomes more like a sound than a word and it looses its meaning.
I’ve experienced a similar effect at a few management team meetings. It may have been the tenth management team meeting for the year and just after lunch when we’ve come to the chart concerning how the eighth key figure is evolving, ...
In early January, Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet published a feature about the Malmö based company TAT - The Astonishing Tribe.
Among the pictures ...
This autumn I have again had the opportunity to work with a group of entrepreneurs within a project called “Spira” (in English “spire”) here in Gothenburg. In this project, ten fresh entrepreneurs get help building their business during six intense months.
My assignment was to give a talk and to hold a workshop on how to formulate a long term vision and how to break it down into short term, detailed goals and milestones to guide you on an average workday. A month later, I met with every individual entrepreneur to work on their particular questions and challenges, regarding how to reach your long term goal as easily as possible.
When I sat down with ...
We can be very efficient as individuals, but to be successful in making the company evolve into what we want it to become, we need to connect our structured and productive working habits with the overall structure of the company.
This structure can be expressed in terms of ...
