by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Managing your time well means getting the best return on the investment of the minutes and hours you devote to activities in and out of work. Companies invest approximately $1,280 per employee annually in professional development activities. When you opt to...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
What planner system do you currently use? Are you diligent about using it? What changes, if any, would you like to make to your time management tactics? In another post, we examined the pros and cons of paper planning systems, and I reviewed four paper planners...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
One of my daughter’s favorite year-end activities is to go to the store at the mall that is only open for about two months a year – the calendar store. She browses the hundreds of choices in order to select the calendar with photographs that best reflect her mood and...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Many people mix up the terms “task” and “project.” A task is an action item with a specific deliverable. A project is a bigger initiative with goals, conditions, budgets, and stakeholders. Tasks can have multiple steps but typically have a smaller, more defined...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
I procrastinated in writing this article. Honestly. Yesterday, it was on my Outlook Task list. I looked at the task, grimaced, and worked on email. I decided that I didn’t have enough information to start, so I didn’t. I postponed the task until today. This...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
To achieve the highest level of performance, research shows that the most effective goals are: (1) specific, (2) challenging, and (3) shared with others. However, my weight loss odyssey has taught me that there is one element that is sometimes missing from goals – the...
