Posts Tagged Under: productivity

Tips and Tricks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

Productivity Hacks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

It has been demonstrated that attention spans are shrinking. People are constantly inundated with short videos, bite-size content, and endless stimuli that prevent them from really focusing on one thing at a time. Even corporate training materials have moved toward digestible content. Though not necessarily a bad thing, it highlights the necessity for companies to accommodate workers who are easily distracted. Similarly, as you tailor your marketing messages for your target audience, you must also modify your communication methods to suit their attention span.

Productivity Hacks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

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The Productivity Box Take Advantage of the Huge Impact Better Communication Skills Have on Work Performance

The Productivity Box: How Better Communication Skills Boost Work Performance

Communication plays a crucial role in problem-solving and decision-making processes within teams. More than 70 percent of leaders feel that effective communication skills boost their team’s productivity. So what is the correlation between strong communication and a high-quality job performance? And how can you develop this trait to bolster your own career success?

The Productivity Box: How Better Communication Skills Boost Work Performance

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Top 40 Productivity Experts to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2024

When it comes to work efficiency, productivity stands out as one of the most extensively studied topics. However, finding the most proficient productivity experts today can prove to be quite challenging. Sometimes, it feels like searching for a needle in a haystack 🙂 Fortunately, X (formerly Twitter) can be a useful tool to discover and follow content creators whose insights you might find helpful. By keeping track of their activity, you can stay up-to-date with their ideas and thoughts. Below is the list we’ve assembled for you.

Top 40 Productivity Experts to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2024

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The Productivity Box: Use Cold Winter Air to Wake Up your Mind

The calendar has transitioned from that chaotic holiday rush in December to an exciting fresh start in January. Now is the time to reset your focus on performance goals. Fortunately, with winter in full force across the Northern Hemisphere, it’s easier than you might think to harness mental energy, alertness, concentration, and other executive functions during this time of year. Yes, the cold winter can actually help!

The Productivity Box Use Cold Winter Air to Wake Up your Mind

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Stages of Returning to Work after the Winter Holidays

For most employees, the last few weeks of December are dedicated to holiday parties, time off, or low-productivity days in the office. Very few people schedule meetings because no one would attend and those who are available often work on low-priority tasks. When not at work, people are traveling, enjoying festive events, or simply relaxing. It’s no wonder that upon returning to work, some experience a case of holiday hangover. Mild or more severe, we all need a minute to get back into the swing of things.

Stages of Returning to Work after the Winter Holidays

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Keep Your Team Productive Around Winter Holidays

Managing employees during the winter holidays can be difficult. You want your team to rest after a long year of hard work but have a hard time juggling dozens of time off requests. You want to celebrate your team’s accomplishments but also need your staff to stay focused and hit their deadlines. It’s a delicate balancing act that stresses many leaders.

Keep Your Team Productive Around Winter Holidays

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The Productivity Box: Muda, Mura, Muri or How to Reduce Inconsistency to Boost Efficiency

Efficient workflow leads to a successful performance and higher bottom line. It doesn’t matter your industry, organization, or team culture. And yet, research shows that only 60 percent (or less) of the average employee’s time is productive. Not to mention, employees face about 56 interruptions each day, which can take them as long as two hours to recover from. There is a lot of inconsistency that could drive to less-than-desired results.

The Productivity Box: Muda, Mura, Muri or How to Reduce Inconsistency to Boost Efficiency

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