Learn To Manage More Effectively With Priority Matrix
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Creating a Gantt chart in Excel can be daunting. We get it. We’re here to help. In this article, we’ll walk you STEP by STEP how to create a Gantt chart in Excel. We’ll also show you a tool that makes creating a gantt chart a WHOLE lot quicker and easier. Because, you know, it’s 2016…
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The most successful business people are those who never stop learning. This helps them stay one step ahead of the competition. Lucky for us, there’s a huge wealth of knowledge easily accessible at our fingertips. There are 100s of bloggers with expertise in a variety of areas who are ready and willing to share it. However, finding…
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Procrastination is typically defined as the act of delaying or postponing something. This leaves us unproductive, due to something called the Zeigarnik Effect. The Zeigarnik Effect Technically, this is the: “Tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete. The automatic system signals the conscious mind, which may be…
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Managing Priorities in Excel is one of the most common ways individuals and teams stay on top of their workload. However, when managing tasks, projects or a group of people, it can be difficult to prioritize and stay organized; communication through email, over the phone, or even in person can get lost in translation or…
Read moreEarlier this week, my boss pulled me over to his desk to present me with new case: somebody had sent over an order management spreadsheet full of tasks, task owners, and due dates and asked if they could integrate it into our system. Now, I’m not just saying this, but after working here for 6…
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Getting Things Done, by David Allen, is one of the most popularly subscribed to productivity methods. It’s no surprise that we receive a number of requests from our users who are wondering about transitioning from GTD to Priority Matrix. The GTD method has become so popular in large part because it recognizes the growing complexity…
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Productivity in the workplace is identified as getting the most done, in the least amount of time, while using the fewest resources possible. With only so many hours in the workday, what’s the best way to hit this trio of targets? Here are the 3 secrets that managers who feel like there’s never enough time use to…
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This is a guest post by Niraj Ranjan Rout from Hiver Productivity is a practice that you inculcate consciously in the beginning, and it gradually becomes a part of who you are. Even more so, you cannot afford to be sloppy when you are an entrepreneur – the bent of mind comes with the territory. I…
Read moreManaging multiple priorities can result in important jobs being shuttled aside while you spend extra time on low priority tasks. What’s more, balancing multiple priorities becomes even more difficult when all of the items in your work load are of high importance. You simply cannot work on everything at once. And even if you feel as…
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Everybody procrastinates in the workplace at one point or another. It seems all too easy to fall into an internet wormhole, daydream about the weekend, or fix our attention on menial tasks. However, procrastination in the workplace greatly hinders our success, and can cost direly. Think about this: the national average salary of a software engineer is about $90,000, according to…
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