If you’re like the average knowledge worker, you check email and IM every 6 minutes. An alarming 40.1% of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools, the dangers of which are well established. And you use 56 different apps and websites per day, switching between them nearly 300 times.
Can anyone say “digital work crisis”?
The shift to digital work has been dramatic and swift.
For instance, the Brookings Institute found that since 2002, the share of jobs in high digital skills occupations grew from 5% to 23% while the share of jobs in low digital skills occupations plummeted from 56% to 30%. It’s a trend that will
By Shelbi Gomez | Senior Content Manager at Workfront
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You’ve probably seen the hashtag all over Instagram: #relationshipgoals #squadgoals #fitgoals, or simply #goals. It’s a shortcut way to say, “I want a relationship like that, a group of friends like that, a body like that, a work
The importance of quality in business cannot be overstated. In his book, Done Right, Workfront CEO Alex Shootman uses the history of the American car industry as an example. “In the 1970s and 1980s, the big American automakers started to lose global and domestic market share to their Japanese
By Shelbi Gomez, Senior Communications Manager at Workfront
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Project management best practices have been quietly serving us well for more than a century, beginning with Henry Gantt’s famous chart and Henri Fayol’s five management functions. And while the foundational principles remain perfectly
By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront
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“If you lead any type of work,” Workfront CEO Alex Shootman writes in his book Done Right, “you’re accountable to motivate others to do that work well.”
To help readers know how to motivate others, Alex outlines three essential
The word “risk” has a complicated reputation. To some, it is a terrifying thing to be avoided. To others, it’s an exciting motivator. To project managers, it’s an inevitable part of the process that should be expected and planned for.
Project risk refers to any unplanned event that pops up
By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront
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Some days nothing seems more natural than working in front of a computer screen. If you’re like me, you and almost everyone you know does it, and few of us give it a second thought. It’s just the way life is.
And yet as recently as
By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Workfront
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“The culture of most organizations is that every task needs 100 percent effort,” writes Workfront CEO Alex Shootman in his new book, Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Top Leaders Get Stuff Done. “Wrong. Every task needs 100
By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications
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“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big successes,” wrote David J. Schwartz, author of The Magic of Thinking Big, published in 1959.
This is a nice thought that’s as true today as it was 60
By Alex Shootman | CEO at Workfront
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“Lead like your children are watching.”
It’s a simple but powerful thought that shifts a leader’s posture from privilege to responsibility — an awareness that how you talk, walk, ask questions, praise, criticize and spend your time has a
By Alex Shootman | CEO at Workfront
Note: This post pulls from Done Right, a leadership book from Workfront CEO Alex Shootman.
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One of the fastest ways to throw away money in a business is to communicate poorly. Distractions and diversions caused by the wrong words, bad timing, or ineffective
In today’s fast-paced, modern workplace, work is increasingly done and managed digitally, and communication gets spread across multiple mediums. In the midst of all this chaos, it is imperative to have an effective project scope management plan in place.
Project scope refers to the total amount of
