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5 Strategies from the GTD Method to Manage Your Workload

22-03-2024

Imagine this. Every day you plan 3 major tasks to complete, 3 things you can get done in 30 minutes, and a handful of 5-10-minute tasks. You manage to pick up those 5-10-minute tasks between the major ones, but now your 30-minute tasks have piled up because they never make it to the top of your …

What To Do When Coworkers Monopolize Your Meetings

02-02-2024

QUESTION Dear David, I work at a university where there is significant group work in the form of meetings or committees. In some of these meetings, a few people have a significant and vocal opinion about every agenda item. Every single one, every single time. I’ve noticed that these …

Try This When You’re Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed

18-12-2023

QUESTION Dear Emily, This year I started out motivated, with goals for health, productivity, and things I want to learn at work and personally. However, our company is undergoing ANOTHER reorganization. Some people were let go and other jobs are being moved overseas. I’m a people manager with…

Q&A – How to Handle a Personal Judgment

25-05-2023

QUESTION Dear Brittney, My manager recently told me that another leader said this about me: “her nationality shows by her bluntness in meetings.” I was told this as feedback but wasn’t given any specific examples. While I am open to constructive feedback and want to improve, I’m very …

Q&A – Should You Hold People Accountable Pubicly?

21-02-2023

QUESTION Dear Emily, I’m a project manager and often hold meetings with my team to ensure tasks get completed on time and project timelines aren’t in jeopardy. Recently, one team member said he wasn’t going to meet his deadlines. I wasn’t sure what to do. I didn’t want to call him out…

Dealing with Criticism

06-02-2023

QUESTION Dear Kerry, I’d like some help on receiving criticism. My problem is that there is one executive in my organization who finds fault with my work and I find myself immediately on the defensive. I am intimidated by her confrontational style. I do not report to her, but she has taken …