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Month: August 2022

Improve Productivity by Scheduling Untouchable Days

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Improve Productivity by Scheduling Untouchable Days While doing deep creative work, meetings can disrupt your flow and decrease productivity. That’s why you need to schedule one “Untouchable Day” per week, where nothing can interrupt you — no texts, no e-mails, no phone calls, and absolutely no meetings. But what happens when you get an incredible speaking invitation or somebody much more important has this one day to get together? Stick to this simple rule: Untouchable Days may never be deleted, but they can move between the bowling-lane bumpers of the weekends. They can’t jump weeks, though. If they need...

How Both Managers And Workers Can Combat ‘Quiet Quitting – From Forbes

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How Both Managers And Workers Can Combat ‘Quiet Quitting Kelly, J. (2022, August 22). How Both Managers And Workers Can Combat ‘Quiet Quitting.’ Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/08/22/how-both-managers-and-workers-can-combat-quiet-quitting/?sh=2865d47f466d Following the Great Resignation, there is now the trend of “quiet quitting,” which means employees are not leaving their jobs, but they are mentally checking out. It’s a visceral response to two years of dealing with the pandemic and being worried about climate change, rampant inflation, a possible recession, growing hostilities between the United States and China and Russia that could escalate into a world war and the toxic political bickering. People are tired of dead-end...