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Start by dividing work responsibilities into four quadrants: People development (managing my teams, coaching, mentoring)Business operations (data analysis, running sales meetings)Transactional tasks (one-off things like responding to an email or reviewing a budget)Representative tasks (serving as a "face" for the business, like having drinks with customers or speaking at conferences) Via The Learning Factor
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Breaking all your tasks into quadrants can help you become more strategic about how you work. 
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Everyone agrees that micromanagement is a bad thing, but not everyone knows how to identify and correct it.
In my experience, micromanagement manifests itself in the following five avoidable behaviors: 1. Measuring too many things. The advantage of technology is that you can measure your business more accurately. The disadvantage is that technology makes it too easy to measure too much. Measuring so much that it's not clear what the data really means is classic micromanagement. What to do instead: For every job, select one or two metrics that define success for that job. Ignore everything else. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
June 4, 2014 7:20 PM
Micromanagement is the plague of the technology-driven workplace. Here's how to spot it and what to do instead. 
Jerry Busone's curator insight,
June 5, 2014 7:54 AM
Nobody enjoys this style of leading except for those that a brand new to a task or gaol. At some point as they get experience you have to adjust your style to fit... |
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Kids get a ton of press for stressing out their working parents. Work-life balance is incredibly hard, screams one survey. You need to be a productivity ninja to squeeze it all in, implies another blog post.
And after having a baby last year, I can see why. From broken sleep to incredible amounts of laundry (babies are so small, how do they produce so much?) and a million other responsibilities, kids are a huge if happy time suck. But just because they demand a ton of effort, does that mean children end up being a net drain on your professional productivity? Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
September 28, 2015 12:26 AM
We hear more about the stresses of combining work and kids, but research shows parents are actually more productive. |
Breaking all your tasks into quadrants can help you become more strategic about how you work.
Breaking all your tasks into quadrants can help you become more strategic about how you work.
Breaking all your tasks into quadrants can help you become more strategic about how you work.