This document discusses DIY interventions for improving focus and productivity. It describes the author's problems with distraction and lack of focus. It then evaluates two approaches: using a to-do list app to prioritize tasks, and the Pomodoro Technique of breaking work into 25-minute intervals separated by short breaks. The author found the Pomodoro Technique worked better by allowing smaller tasks to be started sooner and worked on flexibly between larger tasks. Results were difficult to quantify but showed an improvement in starting earlier and maintaining focus for longer periods.
Productivity Hacks for Product ManagersJeremy Horn
Slides Andy Wadhwa recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
Synopsis: Getting things done and accomplishing more in less time is an especially important skill for product managers. During this talk, Andy will go over a list of recommendations he has found to be helpful in boosting his level of productivity.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
7 Vital Steps To Reaching Your Goals (personal productivity games)Hibox
Learn more at: https://www.hibox.co/blog/productivity-game-plan-7-vital-steps-to-reaching-your-goals-91a01d374a00/
Productivity boils down to the individual minutes and how you choose to spend them. If we know personal productivity is what stands in the way between us and our goals, why don’t we just do it? Productivity is a mental game and to win you absolutely must set yourself up for success ahead of time.
We’ll give you some tips to set a personal system to guarantee productivity and help you work towards your goals without even thinking about it.
How Employee Can Boost Productivity and Focus at Work by Amy RodilesAmmy Rodiles
Amy Rodiles is a successful businessman who’s the Chief Executive Officer of Rodiles association.Amy Rodiles also a Business Coach who shared tips to increase productivity level.
Productivity Hacks for Product ManagersJeremy Horn
Slides Andy Wadhwa recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
Synopsis: Getting things done and accomplishing more in less time is an especially important skill for product managers. During this talk, Andy will go over a list of recommendations he has found to be helpful in boosting his level of productivity.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
7 Vital Steps To Reaching Your Goals (personal productivity games)Hibox
Learn more at: https://www.hibox.co/blog/productivity-game-plan-7-vital-steps-to-reaching-your-goals-91a01d374a00/
Productivity boils down to the individual minutes and how you choose to spend them. If we know personal productivity is what stands in the way between us and our goals, why don’t we just do it? Productivity is a mental game and to win you absolutely must set yourself up for success ahead of time.
We’ll give you some tips to set a personal system to guarantee productivity and help you work towards your goals without even thinking about it.
How Employee Can Boost Productivity and Focus at Work by Amy RodilesAmmy Rodiles
Amy Rodiles is a successful businessman who’s the Chief Executive Officer of Rodiles association.Amy Rodiles also a Business Coach who shared tips to increase productivity level.
There seems to be an endless stream of things to do and not enough time to do it. The pressures to
succeed and compete for opportunities are greater than ever. No worthy accomplishment is realized
without sacrifice. However, when do we know when we have reached our max? This seminar will help you
implement tools and strategies to more effectively manage time, develop achievable goals and timelines,
and put academics and success in perspective.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
A. Use tools and techniques to manage time and schedules
B. Review SMART goal setting practices
C. Explore techniques to minimize stress
D. Discuss academic pressures and tips to overcome obstacles
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Improve time management and study skills to support positive
academic outcomes
MODERATOR: Maureen Scott, Assistant Professor, Norfolk State University
PANELISTS: Gemma Easterling, Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation;
Tumeka Flanigan, Project Manager, Exelon Corporation
Recruiters never seem to have enough time in the day. There’s a good chance that if you work in TA, you’re reading this in a browser tab that’s open among at least 15 other tabs. Between LinkedIn, Facebook and email – data scraping and boolean searching – you have to find time to DO everything else. Part of that everything is scheduling.
Introduction to Getting Things Done (GTD) & Personal Productivity Ninja - The...Hrishikesh Jobanputra
We are living in an age of distraction. While we are allowing huge amounts of information and communication from the outer world, we are generating equally large volume of ideas and agreements from our inner world.
Amidst hundreds of things to do, we tend to loose perspective and often feel lack of control in our lives. Result, we constantly remain in the state of anxiety and stress.
Neither our standard education, nor traditional time-management models, nor the plethora of organizing tools has given us a viable means of meeting new demands placed on us.
The Personal Productivity Ninja is a course to develop remarkable level of clarity, focus and purpose to achieve Goals. It is possible for you to have an overwhelmingly number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control.
Experience share of the journey, includes failures and methods and techniques used to overcome those troubles and failures.
Objective today is to managing your focus. Not to manage your time, but to manage yourself to get the best out of limited time we have under the workload.
There seems to be an endless stream of things to do and not enough time to do it. The pressures to
succeed and compete for opportunities are greater than ever. No worthy accomplishment is realized
without sacrifice. However, when do we know when we have reached our max? This seminar will help you
implement tools and strategies to more effectively manage time, develop achievable goals and timelines,
and put academics and success in perspective.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
A. Use tools and techniques to manage time and schedules
B. Review SMART goal setting practices
C. Explore techniques to minimize stress
D. Discuss academic pressures and tips to overcome obstacles
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Improve time management and study skills to support positive
academic outcomes
MODERATOR: Maureen Scott, Assistant Professor, Norfolk State University
PANELISTS: Gemma Easterling, Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation;
Tumeka Flanigan, Project Manager, Exelon Corporation
Recruiters never seem to have enough time in the day. There’s a good chance that if you work in TA, you’re reading this in a browser tab that’s open among at least 15 other tabs. Between LinkedIn, Facebook and email – data scraping and boolean searching – you have to find time to DO everything else. Part of that everything is scheduling.
Introduction to Getting Things Done (GTD) & Personal Productivity Ninja - The...Hrishikesh Jobanputra
We are living in an age of distraction. While we are allowing huge amounts of information and communication from the outer world, we are generating equally large volume of ideas and agreements from our inner world.
Amidst hundreds of things to do, we tend to loose perspective and often feel lack of control in our lives. Result, we constantly remain in the state of anxiety and stress.
Neither our standard education, nor traditional time-management models, nor the plethora of organizing tools has given us a viable means of meeting new demands placed on us.
The Personal Productivity Ninja is a course to develop remarkable level of clarity, focus and purpose to achieve Goals. It is possible for you to have an overwhelmingly number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control.
Experience share of the journey, includes failures and methods and techniques used to overcome those troubles and failures.
Objective today is to managing your focus. Not to manage your time, but to manage yourself to get the best out of limited time we have under the workload.
If constant stress has you feeling disillusioned, helpless, and completely exhausted, you may be suffering from burnout. When you’re burned out from stress, problems seem insurmountable, everything looks bleak, and it’s difficult to muster up the energy to care—let alone do something about your situation.
The unhappiness and detachment that burnout causes can threaten your job, your relationships, and your health. But burnout can be overcome. There are plenty of things you can do to regain your balance and start to feel hopeful and positive again.
"Pet Project for Fun and Profit", Vitalii RubanFwdays
What is a Pet Project? How to choose the right theme? What does the "right" theme mean? How to succeed? How to fail? If you want to get answers to the listed questions or dispute with me - please attend the talk "Pet Project for Fun and Profit". We will discuss time management, common pitfalls, pains, and fun.
The talk will not do the Pet Project for you but might give you some sparkles of inspiration and save you from some failures. PetProject for Fun and Profit might be interesting for beginners or those considering beginning a pet project.
A presentation of some of the best, easy to implement tools going around to help you improve your productivity, achieve a zero inbox, and improve your effectiveness.
Are you busy; really pressed for time? Take a look into the strategies used by people who produce superior results use to get the most out of their time and effort.
Productivity: The Secret Sauce for Success - Job Search Catherine Morgan
Who doesn’t need to squeeze more productive time out of their day? And have you ever noticed that when you have too much time, nothing gets done? Here's how you can be more productive every day. This deck will give you actionable tips that you can use immediately.
The Surprising Strategy to Accomplish what Matters: Doing LessJacqueline L. Frank
Overwhelmed by your to-do list? If you are constantly saying ‘yes’ while dreaming of a future with a manageable workload, room for creativity, and time for self-care, this session is for you. Come learn strategies to employ minimalism at work, which brings clarity and focus to only the most essential items. Leave with an online toolkit including templates for saying no and communicating priorities, and practical methods for limiting scope creek, so you can accomplish what truly matters.
View the TOOLKIT: Doing Less to Accomplish what matters on Google Drive at bit.ly/Toolkit_DoingLess
Time mangement or getting things done for engineering managersVidal Graupera
Vidal works as an engineering manager at Uber and previously at Autodesk and Walmart Labs. He runs managersclub.com where he's interviewed 65+ different engineering leaders. One of the questions he asks everyone is “What’s your workday like and how do you manage your time, emails, etc.?”. Besides personal experience and study into this topic of productivity and time management, Vidal has collected the answer to this question from 65 different leaders to collect best practices and the common themes.
Time management is a constant challenge for all EMs. And as an EM everybody wants a piece of you, right? This can be especially overwhelming for new managers. I will share tips, tactics, and strategies to get things done based on over 65 interviews of engineering managers and my personal experience. Topics include planning your day, time boxing, emails, calendar management, to-do lists, and effective meetings.
Presented at Lead Dev Meetup - Mountain View - May 2, 2019
Presentation about an experiment to introduce more randomness into my life. These slides accompany a five minute presentation to a class on the design of behavioral health interventions. Concepts covered by the intervention include Durkheimian Network theory, commitment and consistency, cognitive dissonance, and gamification. Learning outcomes form a qualitative analysis of a personal journal.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.
2. Problem: how to focus
• Why?
• Always jumping from task to task, don’t know where
my time is going
• Distracted at home, online
• I’ve gotten away with it, last minute (brain dead)
• Preferences
• Prefer getting small tasks out of the way
• Think in terms of 1-2 days out, not week(s)
• Work best in the morning: focus on one thing
3. Purpose: Prioritize
• FirstTask Pro
• Android app created by my uncle (beta version)
• Basically a Master “To Do” list
• Create categories with a list of tasks and mark which is
highest priority
• “Today” category lists the those items and you pick which
of them is the highest priority from there
• Therefore, you should always be working on your most
important task
4. Planning: May not work
• Found that reoccurring tasks didn’t fit well into this
priority scheme
• Something bigger may be more “important” but
something else may be be due sooner
• Can’t realistically complete those items, so can’t check
off… so nothing to show I was doing anything
• So switched gears: the Pomodoro Technique
• Breaking time into 25 minute “pomodoros” followed by
short break (5 min)
• After 4 Pomodoros take a longer break (20-30 min)
• Used FocusBooser (focusboosterapp.com)
5. Progress: Productivity
• More realistic for me
• Breaking large tasks into smaller chunks so start on
them sooner
• Flexibility to alternate with small tasks
• Results?
• Hard to measure (catch-22)
• Quantify focused time
• Past Wednesdays: don’t start until 12 or 1pm
• Started only with 2-3 pomodoros in the evening, then 6
• Today I started at 9 and focused until 3
