When I talk to people about prioritising their workload or their time, I almost always use Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix. It's been around a long time, but I love how it often reveals our inherent tendency to focus on urgent tasks at the expense...
Parkinson's Law Have you heard of Parkinson's Law? It is the adage that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion', first articulated by British bureaucrat Cyril Northcote Parkinson. Or sometimes shortened to "Work expands to fill time". We see Parkinson's Law...
As we begin to emerge from eight months of restrictions in Victoria, organisations have changed and work now looks like a balanced arrangement between home and workplace, with in-office workspaces prioritised for those who need it most. COVID threw the cat amongst the pigeons and forced...
By now, almost everyone who works in the Microsoft universe knows about Microsoft Teams. Since COVID-19 and the need to work from home, many organisations have turned to Teams as the 'go-to' platform for video meetings. Many organisations chose Teams as an alternative to Zoom...
This is part 2 of my working from home series of articles as a result of the impact of COVID-19. If you have not read my first article on this, you can read it here. In this article though, I want to write about ways to...
These are certainly interesting and challenging times. As a result of COVID-19, many people are now working from home who don't normally, so it seems opportune to write a post about ways you can be productive when working from home. Part 1 – the setup Interestingly, one...
This is the third and final article in our series relating to continuous partial attention (CPA). In our first article we explained what CPA is, its impact and some strategies to beat it. In our second article we expanded a little on some more strategies...
In this post I continue a series on overcoming 'continuous partial attention' (CPA) to improve your productivity. If you have never heard of this term, you can read the first of the series here. Your attention span How long can you focus on one task? I mean remain focussed...
We live in a 'switched on' world. We've always loved being connected to others – that's human nature – so the arrival of social media along with computers in our hands (and even on our wrists) was something we were all-too-ready to welcome. And welcome...
Over the past few years, as part of the introduction to some of my productivity training programs, I've been asking groups this question: "What are the upsides and downsides of the impact of technology in the workplace?" The responses are hardly surprising, but I...