From the course: Creating the Environment for Productive Virtual Teams
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Design your day for substantive work by avoiding task switching and distractions
From the course: Creating the Environment for Productive Virtual Teams
Design your day for substantive work by avoiding task switching and distractions
- Why is it that one day you're so much more productive than the other? What's the difference? Or more importantly, what's the secret? Well, the bad news is that there is no magic bullet for immersive work, but we do know a few things from neuroscience and the brain which can help us to understand why we're sometimes able to focus better. And this can lead us to strategies to design your day, improving your ability to work immersively, even when working virtually. Your ability to focus and immerse yourself in work can be thwarted by switching between multiple tasks. In other words multitasking, in close succession, especially if you do so before you've properly finished a task. You might have been seduced into thinking that there's a good way to operate, but there is a hidden cost. You might have even encouraged your team to just attend to a particular matter and then return to their bigger projects. But these hidden costs, when added up over time, start to really matter. Despite…
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