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Multitasking: You’re Less Productive Than You Think

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How good are you at multitasking? For the rest of us, our brains just weren’t meant to multitask well. Instead, multitasking stresses us out, often making us feel mentally exhausted or even experience an IQ drop similar to the slump losing a night of sleep can cause, a group of Stanford researchers found. All the time.

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Multitasking: You’re Less Productive Than You Think

Insperity

How good are you at multitasking? For the rest of us, our brains just weren’t meant to multitask well. Instead, multitasking stresses us out, often making us feel mentally exhausted or even experience an IQ drop similar to the slump losing a night of sleep can cause, a group of Stanford researchers found. All the time.

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Information overload: How to manage it

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You really do need to sort out the information coming your way, and in sorting and prioritizing you will find your deliverance. Prioritize tasks, and before you begin each task, collect your thoughts. In short order, you want to yell, “Stop!” But you can’t. They, too, are inundated with information.

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8 must-have leadership traits for current and future leaders

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Leaders have a lot of responsibilities on their plate and they often assume they can multitask successfully in a remote environment. Do they make it a regular practice to schedule time for certain tasks, or are they always trying to multitask? Prioritizing quality and results over time spent in the office.

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10 quick tips for surviving the busy season at work

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Plan ahead and prioritize work with clients as much as possible to avoid last minute demands and rushed projects. Create a prioritized plan. Take 20 minutes at the beginning of the week to prioritize your goals. Multitasking on projects simultaneously is not productive. It’s not you, it’s me.

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7 Mental Techniques to Improve Your Time Management

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Stop multitasking. There are a lot of people who feel as if they are really good at multitasking, but very few of us actually are. By learning how to prioritize , you’ll be able to get much more done than if you were multitasking.

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4 Reasons a Military Veteran Might Be Your Best Hire

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What you end up with are leaders who respect authority and can multitask – receiving multiple orders from various people, being able to prioritize and delegate as required. This could be five to 10 people that they’re responsible for when they take a project lead or simply because they’re the highest-ranking soldier at the time.