Life Balance & Self Care
Paper Clutter: Our Changing Relationship with Office File Cabinets
Excess paper files were once the bane of most offices. Today, the clutter is digital. In this video, Dr. Melissa Gratias...
A Love Letter to Outlook Tasks
Dear Outlook Tasks, We first met in the early 2000s. I came from a Lotus Notes world, and you were there to welcome...
Little changes that greatly improve your productivity
Sometimes we think that being more productive requires big, overwhelming changes to how we work and live. Not true! In...
What is a “Task Transition” and How Can it Make Me More Productive?
Some things that we do to improve our productivity are big things: use a task list rather than memory, say “No”...
Podcasts: Productivity in your Earbuds
Guest Post by Shannon Martin, Director of Communications for Podbean Do you have a growing stack of unread books? Are there...
Random Acts of Kindness…and Productivity!
Random acts of kindness are also productive. In this video, Dr. Melissa Gratias describes three ways you can be kind to...
An Open Letter from My Chronically Tardy Teenager
Recently, I posted a blog on what to do when people are late to meetings. Because these blogs take a minute to write, I...
10 Steps to a Productive Day
In this video, Dr. Melissa Gratias is joined by her assistant, Dobby the house dog. Together, they will give you 10 steps...
3 Rules for a Well-Run Meeting
A meeting is an excellent tool to improve communication and collaboration in an organization. Creativity flows....
How I started on my path to productivity…
Can an unsystematic, distractible person be productive? Umm...yes. In this video, Dr. Melissa Gratias reveals her sordid...
How to have fun (and be productive!) at work
Can work and fun coexist? End the eternal debate, and have fun while still being professional and productive! They work in...
When People are Late to Meetings
The meeting was scheduled to start at 11:00. It’s 11:06 and the person running the meeting says… Let’s just give...
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