Focus: The Key to Unlocking Your Productivity
Focus is key to productivity. Here’s how to build focus by practicing time blocking, mindfulness, blocking distractions, and learning to return to tasks.
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A Better Project Workflow with Trello’s Custom Fields
Just when you thought your project had reached peak management, in comes one of Trello’s Power-Ups that allow users to optimize their workflow — Custom Fields. A great visual tool for easier collaboration, other perks include adding more context to each task and keeping track of time and duration. Because these at-a-glance visual badges aren’t exclusive to one […]
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How to Keep on Top of Your Project’s Task Management
Project managers know all too much about the importance of project task management. An essential aspect of project management, effective task management could mean the difference between success and failure. Here we’ll share some insight on how you can keep on top of your project’s task management. The term ‘task management’ refers to the process […]
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Spreading the Spreadsheet Knowledge
When spreadsheet software was first introduced to personal computers in the 1980s, it was considered a ‘killer application’. It was a program that was so desirable that people would rush out to purchase computers just so that could use the app. Nowadays, although not a killer app, spreadsheets are still heavily used both in a […]
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How to Make Teamwork Actually Work
Everybody knows that teamwork can make the dream work, but effective teamwork doesn’t just happen out of nowhere. Here’s what you need to be doing to make teamwork, well… work. A prominent aspect in any work environment, teamwork is ‘the process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.’ […]
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Why You Should Be Time Blocking and Not Just Writing To-Do Lists
Much has been written on this blog about how to be productive, how to manage your tasks, and techniques for clarifying what your tasks actually are… But we haven’t spent much time on the best way to actually tackle those tasks! Today is that day. What’s Time Blocking? Time blocking is the practice of […]
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How to Create an Online Database with No Code!
Thanks to the DIY data revolution, small and medium-sized businesses no longer have to rely on the skills, expertise, and hefty price tag of heavyweight tech professionals. Just like do-it-yourself websites, you can now build your own app. Here are some tips on how to create an online database. An online database is a […]
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How Effective is Your Team Task Management?
Those in charge of team task management know that there is more to it than simply delegating tasks. It involves planning, tracking, and reporting all aspects of a task, including status, resources, prioritization, and dependencies. There are many methods of task management, and while there’s not necessarily an entirely wrong way of managing tasks, there […]