A common structure-pitfall is to get stuck in your e-mail. We have a to-do-list and perhaps we even transferred it into the latest app someone recommended to us, but when we arrive at work in the morning and ...
I am sure that you have heard that you will be able to focus more easily if ...
When you have developed a well-functioning structure to lean on in your work, your working-methods will have gotten rather refined. You sort and categorize, put things in folders and assign tags. You label, group and organize. This helps you to ...
Do really every participant attend the entire meeting? Often not, apparently. Magnus, a participant at one of my seminars recently, told me about ...
When you have so much papers and stuff surrounding you in your office (or on and by your desk if you are seated in an open office landscape) that you spend more time than you would prefer ...
You cannot just work, work, work, work all the time. You need breaks as well to rest and recover. The question is ...
In order to progress in a project or with a more extensive task, we make sure to always have a next step clearly defined. It might sound obvious. But do we always adhere to this simple rule? This is particularly useful ...
If you are an ”eager beaver” such as myself, then you do not like being ...
If you never ever handle physical papers in your work, you can stop reading this structure tip now. You can also consider yourself lucky to be ...
As most of you know, one way to easily get distracted at work is to do many things simultaneously or to switch tasks often. The phenomena is commonly referred to as ...
When you have a task that really want to get done now, but you find it horribly ...
We want to be able to find the documents we save in matter of seconds whenever ...
The more places we have to choose between when we have to find something, the more time we risk spending ...
Having the right information at hand just when you need it is simply amazing. If you are ...
Have you also been looking for the same thing several times? It can be a digital document or a paper. Few things get me as frustrated as looking for something I put away somewhere but cannot remember where. For me this is a complete ...
When we are speaking of having ”too much going on right now”, we are most often actually referring to all the loose ends we still have to tie up. These are half-finished projects, half-done improvement initiatives and ideas we have not yet fully implemented or realized. We have the feeling of ...
Annette had multiple managers that gave her tasks to perform. They all wanted her to ...
When I held a course in structure in Trollhättan, Sweden, not too long ago, one of the participants shared a trick which I thought was quite ingenious, different and fun. I am therefore glad to pass it on and share it with you today ...
We need more than our computer, phone and papers to do our work. Other tools are important too, such as ...
