Plus, how to find truth and value in even the harshest feedback.
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Hi John,
Is balance a myth? Something reserved for Zen masters? Today’s Q&A offers five simple tips that can improve your productivity and peace of mind.
And download our ebook on feedback. We’ve spent decades teaching people how to speak up with truth and tact, now we shine a light on how to respond when someone shares their truth but lacks tact.
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| | | | 5 Tips to Better Balance Your Workload | | by Justin Hale
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| | Each day I plan to complete three major tasks, three thirty-minute tasks, and a few five- to ten-minute tasks. I can squeeze in some five- to ten-minute tasks in between my major tasks, but now my thirty-minute tasks have piled up because they never make it to the top of my list. What should I do?
Signed,
Unbalanced
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| | | | This is only a problem if the work you decided to do is less important than the work you postponed or neglected. If that’s the case, then we need to discuss how you got sucked into working on less important stuff. But if you did the more important work, then you shouldn’t be too stressed. Even well-balanced productive people have to-dos they are NOT doing at any given moment. The key is to feel good about those to-dos that aren’t getting done.
For example, as I write this article, I estimate I have ninety to one hundred to-dos I am NOT doing. And I feel totally fine, totally present. Why? Because I know exactly what those to-dos are, I have them inventoried, and I’ve deliberately deemed them less important than writing this response to you.
Here are some things you can do to achieve this feeling yourself.
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| | | | | | EBOOK | | Feedsmacked: Crucial Skills to Receive Tough Feedback | | Based on the popular presentation by Crucial Conversations coauthor Joseph Grenny, this ebook will help you learn how to process and accept feedback from others, no matter how well it’s delivered. | | | |
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| | | | Oct 2–6 | | Crucial Conversations® for Mastering Dialogue | | Join us live online and learn how to:
Resolve conflict. Speak your mind truthfully and tactfully. Reach alignment when stakes are high and opinions vary. Navigate the most important interactions at home and work. | | | |
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| | | | | | We tend to believe that attaining power requires force, deception, manipulation, and coercion. Indeed, we might even assume that positions of power demand this kind of conduct—that to run smoothly, society needs leaders who are willing and able to use power this way. As seductive as these notions are, they are dead wrong. Instead, a new science of power has revealed that power is wielded most effectively when it’s used responsibly by people who are attuned to and engaged with the needs and interests of others. | | | | | |
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