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 ...
The more places we have to choose between when we have to find something, the more time we risk spending ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the reasons some people pause one task to work on another for a moment is ..
Setting due dates on all our to-do-tasks is a trap that is easy to fall into. I only recommend that ...
Let us say that there are things you do at work more than once, perhaps even relatively often. And they are not tiny tasks either, but rather ...
Christmas if fast approaching and with it a few days holiday (at least for most of us). If not, then at least ...
In this first in a series of videos for 3minTalk.com, I share five ideas about ...
I have had a template calendar for years and it has ...
When I held an open full day seminar about structure at work in Stockholm recently, Anna Diop told me that ...
Bank and payment service supplier Klarna asked me to share four focus hacks that ...
A common structure pitfall is that we try a new to-do-list tool for a while but then stop using it, whereupon we ...
The researchers Mark, Gonzalez and Harris at the University of California have conducted a study on how often we get interrupted ...
People have always had various ideas on how to get things done with the least amount of ...
Many of those I meet during my lectures and who write to me feel stressed due to the seemingly endless ...
