Every company has a culture, much like every individual has a personality. And like a personality, a company’s culture can develop organically over time. Or, it can be purposefully molded, shaped using specific values and practices to achieve a particular goal, like productivity. This article is about the latter. It’sContinue Reading
How do you start your mornings? If you’re like me, your morning routine might look something like this: You check email from your phone before even getting out of bed, you scan headlines on Twitter while you brew your morning coffee, and you look at Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat duringContinue Reading
Navigating the web these days can make a person feel like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. There’s so much to be seen here that — until somewhat recently — was fairly unheard of. And we don’t know what’s good or bad. It’s as if we’re constantly coming across aContinue Reading
Confession: I am a bonafide productivity junkie. It seems like there isn’t a hack I haven’t tried — from calendar tricks, to new break-taking structures, to time management experiments, I love trying every get-more-done-in-a-day tip I come across. Among them are different app recommendations, especially the ones designed to make teamworkContinue Reading
For all of the greatness that the internet affords — cute animal videos, GIFs, and interesting blogs — I think its biggest downside is how distracting it can be. How many times have you sat down to work and been pulled into a pit of procrastination?
Perhaps you get absorbed in updates on social media, or maybe you click through Wikipedia trying to determine what exactly Gina Rodriguez’s first TV role was (it was on Law & Order).
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“I had a bad day.”
How often do you find yourself saying that? Once? Twice? Several times throughout the day?
If it’s more than once each week, you’ve got company — 29% of people say that they have at least two bad days at work every week.
Here’s what you definitely shouldn’t do the next time you’re stuck in traffic on your way to work: calculate just how much time you spend commuting to and from the office.
Seriously, don’t do it. The realization that you spend weeks of your life behind the wheel (or choice of public transport) could just be enough to ruin the rest of your day.
It’s no mystery that social media is a crucial part of any marketing strategy — regardless of industry, company size, product, or service.
We’ve all been there. Back in the day, I had to make the case for some businesses to even have a social media presence in the first place. But finally — finally! — it seems like folks are catching on. After all, 69% of marketers are using social media to build a following.
It’s easy to think of commuting as a total waste of time. When you’re standing on the train platform or waiting at a traffic light, every minute that ticks by can seem like a minute lost from an already jam-packed day at work. But there’s good news for those of you who wish you could spend that time more productively.
While many people dread the sound of their morning alarm, an early start to the day could actually be the best thing for your writing.
To shed some light on this concept, the folks at Grammarly analyzed over one billion words corrected with the help of their writing app, and gathered some fascinating insights about how time of day impacts writing ability.
Efficiency, collaboration, communication, and meeting deadlines — these all seem pretty relevant to your team’s success, right? Especially when running big marketing campaigns with a lot of moving pieces.
Whether you’re the solo marketer at your company or part of a 25-person team, staying organized and accountable is super important to executing marketing campaigns. That’s where Trello comes in.
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We waste a lot of time reading and responding to emails at work. So much so that many people have become obsessed with optimizing their time spent “dealing” with email — whether that’s putting limits on the number of times they check their inbox during the day, using a productivity method such as inbox zero, or investing in tools to manage the mess of incoming communications.
In my family, memory is an asset.
It’s not that we’re senile. It’s just that our minds move too quickly. We’re so busy jumping ahead to whatever’s next that we forget what we were doing in the first place.
So if we want to remember anything, we have to write it down. We are a to-do list family.
I recently read that 45% of Millennials want to travel more for business.
Are they crazy? I mean, I get it. Travel is an opportunity to do something different — to have an experience. But as someone who spent considerable time in seemingly endless business travel, I understand the frequent (non-recreational) flyer’s lament.
