Entries by Anja Bosiok

Is Staff Augmentation Right for Your Business?

Companies often need to hire and maintain a pool of top talents for specific projects. This necessity is usually resource-intensive and may result in significant long-term high costs. Managed services and traditional outsourcing procedures also come with higher risks. With staff augmentation, companies can quickly staff up, especially during critical projects. The need to fill […]

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Batch Work: How to Reduce Stress and Achieve Goals With the Batching Technique

Being productive and doing great work is only half the battle. If you’re like most people, your job is probably also filled with stressors: tight deadlines, difficult customers, unending piles of paperwork, and more. But you can batch work to deal with that problem effectively. We all deal with work stress to varying degrees at […]

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Do I Need a Resource Planner? Answer: Yes!

Whether a business is starting or looking to expand, it can be difficult to anticipate all the resources the company will need. Even if the organization is clear about what it wants and how it intends to achieve it, it’s a challenge fitting all the pieces together and forecasting for the future. This is where […]

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9 Ways to Master an Ideal Workload Balance

Do you have the ideal workload balance? Few of us do which speaks to a general yet overwhelming trend for many employees: too much work, not enough balance. A recent study by Deloitte found that 78% of American workers feel burned out at the workplace. Another 77% said they had quit their jobs because of […]

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Agenda Item Planning for Maximum Efficiency

A meeting without proper agenda item planning is a breeding ground room for disorganized and unstructured discussion and off-topic conversation. Unplanned meeting agendas mean that attendees are unprepared and confused about what the meeting will entail. This leads to unclear meeting goals and we can all agree that this leads to wasted time, energy and […]

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Create Good Work Plan For Maximum Productivity

Having a good work plan is essential to achieving desired outcomes. Many organizations struggle with creating work plans because they often follow a top-down approach where management creates the plan first, then assigns it to team leads, who in turn assign it to team members. This kind of structure doesn’t allow for enough flexibility and […]

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A Comprehensive Guide to Monthly Planning

We are all aware that being busy does not equate to being productive. With monthly planning, however, you can go from being flat-out busy to efficiently on top of tasks. Think of growing a company like climbing Mount Everest. You can’t start this journey without figuring out how you will do it. But many companies […]

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How to Use Franklin Time Management Effectively

There’s a high cost of having too much time on your hands, which leads to its unproductive usage and a loss of focus. But there’s a remedy: Franklin Time Management. Today, everyone is busy — so busy, in fact, that we feel overworked, stressed out, and exhausted all at once. So how can you be […]

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The Secrets of a Great Personnel Plan

Investing in human resources (HR) is a key element of healthy personnel planning and strategy. A hallmark of effective leadership is efficient HR which means hiring employees in a cost-effective manner and mostly when needed. Your business plan should always include an informative and up-to-date personnel plan section to provide direction for the company and […]

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How to Plan Time and Be More Productive

Having a busy work life is overwhelming for many people. There is so much to do, and not enough time in the day to get it all done. How do you balance your personal life, work responsibilities, and still make time for yourself? You plan time. Planning your time can seem like an impossible task, […]

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