BLACKPOOL HEALTH LIBRARY: At the Heart of Quality Information on the Fylde Coast! Management Update from your Library: a collection of interesting articles focusing on leadership and management.
10 Common Time Management Mistakes: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
How well do you manage your time? If you’re like many people, your answer may not be completely positive! Perhaps you feel overloaded, and you often have to work late to hit your deadlines. Or maybe your days seem to go from one crisis to another, and this is stressful and demoralizing.
Many of us know that we could be managing our time more effectively; but it can be difficult to identify the mistakes that we’re making, and to know how we could improve. When we do manage our time well, however, we’re exceptionally productive at work, and our stress levels drop. We can devote time to the interesting, high-reward projects that can make a real difference to a career. In short, we’re happier!
In this article we’ll look at 10 of the most common time management mistakes, as well as identifying strategies and tips that you can use to overcome them.
The PERMA Model: Bringing Well-Being and Happiness to Your Life
We all want to be happy. When we’re happy, we’re productive, we’re good at building meaningful relationships with those around us, and… we feel great!
However, happiness is a notoriously difficult thing to pin down, and by focusing on it too intensely, we can end up feeling unfulfilled.
In this article we’ll look at the PERMA Model. This helps us think about what we need to do to flourish – and be really happy as a result!
How to Work with Someone Who Thinks They’re Always Right
Many people suffer from “chronic certainty” on issues for which no perfect answer exists. Here are three ways we’ve seen leaders get underneath chronic certainty to help themselves and others broaden their perspective — and have more productive conversations…
The First Thing Great Decision Makers Do
As a statistician, I appreciate the quote by applied statistics pioneer W. Edwards Deming, “In God we trust. All others bring data.” But as a social scientist, I’m compelled to warn you that many decision-makers chase data with too much zeal, running from ignorance but never improving their decisions. Is there a way to land in the sweet spot? There is, and it starts with one simple decision-making habit: Commit to your default decision up front…
The Assumptions Employees Make When They Don’t Get Feedback
“If I’m not causing problems, I must be doing fine.”
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