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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Supervisors and managers in your organization are having the same thoughts—they want to make 2018 the best year ever, for themselves and their people. Look Back! ?

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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

Success

In a 2018 study on the psychology of ultra-marathon runners, researchers found that mental toughness helps overcome the perception of physical, psychological, emotional and environmental obstacles. Call it maturity or experience, but we start to listen more—internally and externally—and learn to course correct to stay consistent.

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Things Assistants Do That Executives Appreciate

Office Dynamics

I am very fortunate in that I get to read fabulous letters from executives touting the behavior changes they see in their executive or administrative assistants after attending our Star Achievement Series® course. Watch Joan present the top 12 during her Facebook Friday video, 12/7/2018). This course is only taught onsite.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

Productivityist

So this year after I went through the Yearly Words exercise – something I feature in my “anytime” annual planning program The NOW Year Action Plan Course – I decided to use the same three words from 2017 in 2018. I decided to make one resolution for this calendar year: To be more resolute.

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These are the Productivity Tools I Love

Productivityist

BusyCal (M, I, $): I’ve used many different calendar apps, but this one was the one that stuck with me. The tags allow me to colour code anything on my calendar according to the theme it falls under (Coaching, Deep Work, etc.). This calendar is pricier than many out there, but when I love an app, then price is less of a factor).

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

This, of course, goes against today’s always-on, 24/7 global economy, where long hours can seem inevitable, inescapable and natural. No company just lopped a day off their calendar. Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018.

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Ryan Anderson VP of Global Research & Insights MillerKnoll | The Return to Office & Reengineering Cities

Allwork

This was one of the things that concerned me most about the workplace in 2018 and 2019 is that we’ve been seeing desk utilization rates drop for a decade. The physical objects that once run our desk, a calendar, pictures have become apps. And then there’s a separate section where you can go to be as an individual.

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