Ever felt that overwhelming sense that there’s just not enough time to do your job? And that everything is suddenly urgent?How did we get here and how can we stop the urgent work loop?Tips from Dermot Crowley:Six dials you can tweak to manage urgency: Time, Quality, Scope, Resources, Budget, and Risk.How to plan ahead to avoid urgency: <ul><li>Daily: 10 minutes each workday morning to get focused</li><li>Weekly: 45 minutes once per week to get organised for the coming week</li><li>Monthly: 1 hour at the start of each month to step back and get some perspective</li></ul>

Ever felt that overwhelming sense that there’s just not enough time to do your job? And that everything is suddenly urgent? How did we get here and how can we stop the urgent work loop? Tips from Dermot Crowley: Six dials you can tweak to manage urgency: Time, Quality, Scope, Resources, Budget, and Risk. How to plan ahead to avoid urgency: Daily: 10 minutes each workday morning to get focusedWeekly: 45 minutes once per week to get organised for the coming weekMonthly: 1 hour at the start of each month to step back and get some perspective

Ever felt that overwhelming sense that there’s just not enough time to do your job? And that everything is suddenly urgent?How did we get here and how can we stop the urgent work loop?Tips from Dermot Crowley:Six dials you can tweak to manage urgency: Time, Quality, Scope, Resources, Budget, and Risk.How to plan ahead to avoid urgency:&nbsp;<ul><li>Daily: 10 minutes each workday morning to get focused</li><li>Weekly: 45 minutes once per week to get organised for the coming week</li><li>Monthly: 1 hour at the start of each month to step back and get some perspective</li></ul>

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You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better? Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia. Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work. We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better?&nbsp;Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia.

Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work.
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We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in&nbsp;a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

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