Many successful people are creatures of habit in some way; these routines to add to your workday are sure to crank up your productivity. Add one of these in each week until they all become intuitive. 1. Batch process email. Carve out two periods in your day dedicated to email...
We've all experienced a work situation like the one in this ecard from someecards, and to fight it, I suggest the 2-minute rule. If a task will take you 2 minutes or less to complete, do it immediately. Not only will you crank out a ton of tasks...
Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on Gen Y and productivity to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. * New Research Reveals That Most Work Email is Irrelevant [PayScale] * Have Millennials Killed the Concept of the Corner Office? [PayScale] * Searching for...
Are you taking the right steps to motivate employee productivity, or are you unwittingly making mistakes that are counterproductive to efficiency? Today's must-reads might surprise you. * How can poor lighting influence productivity? This article introduces the Hawthorne effect and how it could be hurting employee output. [A Successful...
Lately, I've been experimenting with using Twitter as email to see whether it would streamline my digital communication efforts. As often as possible, I've used direct messages or @ replies to contact colleagues and other work buddies instead of email. So far, I like it. Here are...
On the weekdays, I typically focus on work productivity, but since it's the weekend, I couldn't resist sharing three time-saving tricks that gave me over six hours back this week. Six hours, 1 minute and 30 seconds, to be exact -- and the number will likely...
