I was so honored to have this presentation selected as Best in Track and Best of Conference at the 2014 HighEdWeb Association Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Please check out my blog post with for full details at bit.ly/HumanAtWork
Where does our time go? Somewhere in the middle of our overlapping project deadlines, meetings, and daily emails, we are all just trying to do good work, but it's hard to keep up. We do our best to stay organized with productivity apps and calendars and "lifehacks" but in the end we are humans and easily distracted by funny videos of cats — how can we be expected to actually get stuff done each day? It all comes down to habits. The way we check our email, where and when we have lunch, how we take notes in meetings — understanding and changing our work habits is the key to unlocking our productivity, and finding a better work-life balance. I struggled with managing my own workload for years until I started analyzing my personal productivity habits and researching ways I could improve. I found that small changes in the way that I use email, schedule my time, and manage my tasks, not only made me more productive but also led to improved communication and productivity for my team. I'll show you how some simple changes in the structure of my days and a new approach my work have helped me start replacing bad habits with good ones, and get better at my job. And I'll teach you how to evaluate your own habits, make focused productivity part of every day, and become a healthier, happier, and way-less-stressed human with way more time for enjoying all those cat videos you crave.
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Human At Work (HighEdWeb 2014 "Best of Conference" winner)
1. HUMAN
AT WORK
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Get Better at My Job
2014 HighEdWeb Annual Conference
October 19-22 — Portland, OR
#HEWEB14 #MPD9
5. Challenges I’ve struggled with
since I started in Higher Ed
Goals for changing my habits and
improving my productivity
Tools and tactics
I have been exploring
to achieve those goals
Lessons learned along the way
17. I understood how
websites work.
I didn’t know how
mar-com offices work.
18. Stuff I wasn’t
prepared for
• Shifting responsibilities
• Staffing turnovers
• Changes in strategic priorities
• Planning for what is consistent
• Preparing for the unexpected
39. Subjective Honesty
• what you know in your gut to be true
• the stuff we lie to ourselves about
• internalized priorities
• accuracy when interpreting our performance
40. Objective Honesty
• measuring and capturing data
• developing reports from that data
• analyzing progress over time
• maintaining a record
45. Honest with others
• don’t exaggerate your abilities or bandwidth
• admit when you don't understand something
• admit to your mistakes
• give the feedback you would want to hear
53. U/Aatto 4-WHEN LOST
IN ThE WOODS
A CLEAR HEAD WILL FIND ITSF. If everyone remwbered this,
there would be fewer reports of persons lost in the mountain and
forests, according to United States Forest Service rangers.
Merely being out of sight of others in a strange forest gives
ny a man the creeps- a natural feeling but a dangerous ore. Never
yield to it. In the mountains the grip of panic is too often the
grip of death.
"Firilirig oneself then lost is the test of a man," says a
vete ran of the Forest Service who s seen n, n and even child-ren
save themselves by sheer pluck and preserte of mind. Loss of
ntal control is more serious than lack of food, water, clothing
or possible proximity of wild animals. The man 'io keeps his head
has t best ch arx e to ce through in safety.
The following helpful rules are worth rmbering:-
Stop, sit down and try to figure out ithere you are.
Use your head, not your legs.
If caught by night, fog, or a storm, stop at otice
and make camp in a sheltered spot. Build a fire
in a safe place. Gather plenty of dry el.
Don't wander about. Travel only down hill.
If injured, choose a clear spot ona prcontory and
.ke a signal smoke.
Don't yell, don't run, n't worry, and above all,
don't quit.
If caught out toward nightfall, the traveler is urged to tind
a shelter quickly- a ledge, a Large houlder or a fa1li tree- clear
a sp*ce of ground arii build a fire. If without a bla.nk., he may
build his fire in a deep hole, cover six incks of hot coaLs with
six Inches of earth and sleep on this. Failing fire, cme shoild
use leaves and branches to shelter himself as best he can. A boy
(over)
63. The average
office worker
spends 28%
of their day
reading,
writing, or
responding
to email.
- McKinsey & Company, 2012
http://bit.ly/1zdGtjB
64. My Email Use in September 2014
RescueTime reported email = 22% DeskTime reported email = 23%
65. EMAIL IS
AWESOME FOR:
• Communicating information and ideas
to individuals or groups
• Documenting and archiving information
• Sending assets and files
• Viral sharing
66. EMAIL IS NOT:
• A telephone
• Instant messenger
• A project management system
• The boss of you
67. Turn off those inbox
notification icons.
Fetch email, don’t push.
(if something is truly urgent, there are better
options than email for letting me know)
70. This is mine:
1. Decide if this needs to be acted on now
or later.
2. If it takes less than 2 min. then do it
now.
3. Get what I need for other work, send
what I need to send.
4. Be quick but thorough. Pay attention to
details.
5. Quit mail app until ready for it again.
79. “The most difficult
thing you can do,
and the most
helpful thing, is to
pick one thing.”
–Merlin Mann
bit.ly/b2wpdcst
80. Task Habits
• Capture and get them out of your head
• Organize them with project
milestones and deadlines
• Review and update regularly
• Seriously, review and update your
tasks weekly if you can
83. Social Media
• Too distracting if it’s always there
• Block time when I need to use it as
part of my job.
• Use for personal Twitter
content @DaveCameron
bufferapp.com
90. Meeting Habits
• Be in the meeting, not on your phone
• Capture decisions and next actions
• Report and share
• Use Email & Tasks & Calendar to be
sure you follow through
91. Two
Notepads
• Large notebook just for
capturing meeting
notes and doodles.
• Small yellow pad for
random other stuff
triggered by meetings.
99. Goal: wake up in the morning
Tool: an alarm clock
Habits:
• set the alarm for 6:00 am
• hit snooze when it wakes me
• finally turn off alarm
• head to the shower…
122. Be a Proud Member
of Your Team
• Support your co-workers
• Give a heads-up when you can
• Take ownership of your role
• Don’t cheat
• Be at least a little bit social
140. "There’s only one thing that I
know how to do well
And I've often been told that
you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that's be you,
Be what you're like,
Be like yourself…"
–They Might Be Giants
"Whistling in the Dark"
148. Don’t miss this the slides from another presentation that
bookended this one very nicely at HighEdWeb 2014:
@JesseLavery
slideshare.net/jesselavery/
149. @KarlynMB
Karlyn gave another amazing presentation from
our conference track that you must check out:
zenworkplace.com/playingpolitics
karlynruns.org
151. Podcasts
@HigherEdLive
"2014 Work Hacks" (05/22/14) - bit.ly/hel2014
"Work Hacks and Getting Stuff Done"
(01/24/13) -bit.ly/hel2013
Episode #185 - bit.ly/b2wpdcst
with Merlin Mann & Dan Benjamin
discussion of email
Episode #219 - bit.ly/GTDmpu219
with David Allen, author of
"Getting Things Done"