If you want to quickly be able to assess if you have enough time to complete a task of not, there is a simple method you can use to make it easier to identify how long each task takes to complete ...
There is a word which is sometimes deceivingly tempting to use. There we are at the management conference we have every six months to set the course for the six months to come. It is at the end of the day and we are quite drained after a full day of discussions. The word starts emerging in everyone’s mind, and before you know it, someone says it ...
Do you use your calendar as a to-do-list? Are you successful in ...
You might think that the problems arising from distractions, disruptions, disturbing sounds and other things that makes it difficult to concentrate are products of the 21st century´s communication-intense way of doing business ...
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 ...
Are you one of those who tend to postpone something you have to do, week after week, without really knowing why you do this? Speaking for myself, I ...
If you sense that you need to make improvements in your personal structure, there is only one way to get started. Perform a ...
Are you in despair when it comes to your personal structure? Don’t be. Read this and see if it helps ...
A question I frequently get when I am out lecturing is how often you should go through your e-mail. My guess is that what makes this such a common question is that ...
Have you ever experienced that you have been asked or assigned to do something, but later on it turns out that you and whoever made the request had a different view of how the task or service was to be performed. And perhaps ...
Do you have a feeling that you actually strain yourself more than necessary? Do you have more to do than you are in fact comfortable with? Do you have things you would like to do, but never seem to have time for? OK. Then it appears as if you might ...
There are numerous ways in which to handle the moments when we feel overwhelmed with work.
The problem might be that ...
Once upon a time there was a young man (and that young man was me) who was about to introduce a rather radical idea to a potential partner, who in this case was a slightly older man.
Me and my colleague were attempting to ...
There are several pitfalls to fall into when it comes to structure. One of the ones I encounter most frequently when helping my clients is ...
With all certainty, you have experienced that something didn’t turn out quite the way you had expected it to. How to deal with the situation may differ, but what can, and should, remain constant is a positive and open approach to the whole scenario. There are two words whick sum this approach to improvisation up. Open the blog-post to find out ...
Of all the things you have to do, some can be done in one go (classic to-do-tasks), while other things need to be regarded as larger projects.These projects can be long, large and extensive with numerous different activities, but they might as well ...
Do you have an “open door”-policy at your office? What I mean to say is; does your company culture encompass the reasoning that “in this workplace we never close the door since this is a place in which we are always available for each other”? This can at times put us in an awkward situation when we need our space but others are less inclined to provide us with uninterrupted time. Here is my suggestion as to how to solve the dilemma ...
Do you have a reading-pile? A pile for what you are going to read? If you do, when you look at it, what do you feel? Do you long for when you ...
When you are receiving more emails than you would like, when you feel that your colleagues are constantly disturbing you, when you can’t get many feet outside of your office-door before someone stops you to ask for something – then this might be due to ...
I am sure you have experienced hindrances in what you do in some way, shape or form. For instance, you have been kept waiting for someone to return before you can resume working or you have been kept on hold in some other way which has frustrated you. But, you can avoid this awful frustration altogether if you take matters into your own hands and instead make use of the situation being what it is ...
