Working From Home

Amanda Mull muses on the benefits and liabilities of working from home and suggests how valued employees can win limited self-determination in their schedules.

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A Writing Schedule

Rebecca Schuman counsels instructors about scheduling their writing responsibilities. She says that for most young instructors, scheduling short, focused bursts is better than dedicating an hour or more to a writing project.

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Tips for Grading

Kevin Gannon suggests ways to conduct grading which make it less onerous.

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Organizing Your Life

J. R. Raphael recommends Android apps for personal organization .

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Calendar Usage

Srinivas Rao sugests that consistently recording upcoming events in a calendar is better than creating daily to-do lists.

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Prediction and Mental Health

Martin Seligman and John Terney suggests that "We aren't Built to Live in the Moment ."

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End of Day Productivity

Larry Alton suggests tasks that allow you to productively run out the clock at the end of each workday:

Monday

Organize your email account.

Tuesday

Plan your next big project.

Wednesday

Curate your web presence.

Thursday

Declutter your desk.

Friday

Schedule the next week's activities.

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Maintain a Calendar

Matt Alderton suggests that scheduling your time on a calendar is key to time management .

In my own experience, linking my phone calendar and work calendar were excellent decisions, as now I rarely miss appointments.

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Tracking Work in Progress

Erin Marie Furtak explains how she catagorizes and tracks items in her professional writing process . Her systems allows her to work on multiple papers at one time.

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Email Response Robot

Katherine Noyes shares her experience with an email response robot developed by X.AI. It primarly contacts humans to book meeting.

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Small Wins

Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer discuss the power of striving for incremental success . Consistent "small wins" maintain motivation much better than a project without repeated positive feedback.

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Saying "No" to Appointments

Brian Croxall emphasizes that there are times when no is the appropriate answer.

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Effectiveness

According to Barbara Bartlein "Workers Average 3 Productive Days Per Week ." Procrastination and communication issues are the biggest time wasters, according to her statistics.

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