If you work on the things that are really most important to you first thing in the day, the urgent things will still get finished. They will because they have to. It is a known time management technique that we often overlook.

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Productive people need good time management skills, and they also need to use those to keep up with their contacts, networking groups and industry trends.

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Listen to any career development expert for long, and you’re bound to hear the advice to keep up on trade magazines and books in your industry. It’s a good idea. Talk to any person who has been wildly successful, and they’ll point to continuous learning as a main reason that they were able to get [...]

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If there was one time of the year that most of us could use a boost in productivity and time management, it’s during the busy holiday season. But a blizzard of distractions – both personal and professional – can stop you from getting your best work done. Here are a handful of ways to beat [...]

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Every year, the major accounting and consulting firms release new sets of research and statistics that show how many billions of dollars in productivity are lost to American companies through fantasy football, social media, and other common workplace distractions. But while companies are busy trying to figure out ways to stop employees from engaging in [...]

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In the past few years, it’s become popular to talk about effectiveness rather than efficiency. There’s a good reason for this: it’s not enough to get things done if they weren’t the right things to be doing in the first place. But as fantastic as that insight is, it doesn’t relieve managers, executives, and professionals [...]

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Is your morning routine helping you to hit the day running… or stopping you from being as productive and creative as possible? Even though most of us understand intuitively that our personal and professional lives have a strong effect on one another, we often fail to make the connection in the day-to-day sense – especially [...]

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90% of the people who spend three or more hours a day at a computer demonstrate symptoms of computer-vision syndrome or “CVS”. (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Over 40% of Americans spend three or more hours starring at computer screens of handheld devices. (American Optometric Association) The symptoms of CVS include headaches, tiredness, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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