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For those of us who wish to refine how we work so that we get a smoother workday, it is a true privilege that ...

More and more of the organizations I help are transitioning into using Microsoft’s Office 365 Online. There are of course still ...

I have not yet met the person who never has to work concentrated and undisturbed with some form of task. And neither have I met ...

Some days are just so busy. You work and work, and suddenly the workday is over. Suddenly it is Friday again. And before you know it, it is time for a holiday. The intense workdays turn into ...

Sometimes we suddenly have more to do in a day than we originally planned and have time for ...

During an interview I gave the other day I was asked ”Isn’t there a risk that we structure things too much?”. I understand this concern, and I ...

One of the reasons why we sometimes have such an overwhelming amount of things to do, is that we are doing ...

What is best - making meeting notes using pen and paper or writing them digitally on a laptop or a tablet? As in so many other situations ...

When I speak to my clients about what ”steals” their time, ”inefficient ...

There is something paradoxically wonderful and thrilling about not prioritizing at all, but just improvising everything, putting out fires and doing what is either urgent, happens to come into our field of view or what we are asked by others to do ...

You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...

When did you last snooze a reminder? Was it this morning or just a few minutes ago? Or, do you not even use the reminder-function? A client asked me the other day about how to ...

Phone meetings and other remote meetings without camera are certainly not like other meetings. There are a few of us who ...

Done, done, done - don’t you just love the feeling of getting something done, when it is over, when we can cross it off our list, and when we have gotten one step further? I sure do. But somehow, some things never seem to get done ...

A great thing about digital material is that you can do a search for it. Or rather, we can let the ...

Some of us have quite a few meetings to attend every week - so many in fact that we have difficulties finding time to ...

If we are keeping track of all the things we need to do, have organized the materials we need, and manage our flows of information so systematically that we feel on top of things ...

Occasionally someone, a colleague for instance, asks us to do something and we respond ...

If you have plenty of meetings but not plenty of time between the meetings to do all those things you promised you would do before next meeting, you are ...

There is so much to do. We have a to-do-list of considerable length already and ...