The topic of too many, too inefficient meetings is definitely not a new one. But when we agreed on our most important team values in my current project recently, the uncontested number one value was efficient meetings. Our team felt that we have too many meetings with too many participants and too little remaining time…
Context switches are expensive for human brains and even though many managers (other people too, but managers definitely) have convinced themselves that they can easily handle a multitude of tasks at the same time (e.g. take a second call and answer emails while in a meeting) the truth is they will underperform at all of…
Managers often get a lot of meeting invitations and I am no exception. And when it comes to meetings with many busy participants they sometimes tend to be scheduled very early in the morning, very late in the evening, during lunch breaks or on Fridays. So if you don’t enforce any rules on your calendar,…
Writing a thesis is a big undertaking that takes alot of time, motivation and self-organization to complete. Dedicated supervisors can help accomplish that, but ultimately it is up to the author of the thesis to get it done. In this post, I want to share experiences how to help the students from my point of…
Different employees have a different level of bravery to make decisions on their own. Sometimes, they are missing required context, they are uncertain whether they are allowed to decide something or they don’t want to be held responsible for the consequences of a decision. This is when they turn to their manager and ask them…