Posts Tagged ‘productivity’
The importance of sleep on productivity
“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Science is now backing up how important sleep is to our overall health and our productivity. It affects all aspects of our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Loss of sleep costs the UK economy over £30bn a year in lost revenue, or…
Read MoreWhere Do You Spend Your Time?
Balance Your Productivity – Where do you spend your time? What are the choices you make and how much do you and others really value and respect your time? Valuing your time is about knowing where your time adds value, where and when you’re wasting it. What are the choices you make throughout the day?…
Read MoreCharge What You’re Worth
Balance Your Productivity – How to charge what you’re worth. Know your hourly rate and how to appreciate the real value of your time. Do you value your time? Even if you don’t charge for your time or have an hourly rate – your time still has value. How much time you spend on a piece…
Read MoreMoney can’t buy love …
…but it could buy happiness. At least according to the results of a recent survey it can. What they’ve confirmed is in the busy world in which we now live and work with so many demands on your time, if you truly value your time and want to be happier, some things are worth paying…
Read MoreIs your to-do list full of projects?
Many people add tasks to their daily and weekly to-do lists which are actually a major project in themselves. For example: Complete report … Arrange meeting/event … Create system/process … In reality, they’re not one task but a series tasks that need to be completed. This is one of the reasons those particular items often…
Read MoreThe More Time You Have, The Less You Do
There are many reasons why we procrastinate and it’s not always due to fear, laziness or having too much time. Some people work better when there’s the pressure of a deadline to meet – even though meeting that deadline puts them under enormous stress and they end up working long hours to meet it. If…
Read MoreAnd now it’s Wimbledon
I might not have been glued to the World Cup but now Wimbledon is on – I have something to watch. There’s potentially more of an impact to office productivity, because the games are on during the working day. Here’s how I organise my time when I can, so that I can watch a few…
Read MoreWork Life Balance – how’s yours?
New working practices have been introduced in France and Sweden to improve the lives of workers. In France it’s now illegal for workers in the digital and consultancy sectors to respond to emails after 6pm. That would probably see most UK employers breaking the law on a daily basis, as so many people these days…
Read More12 Apps to save time and boost productivity
With so much going on in our lives these days – there are ways to use technology and the internet to help you make better use of your time rather than the time drain it so often becomes. Here are just a few that I use or recommend that you can install on your computer…
Read MoreLower productivity in open plan offices
A recent study shows that working in open plan offices reduces performance and increases fatigue. It’s not an easy environment in which to be productive. Easy to put up, easy to reconfigure, there is no privacy and little to stop noise, voices and ringing phones carrying across the office space. You’re separated from your neighbours…
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