”I am unsuccessful in becoming more structured. What am I doing wrong?”
Datum: 2011-11-23 11:00
Are you in despair when it comes to your personal structure? Don’t be. Read this and see if it helps ...
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 ...
If you are like me, the summer vacation works as a cleansing bath for the thoughts regarding your job. If so, just like me, you think more clearly about your job after ...
Have you experienced returning to the office after a few weeks holiday only to find that the e-mail inbox is virtually overflowing with hundreds of unread e-mails?
“Welcome back!”
Wouldn’t you agree that this does not exactly give you the best feeling upon your return? ...
Even if you establish a thoroughly thought through system for your good-to-have material (also referred to as reference-material), it will most likely evolve and grow over time. The more material you have, the more ...
Keeping track of what you have to do is one thing. To then actually do the right thing once you are doing something, is another matter entirely. To be completely honest, wouldn’t you also confess to ...
As you might be aware of, there is a method for how to correctly prioritize when categorizing tasks that you have to do by considering ...
When so much of our daily work-related communication today is conducted by e-mail, this central tool can, if correctly used, be the backbone to good personal structure or, if not utilized optimally, be fatal to ...
Some things are easy to procrastinate. It is both understandable and there can definitely be good reason for doing so. But, here are four things you really should ...