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What Is ‘Bare Minimum Monday’ and Will It Work for You?

Success

You do release the pressure to be productive on Monday, and instead focus on planning the week, taking care of as many admin tasks as you can to set your mind free for the mid-week sprint.” Rather than dive right into back-to-back meetings at the start of the week, we saw the opportunity to schedule sacred time for everyone,” she says.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

Success

All things being equal, I’d whisk us all to the Caribbean tomorrow if we could, but since I’m here, sprinting from indoor haven to indoor haven, I should make the best of it, focusing on the good in the cold, the way it blankets both me and all my friends and family. I even like scarves. Lord, that was hard.

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9 Step Process To Manage Your Remote Team

Office Dynamics

However, managing a remote team requires a framework that needs to allow for all team members across different time zones to collaborate effectively. We also use time-tracking software to better understand where most of our time is being spent on. One thing that has been a real game changer for us is weekly sprints.