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Speaker 1: Good morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the

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Speaker 1: new world of work, where location and ours are more

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Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to schedule

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Speaker 1: pro active time or pro time for short. This is

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Speaker 1: time dedicated to tasks that, as Stephen Covey would say,

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Speaker 1: your daily schedule vastly increases the chances that you put

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Speaker 1: first things first. The term pro time comes from a

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Speaker 1: Harvard Business Review article by Charlotte Blank, Laura George, Laurel Newman,

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Speaker 1: and Ashley Willins called getting your team to do more

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Speaker 1: than meet deadlines. As the title suggests, most of us

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Speaker 1: know how easy it is is to spend all our

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Speaker 1: time on urgent tasks. When an assignment has a deadline,

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Speaker 1: this can mean we rarely get to the tasks that

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Speaker 1: researching new clients or writing a white paper to build

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Speaker 1: tasks are even more likely to get deferred if they

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Speaker 1: are hard. Urgent tasks offer a quick, easy win. We

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Speaker 1: if in the grand scheme of things we aren't. The

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Speaker 1: Harvard Business Review article describes the author's research about a

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Speaker 1: strategy to help workers do their most important work rather

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Speaker 1: than being consumed by what is urgent. One group of

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Speaker 1: workers identified tasks that were important and tasks that were urgent,

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Speaker 1: with dedicated time for important, non urgent tasks reported that

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Speaker 1: felt less overwhelmed, while they remained just as responsive to

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Speaker 1: uninterrupted pro time is a worry that clients will urgently

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Speaker 1: need them. It turns out that clients also like people

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Speaker 1: consider whether pro time could offer similar benefits for you

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Speaker 1: Then during your scheduled pro time, focus just on the

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Speaker 1: When your pro time comes to an end, note what

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Speaker 1: you've accomplished. If you're a manager, consider introducing your direct

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Speaker 1: reports to pro time too. You can work together to

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Speaker 1: you may be amazed at what you accomplish. And if

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Speaker 1: you try this pro time, I'd love to hear how

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Speaker 1: Laura Vanderkamp dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura,

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