During our book club event today @peter-domican mentioned a survey, created by PWC, that collects responses from 5,000 CEOs around the world that were asked about their agenda to respond to new threats, transform their operating model and create a more sustainable future, and how climate change didn’t seem to be amongst the top…Read More
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Thanks @peter-domican. Added to my growing reading list. Will have to take a holiday to catch up!
How to share slides as a virtual background in Zoom:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360046912351-Sharing-slides-as-a-Virtual-Background
Kudos to @traceyrobperera for presenting the show!
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It was great to explore some technical ways to win! Looking forward to exploring more ways to help our community next week.
Thank you for the conversation sharing ideas, insights, encouragement and sharing slides on a virtual backgrounds. No excuse now to record my virtual content. Will test it out on TPC friends soon. Thank you
Following on @laura-thomastpc‘s question about #productivity software tools, I’d like to share an experiment I did some time ago to, amongst other reasons, increase my performance, in case someone finds it interesting.
My hypothesis was that, although I thought I was making a good use of my time overall, by understanding how was I exactly…Read More
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Understand if it’s private, but I would love to know where the over and under-investing was occurring!! I might have to try this myself. Maybe we could run it as a TPC community challenge one week!
Good question, an interesting one is that I was over-investing in commute and under-investing in sports, so one of the changes I made was to expand the radious of my cycling area; reducing my commute investment in the same amount it increased my investment in sports.
Another surpsing one was shopping, which consumed just 0.04% of my time. This…Read More
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This sounds like a great experiment! The one I got back to again and again is the 80:20 principle – it’s a book that a previous manager gave to me, and although I can go off target, it is a good way to reassess!
As portfolio professionals sometimes we might feel the need to multitask in order to “increase” our performance and produce more work. This, however, can become a thread to our productivity due to the switching costs it involves for mind and brain.
This article published by the American Psychological Association reviews related research to…Read More
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My most productive time is early morning when there are no calls or emails coming in, and I ‘batch process’ tasks for efficiency
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Opened to read later – in some attempt not to multi-task as much
– love learning more about improving productivity! 
Interesting post @jesus-iniesta, thanks for sharing. I think there are times where multi-tasking can increase my productivity and times where my work quality suffers. This week I learned about diffused vs focussed thinking thanks to @tillerp and I think this has helped me understand when I am best to just step away and re focus so that I can…Read More
A very thought provoking article @jesus-iniesta and this carries on from the session that I ran for the team his week and that @fiona-chorlton-voong was referencing. Interestingly, the next module in my series of “Learning how to Learn” topics squarely tackles this area as I discuss and reveal the distractions that can cost us up to 23 minutes in…Read More
Ever wondered how listening to music whilst working affects productivity? Found a really interesting article about the topic: https://elemental.medium.com/do-productivity-playlists-actually-work-6d362bd23bf7
TL;DR:
– Maria A.G. Witek, a professor in the Department of Music at Birmingham University: “A lot of research seems to suggest that i…Read More
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I used to have background music when working but now prefer silence – for intense concentration. My wife says I look scary when I am in intense concentration mode ….
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I believe her!
More often than not I find that I also prefer silence (for which I use ANC headphones), but there are occasions when I feel listening to music boosts my productivity. Although I haven’t found what pattern works best for me, I feel it depends on my mood, the type of music and, more importantly, the type of work that I’m doing.
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I agree with both your points here @ben-legg and @jesus-iniesta, when I need to do deep work – I prefer silence but when I’m doing more creative work, I like to play a home spa playlist – it relaxes me 😬
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Home Spa – very @fiona-chorlton-voong
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I’m kind of the opposite – when I’m doing creative things I often need silence, repetitive tasks/non-content tasks I’ll have an audio book or a film in the background, but when I need to get my head into a project I find music that’s familiar helpful but tends to be instrumental – my current go to is Einaudi’s Elements album.
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Love Ludovico’s work!
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Ooh so interesting. I really need music. I use classical easy listening for focus stuff and then good stuff I like for admin easy stuff. But I associate it with more focus than silence now. I also sleep to white noise every night – blast the sea waves into my ears!!
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So interesting!
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Tried to upload the slide from my MBA lecture but can’t get enough resolution for you to be able to read it. I have the data from 2016. 2019, 2020, 2021, and the ‘top ten threats’ on CEOs’ minds change considerably. What CEOs tend to focus on are high probability high impact threats within the strategic planning window. Things like climate change…Read More