The most valuable asset you have in your life is time. If you had infinite time on this planet, you could achieve every single thing you wanted. The time limitation is the biggest burden of our lives. Therefore the first rule of success is to manage time wisely.
In 77 slides you will get to know all the best time management techniques. You will learn how to manage distraction, organize yourself, deal with procrastination and how to organize your to-do lists.
The presentation has six parts:
1. The biggest time wasters
2. Procrastination
3. Eliminating distractions from your life
4. Organizing yourself
5. Productivity tricks
6. Agile and lean time management ideas
Enjoy it!
Time Management cannot happen without prioritization. In this presentation there are some powerful time management tips and time management tools. Time management skills for all leaders is a non-negotiable skill.
Time Management cannot happen without prioritization. In this presentation there are some powerful time management tips and time management tools. Time management skills for all leaders is a non-negotiable skill.
4 STEPS TO EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT - turning time into productivityTom Fox
4 steps you can do to make your time more productive, better connect what you do to what you achieve, reduce your stress and help better manifest your success. Try these techniques over 2 weeks and you will see results
23 Time Management Techniques of Insanely Busy PeopleDaniel Silvestre
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Good time management techniques simplify how you work and help you get things done better and faster. Here are my 23 favorite time management techniques. They are a set of principles, rules, and skills that allow you to put your focus on the things that matter and help you be more productive.
Full article: http://www.dansilvestre.com/time-management-techniques/
Learn Basic but powerful concepts of Time Management. What is time? What are Time Stealer? Time Management Matrix with explanation. Time Management Tips.
Time Management has become more crucial than ever before. With Work from Home options, employees and managers alike are more stressed and more time strapped than ever before. How can you master this - here are the Time management hacks.
This presentations is about time management, how one can improve their time, what are those things/activities one should avoid. And some important Tips and Tools.
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What is time management?
It is the crucial aspect of in our life. It is a unique resource and it cannot be recovered Time management is the conscious control of time we spent on specific activities. If you are not managing your time it means that you are not managing yourself. In order to utilize our time effectively and stay productive we need to plan our time. Everyone has the same 24 hours per day irrespective of caste , gender , race or religion. But some people achieve their goals and some people keep complaining that they have not enough time. Time management is using your time effectively. Time management enables people to do more work in less time. Lack of time management, leads to miserable consequences like missing the dead line. Poor work quality. High stress levels, work imbalance and tension, .Lack of time management is a detrimental to person’s career.,
This presentation contains some powerful time management tips that, if followed, has an immediate impact of productivity. Effective time management can only be achieved by prioritization that is the focus of our time management training.
Have you ever found yourself bleary-eyed and strung out from too much coffee and too little sleep after pulling an "all nighter" right before the big biology test? If you are a full-time student, you have a full-time job. You may not think of school as a job but consider this. You typically have 12-15 or more hours of class per week. In addition, you are expected to put in about 2 hours of preparation and production outside of class for each hour in class. This means that your work week is at least 36 to 45 hours long. This is a full-time occupation. In "Time Management for College Students," we will give you some guidelines to help you better manage your time.
The presentation is about minimum viable product, what is it, why is it important and how to build it. In the presentation you can find many ideas that will help you with the build, measure and learn loop.
The second part of the presentation is about pivoting. Pivots are fundamental changes in business strategy and very important part of avoiding the big failure without learning or even worse becoming a zombie company.
The Lean Startup Basics and Intro for BeginnersBlaz Kos
The presentation focuses on providing an overview, fundamentals and history of the concept of the lean startup companies.
The presentation very clearly shows why business plans are not that much important anymore, what is waste in business and how to reduce it and why every start-up must be a learning organization.
4 STEPS TO EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT - turning time into productivityTom Fox
4 steps you can do to make your time more productive, better connect what you do to what you achieve, reduce your stress and help better manifest your success. Try these techniques over 2 weeks and you will see results
23 Time Management Techniques of Insanely Busy PeopleDaniel Silvestre
Get more productivity hacks: oneproductivity.com/?ref=slideshare_time_management_techniques
Good time management techniques simplify how you work and help you get things done better and faster. Here are my 23 favorite time management techniques. They are a set of principles, rules, and skills that allow you to put your focus on the things that matter and help you be more productive.
Full article: http://www.dansilvestre.com/time-management-techniques/
Learn Basic but powerful concepts of Time Management. What is time? What are Time Stealer? Time Management Matrix with explanation. Time Management Tips.
Time Management has become more crucial than ever before. With Work from Home options, employees and managers alike are more stressed and more time strapped than ever before. How can you master this - here are the Time management hacks.
This presentations is about time management, how one can improve their time, what are those things/activities one should avoid. And some important Tips and Tools.
www.howledge.blogspot.com
What is time management?
It is the crucial aspect of in our life. It is a unique resource and it cannot be recovered Time management is the conscious control of time we spent on specific activities. If you are not managing your time it means that you are not managing yourself. In order to utilize our time effectively and stay productive we need to plan our time. Everyone has the same 24 hours per day irrespective of caste , gender , race or religion. But some people achieve their goals and some people keep complaining that they have not enough time. Time management is using your time effectively. Time management enables people to do more work in less time. Lack of time management, leads to miserable consequences like missing the dead line. Poor work quality. High stress levels, work imbalance and tension, .Lack of time management is a detrimental to person’s career.,
This presentation contains some powerful time management tips that, if followed, has an immediate impact of productivity. Effective time management can only be achieved by prioritization that is the focus of our time management training.
Have you ever found yourself bleary-eyed and strung out from too much coffee and too little sleep after pulling an "all nighter" right before the big biology test? If you are a full-time student, you have a full-time job. You may not think of school as a job but consider this. You typically have 12-15 or more hours of class per week. In addition, you are expected to put in about 2 hours of preparation and production outside of class for each hour in class. This means that your work week is at least 36 to 45 hours long. This is a full-time occupation. In "Time Management for College Students," we will give you some guidelines to help you better manage your time.
The presentation is about minimum viable product, what is it, why is it important and how to build it. In the presentation you can find many ideas that will help you with the build, measure and learn loop.
The second part of the presentation is about pivoting. Pivots are fundamental changes in business strategy and very important part of avoiding the big failure without learning or even worse becoming a zombie company.
The Lean Startup Basics and Intro for BeginnersBlaz Kos
The presentation focuses on providing an overview, fundamentals and history of the concept of the lean startup companies.
The presentation very clearly shows why business plans are not that much important anymore, what is waste in business and how to reduce it and why every start-up must be a learning organization.
Startups don't win because of a great vision, but because of a superior strategy. If you want to have the superior strategy, you must simply have a better customer insight. Customer discovery principles can help you to get real insights about your customers.
The first rule is to fall in love with a problem, not your solution or business idea. You must have a clear picture what your product is hired to do. With customer interviews and different types of tests your job is to prove value hypothesis (that people are prepared to pay for your solution).
You can write down all your hypotheses on business model canvas, running lean canvas or even in a spreadsheet. Then you have to constantly sketch out alternative business models by asking yourself difficult questions and testing different assumptions.
Steps to customer discovery include developing a vision, setting the hypotheses, getting out of the building and performing a reality checks. The best way to start the customer discovery process is with the riskiest assumptions.
Important tools that can help you with customer discovery are also segmentation, personas, empathy map and value proposition canvas. After exploiting all the tools you should have a clear picture what are your customer's pains and gains and what are they willing to pay for.
When you are doing the customer discovery interviews to get the market insights you have to avoid doing any behavior predictions or being satisfied with compliments, opinions or stalling. What are you looking for is a real commitment from early-evangelists.
Remember, wrong assumptions are mother of all fu*ck-ups, and with customer discovery you can make sure you are not building your business based on the wrong assumptions.
The presentation is about basics how to build a winning start-up team. In the presentation you will find that people follow people (leaders) and ideas that emotionally excite them. If you have both is the far best combination.
But even more important fact is that many winning teams had worked together on a few projects where they had become synchronized before they founded their own startup and succeeded. Nevertheless you will find a few hints how to build your winning team from the scratch.
The presentation ends with a few thought about leadership.
The presentation is about the changes that took us into the post-information age and why are entrepreneurs so important part of the creative society.
In the presentation you will get familiar with the basics who are successful individuals in the creative society, who are entrepreneurs and what are elements of success for the startup companies.
The presentation also describes the biggest mistakes people make when starting a new business and how can good business ideas be categorized based on their core competence.
The presentation is about business planning and how to write a business plan. For most of the start-ups agile and lean approach is much better than business plan, but for some traditional industries and more mature companies a business plan is still a tool to use.
In the presentation you will find all the relevant information why to write a business plan and how to do it. You will get the necessary knowledge how to write a business plan based on the following structure:
1. Company purpose
2. Market analysis
3. Marketing plan
4. Intellectual property
5. Production plan
6. Risk mitigation
7. Team
8. Timeline
9. Financial plan
10. Appendixes
Everything you need to know about an investment and fundraising for start-ups. The presentation covers all different sources of financing for high growth companies:
- Bootstrapping and the four Fs
- Angel investors
- Startup accelerators
- Venture capital funds
- Investment documentation
- Alternative funding sources (crowdfunding, etc.)
- Grants and incentives
In the presentation you will also find some basics how to prepare your investment documentation and how to pitch to venture capital investors.
The presentation covers the main reasons why and how to become a business angel.
It starts with who business angles are and why startups are such an interesting investment opportunities and continues with topics like mitigating risks, setting the investment strategy and investing criteria and so on.
The presentation ends with describing benefits of deal syndication and joining a business angel network.
The presentation is about creating a pitch deck for investors, following the 10/20/30 rule.
It shows how you should cover in only 10 slides the most important elements of your start-up strategy:
- Problem and the opportunity
- Solution, customers and vision
- Business and revenue model
- Technology and intellectual property
- Marketing and sales
- Competition
- Team
- Financial projections / Key Metrics
- Status and timeline
- Summary and business proposal
The presentation is about valuation of a start-up and usual deal structure - term sheet.
In the presentation you can find an overview why traditional valuation methods don't work (DCF, P/E multiple,...) and what are the real life approaches. You can also find more about types of the investments and potential exits.
The second part of the presentation is dedicated to the term-sheet and most frequent terms in an equity investment, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. In the presentation are listed the most frequent provision you can stumble upon, but no term sheet includes all of them.
In the presentation you can learn about many different clauses that influence economics and control in a venture capital deal. Nevertheless you should read more on the web (Term Sheet Hacks...) and the books like Venture Deal to have a clear picture if you have a good deal on the table or not for your startup.
Innovation accounting and key metrics for startupsBlaz Kos
The traditional accounting in start-ups is usually incredibly simple - revenues, margins, free cash flow and other traditional accounting metrics are zero or very close to zero.
It is also impossible to do financial forecasts for start-ups (P&L, balance sheet,...) since accurate forecasting requires a long and stable operating history. Therefore a start-up must focus on the key metrics that show real progress in the search mode before becoming a stable business and use innovation accounting instead of traditional accounting as a framework for measuring performance.
The presentation covers the basics of being a data-driven organization, the difference between vanity, actionable and other types of metrics, why you should focus on one metrics that matter in different stages of a start-up, what are the common pitfalls when analyzing the data and how to use AARRR as the best framework for analytics, especially for web start-ups.
Different types of startups, markets and whysBlaz Kos
This presentation is about various types of startup companies, markets and core competencies.
In the presentation you will learn why market trends are important, why markets always win, how to calculate market size and why you have to start with the strong why.
You will also learn the fundamental difference between established companies and startups. Startups are designed to search and established companies to execute.
Transitions are a critical time for leaders at all levels. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize your success.
In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of taking on a new role — no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face more frequent changes and steeper expectations when they start their new jobs.
Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, or embarking on an overseas assignment, this is the guide you’ll need to succeed in your first 90 days — and beyond.
Silicon Valley’s Tools for Translating Startup Ideas into Billion Dollar Comp...Rod King, Ph.D.
This presentation features the POKER-Scorecard which is a shared language and platform for presenting and applying any business tool especially those used in Silicon Valley.
Five Pitfalls and time-wasters to avoid in social media marketing. You often see tips and tricks for putting the power of social media to work and what you need in order to be successful in social media pull marketing. The other side of the coin is a list of things that are harmful or counterproductive to your social media goals – in other words, stuff to avoid doing.
As the old saying goes "Time is Money"!
Here's a quick SlideShare with 15 easy and actionable tips to maximize your hours every day and multiply your productivity.
From waking up early to scheduling your duties, every tip is sure to help you if applied correctly.
Wishing you success!
Unlocking the Secrets of Work-Life Balance - Slide Deck.pptxcoachdirk
Unlocking the Secrets of Work-Life Balance
A Guide to Pursuing Your Dreams Without Burning Out
The Work-Life Crisis
We’ve come a long way from the early days of the Industrial Revolution when people would work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, in factories. But we still have a long way to go.
Ask most people how work is going, and they’ll reply, “Busy!” Everyone has a lot to do and not enough time to get it all done. The explosion of time-management and productivity books in the last 30 years is evidence that most people feel like they can’t accomplish all they need to at work.
This constant feeling of falling behind is leading many people to work longer and longer hours. Consider these statistics:
● 66 percent of Americans who are full-time employees don’t believe they have a good work-life balance
● The United States ranks very low in terms of work-life balance (30th out of 38)
● A whopping one-third of all employed Americans work weekends or holidays
● One out of every 10 Americans works 50+ hours per week
It would appear that, for many people, work-life balance is a myth.
Why are things so imbalanced for so many people? While each case is unique, there are certainly common threads:
● Long commutes
● Demanding, unsympathetic bosses
● Difficulty getting time off
● Being asked to work overtime
● Unnecessary and unproductive meetings
● Ever-increasing responsibilities
On top of all this, many employees are constantly connected to their workplace via their smartphones. Even when they’re out of the office, they still receive a steady stream of work-related emails, text messages, and chat messages. The constant communication makes it even harder to fully stop working.
But is work-life balance really that important? So people work long hours and don’t take much time off. Is that really a problem?
Yes, it is.
Working too many hours hurts your relationships with friends and family, causing you to miss important events and spend less time with loved ones. Overwork also can cause significant health problems, including:
● A weakened immune system
● Significant fatigue
● Increased risk of heart attack and stroke
● Depression, anxiety, and irritability
● Higher stress levels
As if these things weren’t bad enough, an unhealthy work-life balance also creates challenges in the workplace, causing low morale, employee burnout, high amounts of turnover, and lower productivity.
Considering that work-life balance has ramifications for your health, relationships, job performance, and overall satisfaction in life, this raises one hugely important question:
How do you actually move toward a healthy work-life balance?
After all, it’s one thing to talk about the value and importance of work-life balance. It’s something else altogether to actually make it happen.
In this guide, you’ll discover proven strategies that will help you move toward a more pleasing work-life balance.
t is crucial that the first impression makes a lasting impact. Professional image create positive impressions with your clients and prospects. Knowing how to manage personal presentation will help the young professionals to be confident. Your customers are not only convinced in what goes on in the transaction but would be quietly assessing you on your appearance, posture, social etiquette and graces.
The aim of this presentation is to equip young executives with the information and skill necessary to ensure that their personal and professional image does not detract from the productiveness of their commercial effort, or the image of their employer.
It is crucial that the first impression makes a lasting
impact. Professional image create positive impressions
with your clients and prospects.
Knowing how to manage personal presentation will
help the young professionals to be confident. Your
customers are not only convinced in what goes on in
the transaction but would be quietly assessing you on
your appearance, posture, social etiquette and graces.
The aim this presentation is to
equip young executives with the information and skill
necessary to ensure that their personal and professional
image does not detract from the productiveness of their
commercial effort, or the image of their employer.
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5 Ideas to Bolster Buoyancy, Wellbeing and Resilience during times of distress.
Supporting ourselves, our friends, families and co-workers during the Covid-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic.
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. The mindset
There are three main reasons why we are here:
• to enjoy life having deep connections with people and nature
• to grow personal improvement
• to contribute creating value
Either you move forward or you go backwards. Going forward
feels much better. You should become the best version of
yourself.
3. To go forward you have to manage your
time wisely, because it‘s the most
valuable asset you have in your life.
Available time =
wasted time + invested time
5. THE ONLY WAY TO REACH YOUR
MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY
You have to find your powerful why that
gives your life a deeper meaning and
makes everything else secondary.
Why do you want to be more productive?
Simon Sinek: Start with why
6. Agenda
1. The biggest time wasters
2. Procrastination
3. Eliminating distractions from your life
4. Organizing yourself
5. Productivity tricks
6. Agile and lean time management ideas
8. Time wasters are all activities you do during
the day that lead to no real progress.
9. Ten biggest time wasters
1. E-mail
2. Instant messaging (IM)
3. Meetings and socializing
4. Social Networks
5. Daily News
6. Conferences
7. Smart phone and tablet
8. Logistics
9. In-between time
10. TV, movies and games
10. E-mail
• Fake feeling of progress, urgency and importance
• You feel like you have done something and you feel
connected
• Feeling of security and social proof
REALITY
• Biggest distraction and enforced to-do list of other people
• You never check only e-mail (online time wasters loop)
11.
12. E-mail
• Zero inbox policy. No e-mails, no burden.
• Alternative: Keep everything in the inbox, but only if it doesn‘t bother you.
• Delete, delegate, do immediately / take action.
• Look at your e-mail account on your desktop computer only twice a day.
• Only answer the important e-mails.
• Try to reply e-mails with only one word or one sentence at the most.
• Use templates (for customers etc.) - Yesware
13. If you want to have fewer messages in your
inbox, send and answer fewer e-mails.
14. Why do you feel guilty if you don't reply all the e-mails?
• You want to be seen as a good person
• You want all of your e-mails to be answered (karma)
• You believe other people will resent you
• Overactive conscience: False guilt is always looking for
people to please and rules to be kept.
E-mail guilt
ANSWER E-MAILS TO PEOPLE YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT
15. Instant messaging (IM)
TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS
OPEN YOUR CHAT WINDOW ONLY
• When you face some creative challenges you cannot find a solution on net
• When you need additional motivation to conquer your daily goals
• When you need to relax after your daily working capacities have run out
• When you feel like you need to have a deep conversation with someone
• When someone really needs your help and advice
16. Meetings and socializing
• We are social beings
• Offline version of e-mail and IM
• Meetings are the biggest time
wasters besides e-mail
• 50% of meetings are completely
unnecessary and useless
• Preparation, change of location,
small talk, exchange of opinions etc.
17. Only schedule a meeting for…
COLLECTIVE BRAINPOWER AND GOAL ALIGNMENT
• Setting the strategy
• Business planning
• Brainstorming ideas
• Building relationships with your team
• Selling
• Building relationships with your customers
18. How to run a successful meeting
1. Ask yourself, can we do it over phone, e-mail etc.?
2. Minimize logistics and motion
3. Have clear objective and desired output of a meeting
4. Invite as minimum people as possible, only players
5. Stick to your schedule and agenda, have a timer
6. Ban technology
7. End with action steps and do the follow up
19. Social Networks
• Social Networks can be either asset or liability
• Dramatically increased social pressure
A SIMPLE SOLUTION
• You can unsubscribe from most of your “friends”, because
who cares what they are doing, and
• You can fill your news feed with some motivational quotes,
life hack news, and other articles and pictures that will boost
your motivation.
• Use page blockers like StayFacusd
20. Daily News
• Daily news gives us sense of (fake) connection with the world
• Most of the news is negative & brings fake feeling of urgency and
importance
• The news is history. It already happened. You have zero influence.
• If you want to co-create the future, you need to empty your mind, make
some creative free time and focus on your goals.
Great minds think and discuss ideas; average minds discuss events and
news; small minds discuss people.
22. Conferences
• New knowledge, new people, new sales, new possibilities, motivation…
BUT…
• Few conferences per year can really add value to your life, and those
are usually the conferences where you know exactly who you want to
meet or at which you can generate some sales leads.
• New knowledge – rather MOOC
• New connections – rather targeted networking
23. Smart phones and tablets
• Every interruption with an incoming call means losing focus, switching
from important work to the phone call, and getting back to work with a
possible (negative) change of emotional state (if people have bad
information for you).
• When doing any of important tasks, you want to make sure that your mobile
phone is switched off or put on silent.
• In today’s life, smart phones and tablets are all-in-one distractions –
news, social networks, games and similar time wasters; right in your pocket.
• UNINSTALL ALL THE SH*T THAT WASTES YOUR TIME
24. Logistics
• Driving from one place to another
can be a big waste of time.
• Reduce logistics as much as
possible.
• Listen to audio books or
podcasts while driving.
• Don‘t use phone while driving.
25. In-between time and motion
• Going to a meeting
• Waiting for people
• Waiting for your computer to load
• Switching from e-mail to social networks
• Waking up and snoozing your alarm clock 5x
• Looking for files and folders on your desk or desktop
DELETE, DELEGATE, OUTSORCE AUTOMATE, OPTIMIZE, ORGANIZE
26. TV, movies, games & browsing internet
• We all need some entertainment. Some.
• TV is nothing but a multimedia ad player
• When you are watching TV, you are not living your life, you are
wasting it.
• People on the other side of the screen are living their dream lives.
• Same goes for social networks and browsing web. If you prefer
browsing internet, install a web nanny and stop.
27. Worry
• Worrying brings only unproductive tension
• A few minutes of extreme negative feelings equals energy of an
average working day
• Create „worry period“ or postpone worry
• Make a plan, take action
• Most of the things you are worrying about are just construct of your
imagination. Most of the things you worry about never happen.
• Build up your emotional security
31. Exercise 1
1. Rank all the time
wasters from 1 to 10
2. Brainstorm ideas
how you can deal
better with the
time wasters
1. E-mail
2. Instant messaging (IM)
3. Meetings and socializing
4. Social Networks
5. Daily News
6. Conferences
7. Smart phone and tablet
8. Logistics
9. In-between time
10. TV, movies and games
33. Why do you procrastinate?
1. Laziness
2. Lack of energy and stress
3. Unreasonably big goals
4. Lack of competences
5. Addictive behavior
6. Fake passion
7. Fear and self-sabotage
36. Lack of energy and stress
• Exercise
• Diet
• Enough sleep and sex
• Drink water
• Five to six meals through day
• No unhealthy snacks
• Veggies and fruits
• Manage your energy, not time
37. Having unreasonably big goals
• Don‘t bite off more than you can chew
• Dream big, but start small
• Slice and dice your big goals into small steps
38. Lack of competences
Level
up
your
game
1. Psychological capital
2. Talents
3. Knowledge & IQ
4. Skills
5. Emotional intelligence
6. Social intelligence
7. Experience (to certain extent)
8. Values
9. Views & Beliefs
10. Social capital
11. Personal brand
39. Addictive behavior
• You can’t really quit your addictive habit
• You can only replace it with a new habit
• You want to replace most of your negative habits with
positive ones
• Negative habits should become triggers for positive ones
Go read a book
every time someone turns on TV.
41. Fake passion & no talent
You want to make sure that your goals
are totally aligned with your own:
• life vision
• life mission (why?)
• and values
• your competences
• N1: Follow your passion
• N2: Follow your effort
42. Fear, self-sabotage and perfectionism
• If you are fighting your subconscious fears with your discipline
only, the subconscious will always win.
• The fear of failure
• The fear of success
• Perfectionism (cognitive distortion)
• When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
43. Exercise 2
1. Laziness
2. Lack of energy and stress
3. Having unreasonably big goals
4. A lack of skill
5. Addictive behavior
6. Fake passion
7. Fear and self-sabotage
8. Perfectionism
Why do you
usually
procrastinate?
45. The best way to deal with distractions is to
eliminate all the distractions way before they
get a chance to kick you out of the flow.
46.
47. Dealing with distractions
• Identify your main distractions
• Don‘t count on your self-discipline
• Build a system that will help you eliminate all the distractions
• Put a “do not disturb” sign on your office or private room door
• Turn off your phone
• Install a web nanny and block all the fun sites you are addicted to
• Close e-mail and the IM application
• Do the same with all other potential distractions
48.
49. Energy vampires
Negative people are ultra-uncomfortable distractions in your
life. Not only do they waste your time, they also suck the energy
out of you.
ARE YOU AN ENERGY VAMPIRE?
• You feel like a victim (of the country, system, primary family…)
• You bitch, whine and complain a lot
• You are completely dissatisfied with your life
• You are not grateful for what you have in your life
• People hesitate when you want to spent time with them
50. NO POLITICS
Don’t lose precious energy on battles that
don’t really matter.
Every time you fight with pigs, you get
dirty.
51. Multitasking
• Don’t try to feel more
productive or busy by
multitasking.
• You can find hundreds of
scientific studies that very
clearly show that multi-tasking
doesn’t work.
52. Exercise 3
1. E-mail and IM
2. Meetings
3. Managers
4. People stopping by
5. Phone calls
6. Etc.
1. Identify your main
distractions
2. How can you
systematically
unsubscribe from
them to work more in
the flow?
54. Understanding your values
• Values are the core source of making decisions in your life
• It doesn’t matter what you say, what matters is how you
make decisions and what you do
• Immediate implementation is the key
• Only the things that you focus on will grow
• If you want to make progress in a specific area of life, you will
have to rearrange your values and shuffle new priorities
55. Important and urgent tasks
• Unsuccessful people prioritize urgent tasks
• Adrenaline
• Easy accomplishments
• Fake feeling of progress
• Successful people focus on important tasks
• Important tasks are all the tasks connected to creating value,
delivering value and capturing value
• You should spent 80% of your time on important tasks
58. Know your KPIs
Sales
• Number of calls, number of meetings, number of closed deals…
Marketing
• Engagement level, number of leads, number of new customers…
Secretary
• No administrative bottle-necks, making other people more
productive…
INNOVATE YOUR
WAY UP
59. Organizing your tasks – Core lists
• Vision List
• The 100 Days List
• Personal Sprint Backlog (14 days)
• Daily 3T list for 2 to 3 daily flows – FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
• Use Kanban board
3D: DELETE, DELEGATE, DO
60.
61. Organizing your tasks – Other lists
• Not to do list
• Maybe someday list
• Idea list
• Personal improvement list
• Reading list
• Anti-shopping list
• Grocery shopping list etc.
63. Know your limits
• You have daily limits for how much you can actually do. Do
not overestimate your daily energy capacities
• There is never enough time to do everything, but there is
always enough time to do the most important things
• Manage your energy, not only time
• SET LIMITS
• HAVE ENOUGH MARGIN
• TAKE A STEP BACK
64. Exercise 4
1. Important tasks
2. Urgent tasks
1. Write down your most
important tasks in the
company you work for
2. How are urgent tasks
preventing you to work on
important ones?
3. How can you organize your
to-do lists better?
66. The time-boxing technique
• You reserve certain hours of the day in your calendar for your
important activities and company goals
• Make sure you begin whenever you time-boxed the time
• Starting something will automatically lead you to the next step
• When you start something, your brains want to finish it and you
can use that to your advantage
Time-box 1 to 3 working flows per day
67. The saw story
• Never forget to sharpen the saw
• Physical level – diet, exercise, sex and sleep
• Emotional level – connect with people, be grateful and optimistic
• Mental level – read, do brain exercises, create etc.
• Spiritual level – have a purpose, give back to the community, help coworkers
• Also don‘t forget to put down the saw
• Rest is as important as work
• One day per week
• One extended weekend (4 days) for every quarter and
• Additional two full-time weeks (14 days) a year.
68. Take breaks after the flow
After 2 – 3 hours of focused work take a 20 – 30 minute break
• Have a snack
• Stretch
• Take a short power nap
• Go for a walk
69. Transaction costs
How much of your resources does it take to start a new activity?
• Increase transaction costs
for unproductive activities
(don‘t have junk food at reach)
• Decrease transaction costs
for productive activities
(shortcuts on your desktop)
70. Other practical advice
• Clean your desk and have everything in place
• Be minimalist and try to have as few things as possible in life
• Asset-light living and living „in the cloud“
• Know your biorhythm
• Two computer screens
• Use productivity apps
• Have growth mindset and always improve yourself
• Bring solutions with a problem (problem solving mindset)
72. Lean
• Remove all the waste
• The biggest waste is doing/building something nobody wants
• Wrong assumptions are mother of all f*ck-ups
• No business plan survives first contact with the market
• Learn with great speed – experiment, test, measure
• Measure everything
• Create, deliver and capture value (no money = no value)
• Don‘t be a zombie (live life don’t only exist)
73.
74. Waste and causes of waste
1. Poor work methods and lack of skills
2. A little understanding of the entire process
3. Poor communication and weak personal network
4. Lack of organization and technology gaps
5. Layout, long set-up time and avoidable interruptions
6. Complexity
7. Historic supervisory roles and historic behavioral patterns
8. Buying things you don‘t need
9. Poor suppliers and partners who don‘t perform
10. Irrelevant performance measures
75. Agile
• Work in small teams
• Kanban board: Visualize as much as possible (Kanban)
• Bi-Weekly sprints
• Daily Scrum: Short morning meeting with your team
• Constant improvement (Kaizen)
• A no interruptions day / Themed Day
• Creative day
• Execution day
• Learning day etc.
76. The right values in your environment
• Your values + 5T
• Talent
• Technology
• Tolerance
• Transparency
• Transcendence
5T
77. Additional Resources
Blaz Kos
www.AgileLeanLife.com
• James Clear: Transform Your Habits
• Richard A. Swenson: Margin
• Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog
• Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Simon Sinek: Start With Why
• AgileLeanLife Productivity Framework