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Podcast 114: Organizing systems for growth

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Work starts piling up because new people need to be trained to do things that previously everyone just seemed to know how to do. That training takes time that hasn’t been budgeted for and during the growth phase, people aren’t likely to have spare time. No one knows where to put them or who to ask about it.

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Podcast 086: Design thinking

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It also means I strive not to make assumptions about my client’s situation but, as coaches are trained to do, come from a position of curiosity and discovery. You might define the problem as “I need a better system for managing paper so that I get things done on time and don’t waste time looking for what I need.”

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Podcast 120: Rewarding yourself

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You’re no longer putting in a few hours a day training or spending every morning working on that book. I write quite a bit about how to give yourself small, doable to do’s and pay attention to your own behavior so you can manage your attention and energy and calibrate your to do list accordingly. Your schedule is disrupted.

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Let the Right Ones In

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Don’t include emails that were resent with better subject lines so that you actually read them (that could mean you successfully trained the sender by not responding!) Then go through them and see if you really missed anything of consequence. Want to take it further?

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Let the Right Ones In

Clutter Coach

Don’t include emails that were resent with better subject lines so that you actually read them (that could mean you successfully trained the sender by not responding!) Then go through them and see if you really missed anything of consequence. Want to take it further?

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