Prioritization Archives - Motivationeer

04 May

ZOOM S2 Session 05 – How to Minimize 12-Hour Workdays

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In Christian Entrepreneur, Earning Potential, Organization, Planning, Premium Content, Prioritization, Video, ZOOM Sessions

It's great to be ambitious and hard working. What's not as great is when we get caught in the cycle of 12-hour days. We often justify the work by saying to ourselves, "I have to do this just to keep afloat." We eventually make it a habit of working harder...

02 Sep

ZOOM Session 022 – How Activity-Stacking Saves Time by Doubling Output

This is not a coaching session on multi-tasking. REPEAT: This is not about multi-tasking. Multi-tasking is impossible and worst and horribly inefficient at best. This is about training your brain to use the same time period to accomplish two tasks with no extra effort. When we start looking for how...

02 Sep

ZOOM Session 015 – Waiting Tables: How to Minimize Duties to Maximize Impact

By Motivationeer
In Earning Potential, Emotional Intelligence, Jesus, Leadership, Performance Management, Premium Content, Prioritization, Strategy, Success, Video, ZOOM Sessions

Getting ahead in this competitive marketplace means knowing when we aren't adding value. To make the biggest impact, it's important to recognize when we're just waiting tables. For Christians who believe in servant leadership, this goes against our training. After all, aren't we supposed to be willing to do even...

09 Jul

Stop Using the Eisenhower Decision Matrix – Use This Instead

By Motivationeer
In Decision Matrix, Efficiency, Organization, Prioritization, Stress Management

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, who can understand it?” – Jeremiah 17:9 “Have you recently had the feeling there is more to do than you could achieve in a day, a week or even a month?” This is the intro question for...

07 Jul

Tools – Life Wheel Worksheet

By Motivationeer
In Christian Life Coach, Executive Toolkit, Goal Setting, Personal Growth, Planning, Premium Content, Prioritization, Success, Time Management

The Life Wheel worksheet is another simple but effective self-assessment along the eight dimensions of maintaining a balanced life, specifically in the framework of balancing with a professional career. Just as a wheel is smooth when balanced, this tool allows you to better understand where the bumps occur in...

06 Jul

Masterfully Managing Scope Creep

By Motivationeer
In Planning, Premium Content, Prioritization, Seven Wastes

Don’t you hate it when your department executive, or perhaps your customer, keeps adding more action items to an existing project while expecting you to complete it in the same time frame? Well, you can take action to not only manage this, but prevent it. In this...

04 Jul

Mastering Complex Tasks

By Motivationeer
In Anxiety, Organization, Premium Content, Prioritization, Stress Management

Life is filled with tasks, from the bygone days of doing chores at home to rooms of the company where you work today. We all have complex tasks that require planning and focused intention. For many of us this is not an enjoyable process. In fact, it's downright draining....

03 Jul

Performance Management & Work Prioritization

By Motivationeer
In Performance Management, Premium Content, Prioritization

Having a process for managing your workload and overall achievement of performance objectives is crucial. This video discusses one such method, using a prioritization matrix based on Level of Effort and Impact. When we make the process practical, our minds are freed up to achieve all new...

24 Jun

List it or Lose It – Part 1

By Motivationeer
In Prioritization, Stress Management, Time Management

How many of these statements apply to you in the last two weeks? I have felt overwhelmed at the sheer volume of my work I missed (or nearly missed) an important deadline I completely forgot to fill in the blank Many potentially important emails sit in my Inbox, unread

24 Jun

List It or Lose It – Part 2

By Motivationeer
In Prioritization, Stress Management, Time Management

The Power of a To Do List In the prior post, we covered the Zeigarnik Effect and how the brain naturally wants to complete tasks once started. The age-old To Do List (TDL) becomes a powerful tool to manage stress and increase work efficiency. This week we will cover...