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GET A GRIP

Agenda for getting a grip of your life (and those of your team).  Managing Your Day Workshop.  

Photo credit: Kristen Reese

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The General's Matrix

He managed a few things pretty admirably.  The allied armies of WWII.  An Ivy League University.  A country. Eisenhower's matrix can also help you manage your day.

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Departing Basecamp

While you’re sleeping through the post-holiday haze, our data elves will be actively migrating our project management system from Basecamp to Teamwork. Shifting to new project management software allows us the same level of security but greater flexibility to manage enormously complex projects.

As clients, you shouldn't see any change aside from an occasional report style difference. Or that we can operate even more flexibly than before.

Interested in learning more on productivity? Sign-up for January’s Managing Your Day workshop. A great day investment to recover from weeks of unproductive end-of-the-year holiday procrastination.

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All I want for Christmas...(is a sense of control over my own life in 2015)

We’re in party season. We’re in lose-your-focus season. Gorge season.

Our job’s to help you think ahead. To the 5th of January. When you return to work and face the chaos and the maelstrom of over-communication, over-scheduling, and over-commitment.

Do something about it now. Come back to work knowing you have a gift that’s going to give for the rest of the year.

A one day “Managing Your Day” workshop at FrontierAcademy in January. It doesn’t come wrapped or with a bow. It just gives you your life back.

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3 Ways To Better Manage Your Day

1. Determine Goals 

Ask yourself: What do you want to accomplish? What’s important to your role? What is the organization paying you to do? The goal is to shift your focus to spending the most time on the things that really make a difference to our organizations. Identifying bad habits that sap your efficiency, and looking for ways you might be able to utilize your resources more efficiently.

2. Remove Distractions

Research shows it takes only 3 seconds to get distracted, making any real progress on thoughtful work requires more than 30 minutes, and it takes 15 mins to return to a productive state after an interruption. That means that jockeying email, engaging with notifications, and answering text messages can thwart your efforts toward maximum productivity. Try dedicating 60-90 minute chunks of time throughout the day for distraction-free work and scheduling smaller chunks of time, when brain power is not optimal for tasks like responding to emails or managing your calendar. 

3. Use Your Calendar

You’re more productive when you know what you’re supposed to do and what takes priority. Block your calendar for accomplishing tasks and for the important/non-urgent things (thinking, reading, writing), just as you would a meeting. This allows for: organization, accountability, proper prioritization of tasks, and transparency to your team. Go leaner on the time you allot a task to help you focus in quickly.

- MT, Frontier Academy Facilitator