The Creativity & Productivity Blog
The Creativity & Productivity Blog
Your success as a business consultant, among other things, hinges on the level of collaboration you achieve with clients. Getting your team in lockstep with your client, and their various stakeholders, is crucial for the success of any project or engagement. “When […]
Read article "Consultants: The Collaboration Tools You Use Affect Stakeholder Engagement"
You might not think that checklists have a role in the workplace. Often used for simple tasks like creating a grocery list or packing for a vacation, checklists aren’t often thought of as a tool for increasing productivity and efficiency at work. […]
As we start a new year and—this year—a new decade, many people are thinking ahead, planning for what they hope to achieve in the year to come. Maybe 2020 will be the year when you finally take that overseas trip you’ve been […]
Read article "Using MeisterTask for Personal Goals and Resolutions"
GTD is a productivity technique developed by David Allen and described in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. It’s a methodology that encourages people to get all of their to-dos on a central list and process those to-dos […]
Read article "How to Create the Perfect GTD Workflow with MeisterTask"
Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban: these terms are all used to describe very similar project management approaches, and adding to the confusion, they’re often used interchangeably. People refer to Scrum ceremonies as Agile ceremonies, use Kanban boards for Scrum. If you’re new to […]
Read article "Kanban vs. Scrum: Choosing the Right Approach for Your Team"
If you’re looking to conduct more effective client presentations, it’s time to ditch those bland PowerPoint slides in favor of a more engaging presentation format: digital mind maps. Mind maps help you present information in a format that’s both engaging and easy […]
Read article "How to Deliver Effective Client Presentations with Mind Maps"
A recent study of 19 million meetings found that workers in the U.S. spend an average of two hours a week in pointless meetings. And while that doesn’t sound like a lot, the exponential cost of two hours per person per week […]
Read article "10 Meeting Rules to Host Productive and Effective Meetings"
Whether you’re an influencer with a personal blog you write and manage all on your own or a content marketer trying to oversee contributions to your company blog from several staff writers and freelancers, you need a blog mind map. A blog […]
Read article "9 Wildly Useful Blog Mind Map Examples for Content Marketers"
To-do lists are a great way to keep track of outstanding tasks, but they can be poor motivators. They often end up too long, too short, too vague, too confusing, overcommitted, unwieldy, stale and forgotten, or even too meticulously planned. It doesn’t […]
Read article "7 Ways to Write a Better To-Do List and Get More Done"
The amount of content you’re presented with in college can be quite overwhelming, which is why many college students realize that the note-taking and learning systems they used during high school—if they had systems at all—are ineffective in college. Mind mapping in […]
Read article "Mind Mapping in College: Tips, Tools, and Examples"
