photo credit: star5112 It’s one thing to deal with one manager. It’s worse dealing with another. And another. And all those stakeholders who think they can have a piece of your time to do work for them. Not only can it drive you crazy, but you can end up getting a poor performance review from… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Task Management
5 steps to identify commitments from a business meeting
photo credit: Simon Blackley Keeping and tracking your work commitments is not easy to do. All of us have days where the entire day is back-to-back meetings with no time to do much else than check for emergency e-mails. At the end of the day — or the next day — we end up walking… Continue Reading
5 task management habits to get more done
photo credit: Rob Warde Task management tools are one of the great bunny trails on the Internet. The volume of information about task management tools is staggering. And all of it, while interesting, misses the point: the tool you use to track your tasks doesn’t make you do the stuff on the list. Only you… Continue Reading
Coping with a demoralized company as a new hire
photo credit: Great Beyond Getting hired by a company that has recently suffered great setbacks can be a great opportunity — or a complete nightmare. For sure, the employees left after all the setbacks will likely have a attitudes from lifeless to protective to uncaring to…well, not many good ones. And there you are, all… Continue Reading
The other 99 percent to get to creativity
The pundits fill boatloads of electrons about the need for innovation and creativity in today’s business. That means we are expected to be creative and innovative in our jobs to help improve our company. Interestingly, most pundits look at how to get to creativity at the far end of the spectrum: the 1% of the… Continue Reading
The single best way to make your manager love your work
In a tough job market — and with employees doing more than ever on the job — getting your current job right with your manager is important. It is your manager, after all, that signs off on your review, helps or hurts your ability for promotions, and, in some cases, can decide to lay you… Continue Reading
How unplanned task management work kills your effectiveness
It’s tough enough meeting your SMART Goals on the job. It’s worse with all of the distractions that happen at work that prevent you from being productive. But unplanned tasks are real work that take you away from being the most productive for the day. Unplanned tasks focuses on the urgent, not important Every time… Continue Reading
Time management: working hours does not equal hours worked
Note from Scot: While on vacation, I’ve asked some of my favorite business bloggers to share their knowledge with you here on Cube Rules. To start us off is Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, of Cali and Jody and the creators of the Results Only Work Environment. And while Kate and I are on vacation,… Continue Reading
3 secrets of work
Most time on career sites is devoted to the stuff “in the weeds.” The 3 white lies managers tell you all the time, how to answer 1000 different interview questions and the 5 things that make you look like a poor job performer all dominate the headlines. Necessarily so, since we seek to solve work… Continue Reading
Why being a Cubicle Warrior gives you an unfair advantage
When you pay attention to your work environment and have a good understanding of what you want out of a job, you get an unfair advantage over those who don’t. You put your career on offense while most others are playing defense. By learning and using Cubicle Warrior skills on the job: Cubicle Warriors get… Continue Reading