If you are one of the many who are seeking a new job at this time, you can easily become frustrated and find days slipping by without much to show.  No matter what your current employment status, there are many proactive approaches that you can take to have a productive day. 
It is interesting that the best strategies are ones [...]

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According to the American Time Use Survey, we spent less time working, on average, in 2009, compared with 2007, which means we had more time to engage in other activities. 
A common lament that I constantly hear in my time management training sessions is the lack of time in our days.  “If only I had time, [...]

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Just a delay of 30 minutes in starting the school day boosted sleep times, mood, and health for adolescents.  Although this study involved teenagers, there are problems at every age with sleep deprivation and how it affects the workplace.
Therefore it is advantageous to examine the results of a recent study published in the July in [...]

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Productivity doesn’t need to be complicated. While truly mastering the art of organization and time management doesn’t happen overnight, there’s lots of simple and small changes you can make right away that will dramatically boost your output. If you feel like you’ve been lagging or you’re searching for ways to accomplish more work in less [...]

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We’ve been hearing for years about the paperless office, and great strides have been made in this direction.  Yet somehow there are still hard copies of documents on desks and scribbled notes everywhere.  Paper calendars continue to sell, and business cards accumulate in stacks and in drawers.
The push in recent years for getting on the electronic bandwagon [...]

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Many of my clients and my audiences at our time management training seminars express dismay at their inability to remember names and events of the past.  Yet these are all highly functioning, working individuals.  The complaints rise with age although there is no associated disease causing these slips.
Now there is a good reason for people [...]

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Do you think you can easily do two or three things at a time?  You probably feel that you are good at multitasking and that you have had a lot of practice.  You might even consider it part of good time management training.  However, how do you feel about the person driving the car next [...]

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Twice a year we’re told to change our clocks–”Spring Forward, Fall Back”–for Daylight Savings Time.
This may seem to be as predictable a ritual as the seasons themselves. But it’s actually a rather fluid concept that was first standardized 120 years ago by railroad executives so they could have an official noon to make their schedules [...]

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Executive Function: assessing, prioritizing, assigning mental functions, tracking multiple activities, reflecting
These are all characteristics that a good executive performs daily. They are also the tasks that emanate from your brain’s prefrontal cortex. This region of your brain is the one that sustains the most damage from prolonged periods of stress.
In our fast-paced daily lives, as [...]

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In a post that I wrote last week about crisis management, I presented some techniques for limiting the pressure of deadlines. Responding to this, one reader commented that it wasn’t useful advice for those “on the front lines who don’t have jobs that come with laptops, travel, and corporate jargon.”
I recognize that not everyone can [...]

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