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Managing remote teams: 9 tips to handle difficult conversations over distances

Insperity

Maintain eye contact and don’t multitask on other projects. On the other hand, you can confirm whether the performance or behavior problem stems from a lack of knowledge or training, or confusion about expectations. Additional training or distance learning is an option. Appear engaged. Be prepared. Be sensitive to privacy.

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Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why

Work Life

Multitasking can take a mental toll, and I feel like I need to be especially careful about my nervous system and brain health—aka protect my attention span—as I’m switching between so many tasks in a day. With this information, entrepreneurs can train their brains to trigger more productive and focused responses.

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Saying No to More: Why Giving Your Brain Space to Wander Improves Your Productivity

Success

Construct: Make something new in your mind. The idea that you can be lost in thought, staring out of a window—without frantically scribbling notes—and still be having important breakthroughs is foreign in our go-go-go multitasking professional climate. For example, when you’re driving or on the train.

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

Hewlett-Packard, according to Druskat and Wolff, likes to have each of their employees work at cross-training. Discourage multitasking: The multitasking technique does not work. Instead, use it constructively so that your team can solve a problem together and figure out how to way to address the problem.

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Ultimate guide to being a good boss

Work Life

Another important aspect of communication is feedback, which should be shared early, often, and constructively. Good bosses provide feedback that is constructive, focused, and specific. This means ruthlessly eliminating low priorities, distractions, and multitasking. Celebrate the wins!

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5 signs you’ve gone from high-achiever to overachiever at work

Work Life

My own burnout lasted for years and started when I collapsed on the floor of the gym that I was training (too hard) in. Filing one-liner inspiration notes away satisfies your need to multitask, but doesn’t allow you to be pulled fully away from what you’re already working on.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

The plot spans the entire, infinite universe, on a timescale spanning well before the construction of planet Earth to moments after the heat death of the universe. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. The Now Habit by Neil Fiore.