The ultimate 195 tips to boost your productivity, projects, and planning

Implementing all of these may not be relevant to you but going through it you will identify the TOP points you may want to implement right away to increase your productivity, your teams’ efficiency, and better manage your work, projects, and time.

HOW TO COMBAT THE HERMIT HABIT AS A REMOTE WORKER

When 9-5 project managers make the transition into remote working, most of them do so to bask in the flexibility of work hours, to reel in the freedom that wasn’t present in their day jobs. On taking these leaps into new terrain, these managers become too comfortable with being in their personal space that they often would have to force human contact. Despite the freedom that remote working offers, there is a dark cast lurking in the shadows, waiting to lead you into living like a hermit. Becoming too comfortable as a remote project manager can be detrimental to your health and social life.

CLIENT MANAGEMENT – INVOLVING CLIENTS IN PROJECTS

WHAT IS CLIENT MANAGEMENT?

HOW TO GET RID OF PROCRASTINATION WITH TEMPTATION BUNDLING

Procrastination is deferring tasks to a seemingly more convenient time, only that with procrastination, there is no convenient time; it is a measure of willpower. The fun fact about procrastination is that the time when you are supposed to be working but postponed the job, you are doing nothing productive, probably seeing a movie or playing video games. It is a preference for instant gratification over long-term projects.

HOW TO IMPROVE TEAM COLLABORATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

With the advent of technology, many teams are virtual, and that increases the need for effective collaboration. Since team members in a virtual setting often consist of many individuals in different time zones, the ability to collaborate effectively as a team is one of the necessary skills for project success.

BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY WITH SWEDISH COFFEE BREAK “FIKA”

 It is a Swedish culture that allows workers to take time off work to interact with one another. It is coffee, along with a sweet snack. But fika is beyond the meal, it is an attitude, a way of life. To the Swedes, fika is a ritual, something that has to be done. It is so common that project managers don’t question team members during the break. In fact, in Sweden, team members are allowed up to two fika breaks during working hours.

EFFECT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Digital transformation strategy is an outline of a sequence of actions aimed at the restructuring of products and services around digital capabilities.

AGILE TECHNIQUES TO HELP YOU DELIVER PROJECTS MORE EFFECTIVELY

WHAT IS AGILE?

The originators of the concept chose the term “agile” to represent the adaptive nature and response to change that was essential to their approach. Agile may have had its roots from the world of software development, but its ways of working are beneficial to industries outside of its origin.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY

Employee satisfaction can come from engagement; not all satisfied employees are engaged, though.