While productivity strategies come and go, two stand out as both prominent yet often misunderstood: time blocking and task batching. On the surface, they seem similar. Both methods involve planning ...

While most productivity methods focus on chunks of time throughout a single day, there are few that address what you can get done in a string of many days. So much planning can be daunting, but ...

Every employee has certain obligations throughout the workweek on top of their core job: like attending meetings, taking phone calls, replying to email, and filling out paperwork. It’s natural to want ...

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Do you batch your work? Do you have a never ending to-do list, where you jump from task to task and end up feeling overwhelmed really easily? Task batching helps you work more efficiently, which ...

When it comes to managing our homes and personal lives, most of us aren’t using an Eisenhower Matrix to organize our to-do lists or performing a SWOT analysis to make our mornings run smoothly. But ...

Task analysis is the process of outlining how a task is done. Businesses conduct task analysis activities to help streamline processes and understand what goes into completing a task. Using task ...