Many of us work more or less completely digitally. Paper is almost passé to those who do. But they still can not seem to escape ...
When we are about to do something new, something neither we nor our colleagues have done before, it can be hard to know ...
If we see our phone laying on the desk when we sit by the computer working, our cognitive abilities (meaning memory and problem solving) are lowered ...
What should we do in the situation where we, in addition to our own to-do-list, have plans and tasks concerning workgroups and projects in other task management tools? It is ...
Most people want to use the time we spend working as efficiently as possible - partly because we then have time to do the things that will have the greatest impact and are most important in our work, and partly ...
Like many times before, I got a certain question during one of my lectures last week: “All this structuring - doesn’t it take a lot of time?”. I understand ...
To withdraw, close the door behind you and make sure that you are not disturbed when you need to focus on a prioritized task is only possible to do wholeheartedly when ...
Let us say you want to create a better structure at work. You are constantly overwhelmed and want to get organized so that it becomes ...
When we have difficult and demanding tasks to do, the kind where we need to be creative, some of us tend to ...
Have you ever been in charge of a recurring meeting in a project or a collaboration, and when the meeting is about to start you ask yourself “What are we going to talk about today?” - and you have gone completely blank?
Some of us save documents on the computer desktop. It may feel as a good idea, because then we can ...
We all need to work uninterrupted from time to time. When we have a difficult task before us it often requires ...
When the deadline is drawing closer, there is still a lot of work to get done, and the pressure is rising, people ...
When I gave a talk recently, one of the participants said: ”Yes, but if I make a to-do-list instead of having everything I need scattered on my desk, how am I supposed to ...
Sometimes we simply have too much to deal with. We are already doing what we perceive as our very best and still we barely ...
During the break in the middle of a lecture I held the other day, one of the participants asked me: ”But what about all the ...
When things get hectic and we have numerous tasks to choose from on our to do list, we need to make it as easy as possible to ...
In order to prioritize according to something other than by how urgent a task is, we need ...
When it comes to reminders, push-notifications and notifiers of other sorts, I always recommend adhering to the rule-of-thumb that ...
When do you write things on your to-do-list? This is a question I get once in a while. For the people who are used to ...
