Making Time Management Work for You: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #10
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Adaginy
App recommendations: Habitica (also a website) and Forest. Habitica - list your chores and tasks and such, check them off, level up your avatar, defeat monsters. Forest - set a timer, plant a virtual tree, leave your phone alone (or only use whitelisted apps) or the tree dies.
As for stuff that isn't your job, though, gotta talk a bit about training your teammates: If you are always the one who does the thing even though it's -their- job, eventually it becomes -your- job, and they think that it's their job to hand you half-finished work. If they ASK -- -hey, we're swamped, can you do the thing- -- that's fine, that's acknowledging it's their job. But if they're handing you half-done work and expecting you to roll with it, Nope Nope Nope. Hand that back. -This isn't ready for me yet, please let me know when you've finished XYZ. -
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App recommendations: Habitica (also a website) and Forest. Habitica - list your chores and tasks and such, check them off, level up your avatar, defeat monsters. Forest - set a timer, plant a virtual tree, leave your phone alone (or only use whitelisted apps) or the tree dies.
As for stuff that isn't your job, though, gotta talk a bit about training your teammates: If you are always the one who does the thing even though it's -their- job, eventually it becomes -your- job, and they think that it's their job to hand you half-finished work. If they ASK -- -hey, we're swamped, can you do the thing- -- that's fine, that's acknowledging it's their job. But if they're handing you half-done work and expecting you to roll with it, Nope Nope Nope. Hand that back. -This isn't ready for me yet, please let me know when you've finished XYZ. -
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Julie
I always struggled with the advice to delegate. Early in my career, I was basically the bottom of the totem pole within my small nonprofit organization. Everyone delegated to me, but there was nobody for me to delegate to. Occasionally we had short-term volunteers, but most of the time, delegating to them involved so much training on our various systems that it was easier to do the thing myself. Years later, I'm finally in a position where I work at a University, and I just hired my first student worker to whom I can delegate. I know the time I invest in training her will be worthwhile because she's going to stick around long enough to get independent at her tasks. It's really great, but it's taken me a while to get here.
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I always struggled with the advice to delegate. Early in my career, I was basically the bottom of the totem pole within my small nonprofit organization. Everyone delegated to me, but there was nobody for me to delegate to. Occasionally we had short-term volunteers, but most of the time, delegating to them involved so much training on our various systems that it was easier to do the thing myself. Years later, I'm finally in a position where I work at a University, and I just hired my first student worker to whom I can delegate. I know the time I invest in training her will be worthwhile because she's going to stick around long enough to get independent at her tasks. It's really great, but it's taken me a while to get here.
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Matt
I like the flexible and non judgmental approach to these videos. Everything I have been told by other sources always acts like one way of doing things is the only way of doing it, which makes things stressful and exhausting. This -find your style and make it work for you- is a breath of fresh air. I don't want to be a type A personality workaholic that wakes up at 4: 00am and is going at full speed 18 hours per day. That is what I have always been told is the key to success and now I know why it never worked for me.
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I like the flexible and non judgmental approach to these videos. Everything I have been told by other sources always acts like one way of doing things is the only way of doing it, which makes things stressful and exhausting. This -find your style and make it work for you- is a breath of fresh air. I don't want to be a type A personality workaholic that wakes up at 4: 00am and is going at full speed 18 hours per day. That is what I have always been told is the key to success and now I know why it never worked for me.
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Harrison
Last semester I thought my problem was me not having good enough time management.
Turns out I was way over stretching myself too thin.
For about 2 months straight I on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I went to bed at 2am that night and got up at 6am.
I lived on energy drinks.
The thought of having one now kind of grosses me out.
(It's easier to admit to yourself and on your ego that you aren't stretched too thin, instead you simply aren't managing your time effectively enough)
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Last semester I thought my problem was me not having good enough time management.
Turns out I was way over stretching myself too thin.
For about 2 months straight I on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I went to bed at 2am that night and got up at 6am.
I lived on energy drinks.
The thought of having one now kind of grosses me out.
(It's easier to admit to yourself and on your ego that you aren't stretched too thin, instead you simply aren't managing your time effectively enough)
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My-li
Thanks for the video! I want to believe that there is nothing wrong with getting up at 10 and working until 3 but is it true? I think that brain activity and functionality is much better in the morning and early afternoon and later, of course, you can do stuff but is much less efficient. Is it true or just my belief?
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Thanks for the video! I want to believe that there is nothing wrong with getting up at 10 and working until 3 but is it true? I think that brain activity and functionality is much better in the morning and early afternoon and later, of course, you can do stuff but is much less efficient. Is it true or just my belief?
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Froehlig
Yay for sleep! It's about time we pushed back on people who aren't clued in to the self-abuse sleep deprivation is. It's not a lack of discipline to sleep long enough in the morning if you're productive or health-driven in the evenings.
And let's abolish that bi-annual time change, shall we?
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Yay for sleep! It's about time we pushed back on people who aren't clued in to the self-abuse sleep deprivation is. It's not a lack of discipline to sleep long enough in the morning if you're productive or health-driven in the evenings.
And let's abolish that bi-annual time change, shall we?
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emily
Hye so this was super awesome and really helpful! I am in my last semester in college, with CAP stones and a million other projects due so thanks for the help. Keep up the good work!
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Hye so this was super awesome and really helpful! I am in my last semester in college, with CAP stones and a million other projects due so thanks for the help. Keep up the good work!
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Froehlig
I have to be on my game for email, and even conversations. I get misinterpreted pretty regularly. That's super problematic.
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I have to be on my game for email, and even conversations. I get misinterpreted pretty regularly. That's super problematic.
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jonjuul
i know that this is crash course and it is supposed to be fast but I just love the calm way in which she speaks. Great vid!
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i know that this is crash course and it is supposed to be fast but I just love the calm way in which she speaks. Great vid!
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Kevin
I'll disagree about multi tasking being a myth. It's real. You just have to know how many things you can juggle efficiently.
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I'll disagree about multi tasking being a myth. It's real. You just have to know how many things you can juggle efficiently.
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