Does someone who has a case management system really need a to-do-list? It is apparent what to do next by looking in the system, so there is no need for you to remember anything yourself. And what about those ...
I have noticed that having and using papers in your work, especially a lot of papers, is by some people regarded as being old-fashioned. Someone shamefully confesses ...
Even if the item we need to save and store is not flat so that you can hole-punch it and file it away in a binder, we still need to keep it since we use it from time to time, although we do not want to ...
Should you separate the work related tasks from the ones related to your private life or ...
If you feel an acute need to improve on your structure, you might also feel that it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps you want to ...
A common structure-pitfall is to get stuck in your e-mail. We have a to-do-list and perhaps we even transferred it into the latest app someone recommended to us, but when we arrive at work in the morning and ...
When you have developed a well-functioning structure to lean on in your work, your working-methods will have gotten rather refined. You sort and categorize, put things in folders and assign tags. You label, group and organize. This helps you to ...
When you have so much papers and stuff surrounding you in your office (or on and by your desk if you are seated in an open office landscape) that you spend more time than you would prefer ...
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 ...
Have you also been looking for the same thing several times? It can be a digital document or a paper. Few things get me as frustrated as looking for something I put away somewhere but cannot remember where. For me this is a complete ...
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 ...
Have you ever forgotten something that ...
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 ...
Setting due dates on all our to-do-tasks is a trap that is easy to fall into. I only recommend that ...
You are assigned new tasks from time to time. As the months and years go by, the ...
