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Effective time management makes employees more efficient, more
effective and less stressed, and is a fundamental skill in all
organisations. This brand new toolkit will provide a time
management resource which HR managers and consultants can either
give to individuals to work through by themselves or which they can
adapt to run a training course. The toolkit provides activities and
handouts that you can give to managers to use in coaching sessions
and it provides activities and handouts that you can give to
employees to work through alone. These resources will give you
fresh ideas and approaches to improve and freshen up your time
management training even if you already use other materials. The
Time Management Toolkit: - will save you time preparing training
course materials as the materials you need are already provided in
an adaptable format - provides activities and handouts that you can
give to managers to use in coaching sessions - provides activities
and handouts that you can give to employees to work through alone -
gives fresh ideas and approaches to improve and freshen up your
time management training provision even if you already have
materials.
For better or worse, the information and communication revolution
has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an
individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and
cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the
regime of the clock are changing rapidly, including the way
individuals save, spend, and optimize time. At the organizational
level, the pacing of innovation, levels of production, and new
product development, are no longer temporally fixed due to the
effects of living in a networked society and in the networked
economy. 24/7 brings together leading thinkers from a variety of
disciplines to analyze the differing relationships to time in an
accelerated society. Offering much-needed insight and perspective
into new issues and problems, this unique volume is the first to
offer a wide range of cutting-edge thought on the new economic,
cultural, and political world of the networked society. The book
includes contributions from the leading scholars in this area, such
as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert
Lovink.
How do both elite athletes and business leaders climb to the top?
Contrary to what you might think, it's effective habits rather than
innate talent that are their keys to success. Dr. Jason
Selk,director of mental training for the 2011 World Series
Champions, the St. Louis Cardinals,and star business coach Tom
Bartow combine the most effective elements of both their
disciplines to offer an organizational improvement plan that anyone
can learn and apply immediately.They outline eight fundamental ways
to get organized, including the "time paradox," which allows
precision to set your schedule free, and a two-minute mental
training drill that will start your day with focus, confidence, and
energy. Organize Tomorrow Today helps readers to move past their
performance roadblocks and achieve more productive lives.
Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and
techniques to help you review and assess your time management and
adopt new work practices to improve it. This book includes great
time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice
on: controlling paperwork, organizing your emails, delegating and
working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting
and staying organized. This fully updated 6th edition features even
more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you
minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the
priorities that will lead to success in your job and career.
Successful Time Management will give you the tools to become more
efficient and effective. The Creating Success series of books...
Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with
the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new
and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection
of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no
time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of
winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast
progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in
your career.
Die Zahl Kleiner Anfragen steigt seit mehreren Legislaturperioden
immer weiter an. Der Autor nimmt damit zusammenhangende Klagen aus
der OEffentlichen Verwaltung zum Anlass, um zu untersuchen, welche
Auswirkungen diese Steigerung auf Arbeitsbelastung und Performanz
sowie auf Einstellungen und Praxisverstandnis von Beschaftigten der
Ministerialburokratie hat. Dazu analysiert er die
Parlamentsstatistik und fuhrt eine Umfrage in mehreren
Bundesministerien durch. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die
Bearbeitung Kleiner Anfragen und deren Rahmenbedingungen die
Verwaltung erheblich belasten und in Extremfallen die
Funktionsfahigkeit gefahrden koennen. Er empfiehlt daher eine
AEnderung der Bundestagsgeschaftsordnung. Auf Basis der
Umfrageergebnisse diskutiert der Autor erste Reformvorschlage
hierfur.
We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there
"must "be a more efficient way for people to get things done, here
from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive,
thought-provoking book about the management process that is
changing the way we live.
In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw
a sharp line designating ""before "Scrum" and ""after" Scrum."
Scrum is "that" ground-breaking. It already drives most of the
world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread
to every domain where people wrestle with complex projects.
If you've ever been startled by how fast the world is changing,
Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as
1200% have been recorded, and there's no more lucid - or
"compelling" - explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff
Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than
twenty years ago.
The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to
this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things quickly and
efficiently. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at
cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises,
unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West
Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of
ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different
technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional
realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.
In this book you'll journey to Scrum's front lines where Jeff's
system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant
iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into
the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile
per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving
action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact
with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even
helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores.
Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making,
advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines,
"Scrum "is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to
read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others
consider unachievable - whether it be inventing a trailblazing
technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to
feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for
your family to thrive and prosper.
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the definitive guide
to managing and freeing up time
Applying the groundbreaking from-the-inside-out approach that made
"Organizing from the Inside Out" a "New York Times b"estseller,
Julie Morgenstern set a new standard for the time- management
category. Her system has helped countless readers uncover their
psychological stumbling blocks and strengths, and develop a
time-management system that suits their individual needs.
By applying her proven three-step program-Analyze, Strategize,
Attack-and following her effective guidelines, readers will find
more time for work, family, self-improvement, or whatever is most
important to them. Time management is a learnable skill, and in
this completely revised edition, Morgenstern provides the ultimate
tools to combine, delegate, and eliminate unnecessary tasks; put
technology to work; and stop procrastinating once and for all.
This revised edition delivers
- a new chapter about the WADE formula for getting started
- new time maps for people with irregular schedules
- new four-, eight-, and twelve-week program guides for improving
time-management skills
- a fully updated resource guide
There's an 80 percent chance you're poor. Time poor, that is. Four
out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and
not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less
joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less
productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress
produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment.
How can we escape the time traps that make us feel this way and
keep us from living our best lives? Time Smart is your playbook for
taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling
chores. Author and Harvard Business School professor Ashley
Whillans will give you proven strategies for improving your "time
affluence." The techniques Whillans provides will free up seconds,
minutes, and hours that, over the long term, become weeks and
months that you can reinvest in positive, healthy activities. Time
Smart doesn't stop at telling you what to do. It also shows you how
to do it, helping you achieve the mindset shift that will make
these activities part of your everyday regimen through assessments,
checklists, and activities you can use right away. The strategies
Whillans presents will help you make the shift to time-smart living
and, in the process, build a happier, more fulfilling life.
Find your focus with this transformative guide from an
organizational psychologist and Marie Kondo, the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying and star
of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Marie Kondo's
first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, sparked a new wave
of publishing and became an international bestseller. Now, for the
first time, you will be guided through the process of tidying up
your work life - digitally and physically. Whether you're working
at home, in the office, or a combination of the two, if you
properly simplify and organize your work life once, you'll never
have to do it again. In Joy at Work, KonMari method pioneer Marie
Kondo and organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein will help
you to refocus your mind on what's important at work, and as their
examples show, the results can be truly life-changing. With advice
on how to improve the way you work, the book features advice on
problem areas including fundamentals like how to organize your
digital and physical desktop, finally get through your emails and
find balance by ditching distractions and focusing on what sparks
joy.
A road-tested formula for improving your professional performance,
from one of the business world's most successful and productive
executives - with practical suggestions and takeaways in every
chapter. Discover the secrets to professional productivity and high
performance. Extreme Productivity is for anyone feeling overwhelmed
by their existing workload-facing myriad competing demands and
multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar
full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Robert Pozen
explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them
with how you actually spend your time. Pozen demonstrates that in
order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical
shift in their mind-set: from hours worked to results produced. In
a knowledge-based economy, what's important is what you've
accomplished, not how many hours you've logged at your desk. Pozen
teaches you how to efficiently complete your large projects and
quickly move through the small stuff. He shows you how to delegate
functions and manage your boss. He helps people at all stages of
their careers read, write, and make presentations more effectively.
He provides professionals with practical tips on how to efficiently
use their time-while leading full and productive personal lives as
well.
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly
by.' So said author Douglas Adams - but what if there was a way of
making deadlines work for you and using them to ensure others
provide you with what you want when you want it? In Christopher
Cox's brilliant new book, he looks at the impact deadlines have on
us, and how we can use them to deliver the best results for all
parties. Social scientists have revealed that most negotiations run
right up to the deadline before a deal is finally struck. What they
also discovered was that this deadline effect usually results in a
worse deal for both parties. Cox shows you how, instead, the
deadline effect can be used to bring about success not failure. The
truth is that most of us think of deadlines all wrong. They aren't
immutable laws of nature; they are a game we can play - and win.
This book will show you the strategies different workplaces have
come up with to do just that. They are the businesses and
individuals who are rehabilitating the deadline effect, taking the
urgency it provides and jettisoning all the down-to-the-wire
nonsense. Based on his own experience as a magazine commissioning
editor, where coaxing writers to deliver on time is an art form, he
also embeds himself in other businesses, such as a ski patrol ahead
of the first day of the winter season, to see how they meet
deadlines that cannot be missed. Above all, this book is an
argument to embrace the power of deadlines. When time is limited,
people are less wasteful, more focused, productive and creative.
It's a liberating realisation: excellence and timeliness are not at
odds, and the deadline effect can be highly effective.
As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has
productivity become such a vital demonstration of personal and
professional competence? When corporate profits are soaring but
worker salaries remain stagnant, how does technology exacerbate the
demand for ever greater productivity? In Counterproductive Melissa
Gregg explores how productivity emerged as a way of thinking about
job performance at the turn of the last century and why it remains
prominent in the different work worlds of today. Examining
historical and archival material alongside popular self-help
genres-from housekeeping manuals to bootstrapping business gurus,
and the growing interest in productivity and mindfulness
software-Gregg shows how a focus on productivity isolates workers
from one another and erases their collective efforts to define work
limits. Questioning our faith in productivity as the ultimate
measure of success, Gregg's novel analysis conveys the futility,
pointlessness, and danger of seeking time management as a salve for
the always-on workplace.
Do you know how your brain functions? Do you sometimes feel like
you're fighting your own brain and habits in order to be productive
at work? What if there was a way to work with your brain to become
more efficient, effective and productive... and transform the way
you operate? Make Your Brain Work is here to help. Author Amy Brann
is fascinated by the application of brain science to business, and
you don't have to be an expert to understand - she explains the
principles and latest insights in practical and easy-to-understand
language, enabling you to understand the way you work, and form the
helpful habits that will revolutionize your output. With clear,
in-context examples; hands-on tips; and focused case studies on how
companies are doing things well and the pitfalls to avoid, this
entertaining book will help you reduce the stress and overwhelm of
poor time management, and help get you to that next professional
level. Including brand-new content on developing resilience and
creativity, and managing your work-life balance, now it's even
easier to Make Your Brain Work!
** FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ** **Previously
published as The Little Book of Lykke** "A wonderful guide to happy
living. It's based on hard evidence and written with a wonderful
sense of fun" Richard Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
and author of Happiness Happiness is just around the corner with
this practical guide from happiness researcher Meik Wiking Meik
Wiking understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as
Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute,
he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people
to discover the key components of happiness. In The Key to
Happiness, Meik explores the hidden treasures which can improve
your happiness, and divides them into the six building blocks of
happiness; togetherness, money, health, kindness, trust and
freedom. For each happiness block he offers practical tips: for
togetherness he encourages setting up a mini-library in your
apartment building or starting a tool-sharing programme in your
street; for kindness he suggests leaving a surprise gift on a
stranger's doorstep, helping a tourist find their way or telling
someone who means a lot to you that they do. Drawing on social
science, case studies and Meik's original research, this practical
guide shows us that you can find happiness in a simple way of life.
While Meik has travelled across the globe to discover the secrets
of the world's happiest people, this book shows us that you can be
just as happy where you are. This book is the perfect guide on how
to survive and navigate the modern world with a smile on your face.
"An inspiring and highly engaging exploration of what really makes
us happy, all underpinned by the latest research" Dr Mark
Williamson Director of Action for Happiness PRE-ORDER THE HYGGE
HOME, THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE BOOK OF HYGGE
This is a book on self-management. It is interesting that the
skills we need to manage others are the same we need to manage
ourselves: the ability to plan, delegate, organise, direct and
control.
What helps employees to perform well and stay healthy under high
levels of stress? What are the factors that distinguish those
employees? What are the best ways to recover from a stressful day
at work? How can employees proactively address stressors they
encounter at work, and how can they move from "coping" to
"thriving"? Can stress even have positive consequences? Most
employees can recall times when they have dealt with the stress
they were under at work, even coming out stronger as a result of
performing well under difficult conditions. Yet many approaches to
stress at work view stress as a toxic experience that should be
avoided at all costs, and do not recognize how stress might be used
to facilitate personal growth, professional development, and higher
levels of performance. In this book, Britt and Jex describe how
stressful working conditions can produce positive outcomes when
employees approach demands in the right way, focus on the meaning
and significance of their work, and recover appropriately from
stressful working conditions, both during the day and when at home.
The book encourages employees to view themselves as active
constructors of their work environment who are capable of
proactively addressing many of the demands they encounter, instead
of being passive recipients of work stressors. To help readers
reach the goal of thriving under stressful work, application
exercises are provided in each chapter of the book. In these
exercises, employees consider how they are currently responding to
work stressors, how they might identify the significance and
importance of their work, and identify ways they can better recover
from work demands. Given the importance of managers in creating the
conditions necessary for employees to thrive under stressful
conditions, each chapter also includes a box with recommendations
for managers who are looking to reduce the negative effects of
stress at work, enhance the positive effects, and create a work
environment where employees can thrive.
Non-office based work is here to stay, but everyone experiences it
differently. Find out how to make working at home and remote work,
work for you. How to Work Remotely will help anyone adapt to home,
remote and hybrid working. Suitable for homeworkers, or the
managers and leaders of homeworkers, this highly practical book
will address how to be successful and build a career while working
remotely, or away from the office. Packed with practical exercises
and top tips, the book includes advice on wellbeing when working
from home, how to get organized, how to start a new role when
you're not in the office and suggestions on the best ways to be
productive. HR specialist Gemma Dale also explains about managing
the performance of remote and hybrid teams and effectively making
home working accessible for all colleagues. The Creating Success
series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance
and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written
by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this
million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will
get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart
advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results,
you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create
lasting success in your career.
Immer wieder kommt es bei der Besetzung von Ausschussen zu
Pattsituationen zwischen dem Regierungs- und dem Oppositionslager.
Der Autor geht der Frage nach, wie mit derartigen Pattsituationen
umgegangen werden soll. Dabei berucksichtigt er einerseits die
staatsrechtlichen Vorgaben fur die Ausschussbesetzung, die durch
die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts konturiert wurden.
Andererseits tragt er der politischen Praxis, namlich dem
regelmassig geschlossenen Agieren von Regierungs- und
Oppositionslager in den Ausschussen, Rechnung. Am Ende seiner
Untersuchung unterbreitet der Autor einen Regelungsvorschlag zur
Aufloesung von Pattsituationen, bei dem alle Massgaben
gleichermassen zur Geltung kommen.
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