by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
If you have more tasks to do than time to do them in, you are prioritizing – intentionally or unintentionally. Unintentional methods of prioritization include: Recency Effect. What arrived last gets done first. This is pretty much how an email inbox works....
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Interviews are fun way to learn and share information. If you are a content creator (i.e., blogger, vlogger, podcaster), ask others to let you interview them and say yes when you are asked by others. I met Terrass “Razz” Misher when we set up an...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
If you haven’t experienced the misery of having one (or more) of your online accounts infiltrated by hackers, consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately, my family is not in that lucky group. A few months ago, my husband and I spent an uncounted number of hours...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
One of the central tenets of my productivity-improvement work with my clients is to, where possible, maximize what is already available to you. Often, we don’t need a complete overhaul of work processes and technology. We need to take full advantage of current...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Is paper all bad? Absolutely not. Is everyone trying to eliminate paper? Nope. So, when is it okay to use paper? Read on… Despite the predominance of projectors, laptops, iPads, and shared filing systems, there just seems to be no substitute for a stack of...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Everyone procrastinates from time to time – it’s human nature. We put off writing a report, calling potential clients, or starting what we consider a boring job. Here are a few of the excuses we give: I don’t have enough information. I’ll have more time tomorrow. I...
