Studies have found that people are spending around 50% of their working time in holding or attending meetings. But are they producing fruitful results? Surely, you, as everyone working in a big or small company, have participated in meetings of a different kind. Long and slow...
One thing is certain when it comes to productivity. If you notice that you are not achieving results at your daily activities related to work or home matters and that your level of productivity is lower than usual, you will need to change something in order to improve and...
Business life is impossible without meetings. We spend a lot of time on countless meetings, but sometimes, the results of our long discussions can hardly be called impressive. If your business meetings don’t bring you the desirable outcome, they need optimization.
Exam time is never considered a fun time even by straight A students. Lack of motivation hence becomes a significant setback for a majority of them. Students need to be motivated for them to excel in their exams.
Employee productivity is one of the basic preconditions of business success. However, most companies are struggling to maintain a high level of efficiency, especially in the period of deadline pressure.
In an ever-changing world around us, it’s quite hard to set aside all the noise and just focus on our goals. The abundance of information makes it hard to make decisions, which consequently influences our productivity. There are so many opinions we hear every day that...
Worried about having to present your ideas to a group of people? Whether it’s a huge conference with 1000 delegates or 3 senior managers from another team, it can be daunting to have to put together presentation material and then deliver it.
Many professions require business trips at some point. Although you are travelling for business and not for pleasure, staying productive can be a challenge. After all, you’re miles away from your office and no near to your regular routine. With that in mind, here are...
Motivated employees can truly make all the difference. It is important for employers and managers to know what exactly their team needs, what their concerns are and what drives them forward in order to make more productive team members. No two employees are the same and good...
Not everything is about money. People have other sound reasons for going to work and doing their jobs than earning a pay-check. To name a few, there’s self-fulfilment, personal and career growth, social interaction, and satisfaction. Employers and managers know...
After the 2008 financial crisis, productivity went down. People became extremely busy, chasing shadows and praying for a change. ‘Busy’ is a term that has been overused to the extent that it has lost its meaning. People normally have the notion that so long...
A SWOT analysis is a way to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats inherent in your business, project or team. It’s a good way to start a strategy session as it opens up plenty of discussion and prompts you and your team to think creatively about...
“Most individuals want to make a difference, especially top technical talent,” said Tim Wasserman from IPS Learning during his presentation at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in London last month.
Dealing with information overload is something that many managers and leaders struggle with. There is just so much data involved in doing our jobs. Sometimes it feels impossible to stay on top of everything. These 5 steps will help you manage the overload by streamlining what...
Working on a research requires a lot of dedication, time and effort. But organizing your research information is important no matter the field of interest, and well-organized data will allow you to accurately assess and evaluate the end...