Are Your Productivity Practices at Odds with Your Personality?
Are Your Productivity Practices at Odds with Your Personality?
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Employee Productivity
Organizations perform better when people can focus on the work that matters most. Explore resources for improving focus, prioritization, and follow-through.
Resources for Employee Productivity
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Are Your Productivity Practices at Odds with Your Personality?
I struggle to use GTD consistently. When I do, it’s helpful, but then I’ll lose lists or I forget to capture and clarify. I feel like maybe it’s just not a fit for me. Any tips for making this stuff stick?
How to Deliver Feedback Effectively
How to Deliver Feedback Effectively
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How to Deliver Feedback Effectively
I am working on my skill set of leading others. This is new to me, so I’m trying to learn how to give effective feedback on their work. I worry that I won’t be helpful, or worse, they’ll get defensive and I will lose future opportunities to give feedback. Any suggestions?
The Quickest Way to Improve Teamwork
The Quickest Way to Improve Teamwork
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The Quickest Way to Improve Teamwork
Little of consequence happens in the world without cooperative activity. The primary ability that enables human beings to thrive is our capacity to work together toward common goals. So, it’s no wonder that the various teams in our lives (work teams, marriages, families, parent/teacher organizations, etc.)…
How to Balance Compassion and Boundaries at Work
How to Balance Compassion and Boundaries at Work
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How to Balance Compassion and Boundaries at Work
When an employee has a lot going on personally, it often shows up at work. These past few years have been tough on everyone, and I feel both empathy and a determination to hold clear boundaries. I want to extend grace to my employees, and I want them to meet their job duties and performance measures. How can…
5 Tips to Better Balance Your Workload
5 Tips to Better Balance Your Workload
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5 Tips to Better Balance Your Workload
Dear Crucial Skills, Each day I plan to complete three major tasks, three thirty-minute tasks, and a few five- to ten-minute tasks. I can squeeze in some five- to ten-minute tasks in between my major tasks, but now my thirty-minute tasks have piled up because they never make it to the top of my…
Can You Help Someone Overcome Stress?
Can You Help Someone Overcome Stress?
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Can You Help Someone Overcome Stress?
My sister is stressed, overwhelmed, at her breaking point, and needs help. She runs two companies, has two small children, and was recently diagnosed with ADHD on top of the thousands of unread email messages in her inbox and hundreds of tasks she has on her to-do list. I’ve taken the Getting Things Done…
Tips for Holding a GTD® Weekly Review
Tips for Holding a GTD® Weekly Review
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Tips for Holding a GTD® Weekly Review
I try to make a non-negotiable appointment with myself to do my weekly review, but most weeks I push it off and push it off. I don’t know why I avoid the weekly review so much, or, more importantly, how I can make myself take the time to do it. Any suggestions?
5 Tips to Improve Focus
5 Tips to Improve Focus
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5 Tips to Improve Focus
In a world full of distractions, how do you focus on the ‘right’ things?
Finding Focus
Finding Focus
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Finding Focus
This inability to stay focused on the task at hand or give others our undivided attention isn’t just a byproduct of our society – it’s a debilitating problem that’s crippling our mental health, our relationships, and our productivity. In this ebook, you’ll learn how to implement new behaviors that…
Can GTD® Help You Focus?
Can GTD® Help You Focus?
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Can GTD® Help You Focus?
Dear Crucial Skills, It seems to me that focus and productivity are different concepts that often get conflated. When people think of productivity, they seem to think of doing more, faster. When people think of focus, they seem to think of doing less, more deliberately. Doing more faster, in my view, simply…
4 Surprising Career Habits of Highly Successful People
4 Surprising Career Habits of Highly Successful People
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4 Surprising Career Habits of Highly Successful People
According to our study of more than 1,800 employees, the most important factor to personal and career success isn’t good luck, natural talent, or even decision-making—it’s HABIT. Surprisingly, many of the habits people attributed to their success are less heroic than they are simple. Learn the four…
Leader’s Guide to Team Productivity
Leader’s Guide to Team Productivity
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Leader’s Guide to Team Productivity
Based on research across multiple industries, this eBook reveals that the most productive teams share a foundation of psychological safety, trust, and accountability. Teams that practice open dialogue achieve significantly higher efficiency and engagement scores. The guide outlines step-by-step strategies…
From High Potential to High Performance
From High Potential to High Performance
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From High Potential to High Performance
Over half of high-potential employees fail to reach expectations due to lack of feedback and accountability. This ebook presents data-backed strategies showing how structured coaching and dialogue transform potential into measurable performance. Organizations that adopted these practices saw significant…
7 Deadly Sins of Email
7 Deadly Sins of Email
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7 Deadly Sins of Email
Drawing from organizational case studies and survey insights, this eBook outlines seven common mistakes that sabotage workplace communication by email—from ambiguity to emotional tone. It demonstrates how mismanaged email conversations lead to conflict, delay, and lost productivity, while offering specific…
Work From Home Habits for Greater Productivity
Work From Home Habits for Greater Productivity
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Work From Home Habits for Greater Productivity
This ebook identifies five research-backed habits that distinguish highly productive remote workers from those who struggle with focus and balance. Drawing on survey data and behavioral science, it shows that people who intentionally design routines around priorities, time, and environment experience…
The Work Habits of Top Performers
The Work Habits of Top Performers
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10 mins
The Work Habits of Top Performers
Top performers are more valuable than we generally realize. Their managers and peers rate them at two to three times more valuable than average employees and say they account for well over half the work done by their teams. But what do these top performers do that make them do indispensable? In this ebook,…
How to Be More Productive
How to Be More Productive
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How to Be More Productive
To accomplish what we need to get done each day, we have to find a way to manage all the tasks in our lives. In this ebook, you’ll learn four tips to reclaim your time, attention, and energy. Stress-free productivity is possible, but only if you control your incoming requests and existing projects rather…
Doing More with Less
Doing More with Less
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Doing More with Less
When life changes in the workplace, we often experience more work, longer hours, and less stability. Consequently, our stress rises, we lose sight of our priorities, and our work – and health – suffers. Yet the challenges of changing work are less about how much one has to do and more about how one responds…