How does your team communicate to keep alignment or common goals, projects, and deadlines? Here are a few tools that may help. Do.com Do.com is an easy way to keep all of your meetings organized. It shows you a visual timeline and allows you to set agendas, track...
Every successful meeting will have a list of takeaways and action items to implement. If you are the project manager, it is your job to ensure nothing gets missed. Using automation and strategic follow-up actions ensures that your team can implement and complete all deliverables on time. Here are five...
We've been using Slack over the past few months to streamline communication both at Ridiculously Efficient and with our respective teams. Here are our favorite tips to use Slack effectively. 1. Download the desktop and app versions. Both are really well-designed, which enables you to quickly flip to a project,...
Even the most productive people on the planet lose focus. Knowing how to self-manage and regain composure separates the best from the rest. Here are five of the ways I cope when I lose focus. 1. Rest It may seem simple, but fatigue and cognition don't mix. Multiple studies (including...
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="5zluSizkVqosg2TqtjXl2y5G0tDm6qyX"]The very idea of feedback makes most employees cringe, but it's especially injurious to high-performance workers. In a recent post for Inc., leadership expert Marshall Goldsmith recommends an approach that resounded with me: feedforward. Feedback is inherently focused on the past -- what you did,...
Have you ever felt frustrated because your assistant or key team members didn't get or understand how to effectively communicate with you? Have you ever let go a great employee, or maybe had a great employee voluntarily leave, because there was a mismatch between your expectations of the job and...
