
Paula Rizzo, Media Consultant, Author, Speaker 10. If you're tempted to check your email every few minutes I recommend turning it off. "The reason email overwhelms us is because we let it run us and not the other way around. Not only that, what comes into our email inbox overnight can often affect what we do the next day, so in my view it's vital to look at email first thing.” - Siimon Reynolds, author of WIN FAST 9. It’s true some of our most important opportunities arrive in our email inbox.

"I don't believe in the common theory that we should not do email first thing in the work day. Michelle McQuaid, Founder of The Wellbeing Lab 8. This reduces the numbers of emails we receive each day considerably!” - Dr. As part of a global virtual team one of the ways we've conquered emails over the years is to move a lot of our day to day conversations to the Slack app and all our work task communications to the Trello App. “My favorite email app is Gmail as It allows me to easily access and manage my emails from anywhere. I also purchased an inexpensive timer to sit next to my computer, and use this as a visual reminder to continue focusing on a particular task-and ignore those pesky Slack and Outlook notifications-for a set amount of time.” - Liz Cies is Vice President of PR at Idea Grove, a B2B tech PR and marketing agency 7. This provided some extra awareness throughout the day of how I was spending my time and what I accomplished, while also helping me to focus on the task at hand. “To combat the feeling of each day blending into the next during the recent stay at home order, I started logging my day in greater detail using the Bullet Journal’s rapid logging method. Stop aiming for perfection and aim for progress.” - Rodrigo Garduño, founder of 54D But this is the perfect time to learn about resilience. We are all going through very difficult and stressful times, and it's easy to lose focus and motivation.
#Tips to stay productive professional
"My experience as a professional athlete has taught me that discipline is the most important component when looking to accomplish anything in life. Think through how your company can create as much of that for your people as possible.” - Shane Metcalf, Chief Culture Officer and co-founder 15Five 4.

We've collectively descended Maslow's hierarchy down to safety and security being the number one priorities in most people’s lives. “Now that some of the dust has settled from an unimaginably turbulent first half the year and people are semi-settled into working from home, the best thing that companies can do to keep teams motivated and engaged is to provide as much certainty as they can in a massively uncertain world.
