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 [...]
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Tag Archive: Time Management
Time Management and the Power of Ritual
Managing your time is tough, especially with a manager that is constantly changing your priorities. And even if you work on your own, it is easy to lose focus and attention.
What has our attention is what gets done — and if what has your attention is surfing the Internet, that is what gets done. Not [...]
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, [...]
10 worst keys to keep you off the layoff list
I hate poor job advice. Career advice that doesn’t match up with reality. Job advice that puts people in unwinnable situations. Given the economy, there is a lot more poor advice out there.
But the article in Management 101 on MSNBC titled Ten keys to keeping yourself off the layoff list takes the cake for the [...]
The easy way to boost job performance
We want to have great job performance because performance leads to good performance reviews. Yet, we spend our time doing our work only to find that the work we did wasn’t right. It didn’t “hit the mark” and we ended up doing the work all over again. All this rework increases our stress levels and [...]
The 3 worst pundit methods to make your job layoff-resistant
There’s a lot of job advice out there — some of it is even contradictory within the same article. But some of the advice is just pathetic. Here are my nominations for the 3 worst pundit methods to make your job layoff-resistant.
Arrive early and stay late
The clock, after all, is what counts, isn’t it? Who [...]
Why SMART Goals are needed in a flexible work environment
In a flexible work environment, you need a way to determine the work output of the people involved in the flexible work environment. If you can’t “see” the person doing the work, how do you know they are getting the work done?
Enter SMART goals
While managers will often say they support a flexible work environment, their [...]
Time management and conflicting career advice
Fortune has a killer headline – Keep your job: A 10-point survival guide. Most of it is a good article and most of the ten points make sense. But the time management implications of conflicting career advice makes the advice a no-win situation for the Cubicle Warrior.
For example, a great piece of advice is “keep [...]
The biggest time management tip
When it comes to time management, everyone has an opinion. Whether it is getting rid of distractions or embracing a time management methodology, time management is an important Cubicle Warrior skill.
Time management’s biggest problem
If you examine most of the time management tips out there, they focus on your personal productivity. Stuff like how you manage [...]
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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 better performance [...]
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