The term “conflict” is pretty much a four-letter word in any agency, business, or organization, mainly because it’s usually associated with disagreements, misalignment, or even worse, bullying and harassment.However, workplace conflict can also be beneficial to your team, and there are numbers ...
According to a survey of 2,000 U.S. knowledge workers, they spend only 44% of their workweek doing their primary activities. That basically means that their core activities take a backseat to stuff like meetings and emails. And it’s all because of poor time management.The most worrying thing about ...
Humans are a funny lot. We like setting and achieving goals because it gives us a sense of purpose. We like rules and routines because it keeps us in-line and organized. And we love fail-proof strategies and hacks because they promise to make us more focused, driven, productive and successful beings.One ...
Jumping from one task to another, hoping to clear as much as is humanly possible in a working day, is not productivity; it’s a recipe for disaster.When you have no plan of attack, you waste energy and time. On top of that, you also experience higher levels of stress. To avoid this, most people turn ...
When it comes to SMEs, we mostly hear success stories because, let’s face it, everybody loves a good success story. However, we don’t get to hear much about how tough and competitive it is out there, and how many SMEs actually go belly up.According to research, only 48.9% of small businesses make ...
According to SmartBrief, 28.57% of leaders have said that they distribute the workload very well among team members, with 61.9% of them saying that they do it well. Only 1.73% have admitted to doing a poor job.However, it’s easy to suspect that they haven’t been completely honest, because an unbalanced ...
According to Deloitte, 77% of workers have experienced burnout at their current job, with 51% of them going through it more than once. Let’s just say it right off the bat: people are overworked. Across all industries, ages, genders, and locations. Across the board. We’re not going to get into why ...
According to the numbers, your average employee spends 51% of the workday on tasks of little to no value. Also, that same average employee gets interrupted about 60 times during the day.And when you read similar stats about how employees are stressed and overworked, it all points to a paradox of sorts ...
Instead of looking for ways to increase the number of working hours in a day, what we should be doing is looking for ways to make better use of our time. According to a small experiment conducted by Steve Glaveski, author and founder of Collective Campus, switching to a six-hour workday increased the ...
For agencies, time is money. That’s why every service-based business needs a time-tracking tool. One that will help them understand not only where team time is being spent, but also identify which clients are money-makers, and which deals turned out to be complete, and utter budget-breakers.But choosing ...
One of the biggest misconceptions about time tracking is that it’s a way to A: spy on employees, and B: push employees to work faster and do more, in less time. The fact is, most businesses, to survive and remain competitive, need to know which jobs are bringing money in, and which ones are putting ...
Do you ever feel like there is never enough time to finish all your work? If your answer is “yes”, press 1!If we had a dollar every time someone pressed 1, we would probably be too busy counting our millions, but here we are. According to research, a staggering 82% of people don’t rely on a time ...