AgileWorkLand

Work place anxiety is a common problem. There are just times that we feel really worried, about not delivering what we are supposed to deliver, about failing the expectations of others, or about breaking the relationships that are hardly built. The struggle is on a daily basis. What we can do about it? Of course, if you are good at controlling or channeling your worries, you wouldn’t be worrying about your work at home. But what if you can’t sleep at night? Are there ways that can help to keep the anxiety level under control so that you can still go to work in good spirits? Good news is yes. Here are a few practices that we think may be useful. 1. Make a rule to switch to non-work mode after leaving the office. This may sound natural to you, but not to everyone. There are those of us who can still think a lot about what happened at office, at dinner, during shower, or before sleep. It’s just not helpful to keep thinking about it. We need to give us a break. So make a rule...

One of the reasons why a lot of us change jobs frequently is simply because our managers start to take us for granted if we stay too long. You work hard, but you may be still doing the same job for many years without getting a raise or the recognition that you deserve.  It's a common issue that the good soldiers don't complain and thus are not heard at the workplace. This culture is detrimental to the employee motivation and the organizational efficiency. If the dedicated employees don't get enough recognition, they may lose hope and look for other opportunities. For the employees, the cost of leaving a place where they have dedicated a lot of efforts is very high. For the employers, it's also very costly to lose these dedicated employees. Of course, organizationally, there are certainly a lot of things that can be improved both in terms of culture as well as reward & recognition mechanisms. Today, we would like to just focus on a few ways for employees to pre...

Have you seen some people who are super fast and efficient at work that they can finish in 5 mins something that would take you ages? Have you ever wondered how they did it? Here are four tips that would help you to be more efficient at work.  First, preview the work that are going to come, and prepare for it. A lot of our routine activities are predictable. We know that we need to prepare a budget at a certain point of the year. We know that we need to do an analysis of the past quarter or past month performance. So why not create a template , or even better, automated template so that next time it will save you a lot of trouble.  Second, concentrate on finishing one thing at a time . By “at a time”, I mean finish one thing after another, instead of switching from one thing to another. The reason is that every time you switch to another piece of work, you need a “transition” time to get into it. Imagine you are writing an email, and you received an email notificat...

Do you often find yourself with an 8-hour day job which only requires 2 hours to finish? What do you do with the downtime - 75% of your work time? You spent it here and there, looking at things on the Internet that you couldn't even tell afterwards? You tried different ways to kill time but still bo? You are not alone. Having a job that couldn't live up to our potential is one of the worst things that can happen for our motivation at work. We would feel so frustrated. We are not committed any more to what we are doing. We don't feel that we are improving or making progress as we stop to be challenged by what we do. Take a look around you. Most of us tend to be over-qualified for our jobs. While quitting or changing our jobs are not an option, what should we do to maximise the use of the 8-hour work time? First and as always, we need to set a target . What do you want to achieve by taking full use of your work time? It can be as general as "I just want to be more ...