by Liane Davey | Jan 24, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness, Video Library
I started to hear people talking about this idea of cognitive flexibility. Whew! Fancy pants. What the heck is cognitive flexibility? Why does it matter?! And how do we make it better if it’s so important? Cognitive flexibility is your brain’s...
by Liane Davey | Jan 19, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
Multitasking is making us less efficient, reducing the quality and creativity of our work, and stressing us out. And yet, it’s the norm rather than the exception, particularly in meetings. If you’re chairing a meeting and want to keep participants’ eyes on the prize,...
by Liane Davey | Jan 12, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
In my previous post, I came to terms with the fact that 95% of us can’t multitask (hard blow). Instead, what we call multitasking is just rapidly toggling between tasks. That switching is costly for attention, quality, creativity, and energy. That’s why a chorus of...
by Liane Davey | Jan 10, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness, Video Library
Are you a multitasker? You’re probably not. Research says only about 2.5% of the population can truly multitask on anything more than walking and chewing gum. What you are is a task-switcher. Task-switching is when we interrupt one task to attend to...
by Liane Davey | Jan 7, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
Poster 5 Ways to Say No Do you love the idea of saying “no” but struggle with getting the word out of your mouth without upsetting someone, triggering an argument, or being labeled as a poor team player? Here are some tips that will make it easier for you to enforce...
by Liane Davey | Dec 2, 2024 | Personal Effectiveness, Video Library
When it comes to time management, you can think about it in big long-term chunks, or you can think about a very simple question, “How am I going to plan my day?” And planning your day well is essential to getting good at time management. Let’s...
