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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 hours are more

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

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Speaker 1: a done list to keep track of your accomplishments. Long

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Speaker 1: time listeners of my other podcasts know that I like short,

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Speaker 1: focused to do lists. The done list is a great

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Speaker 1: compliment to the to do list. In addition to saying

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Speaker 1: what you intend to do, you say what you actually did.

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Speaker 1: Even if you don't start the day with a to

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Speaker 1: do list, keeping a done list can still boost your

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Speaker 1: productivity and satisfaction. When you're working in an office, it

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Speaker 1: seems like you've done your job by showing up in

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Speaker 1: the morning and being at work all day. There may

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Speaker 1: be problems with this mindset, but that's a topic for

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Speaker 1: another podcast. For people who are new to remote work,

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Speaker 1: one of the most disorienting questions is how to know

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Speaker 1: whether you've put in an honest day's labor. If your

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Speaker 1: last call ins at four thirty, is it okay to

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Speaker 1: stop working? What time should you start if no one's

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Speaker 1: looking to see if you're at your desk, people working

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Speaker 1: remotely do their jobs, not by showing up at an

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Speaker 1: office at a certain time, but by getting tasks done.

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Speaker 1: This is true whether you work remotely all the time

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Speaker 1: or just temporarily because of the coronavirus. If you want

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Speaker 1: to be successful working remotely, you need to be sure

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Speaker 1: that every day you make real progress towards important goals.

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Speaker 1: Keeping a done list can help you do that. So

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Speaker 1: what goes on a done list your calendar will give

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Speaker 1: some shape to the day. You will also hopefully be

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Speaker 1: guided by it to do list or daily priorities, or

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Speaker 1: whatever form your goals take. In addition, there will be

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Speaker 1: unexpected things that come up during the day and require

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Speaker 1: your attention in as you work your way through the day,

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Speaker 1: with its planned and unplanned tasks and commitments, record your accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: I addressed Bill's concerns about Friday's meeting. I drafted the

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Speaker 1: introduction to our quarterly report. I reviewed April's budget and

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Speaker 1: compared that with what we're actually spending. A done list

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Speaker 1: like this creates accountability. When you know you're going to

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Speaker 1: make a done list, well, you want to be sure

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Speaker 1: that it's not empty. You want to write important accomplishments

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Speaker 1: on your done list each day, and so you naturally

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Speaker 1: prioritize high value tasks. And of course, as we all

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Speaker 1: figure out how to do remote work well, there's an

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Speaker 1: added benefit to keeping a done list. If your boss

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Speaker 1: asks you how things are going, you have something to

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Speaker 1: show her that addresses any concerns. You're done list could

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Speaker 1: take a variety of forms. If you write a to

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Speaker 1: do list somewhere, the done list could go right next

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Speaker 1: to it, hopefully matching up nicely. Or you could keep

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Speaker 1: a running list of accomplish months in a spreadsheet. These

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Speaker 1: can be helpful to look over if you're feeling a

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Speaker 1: little less than productive someday. If you're a manager, you

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Speaker 1: can encourage your team to keep done lists too. When

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Speaker 1: you check in with your team members, the done lists

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Speaker 1: can provide a convenient record of what's going on. You

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Speaker 1: can talk about what you'd like to see on the

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Speaker 1: done lists at your next check in. You might even

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Speaker 1: have your team members email you there done lists each

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Speaker 1: day or each week so you can congratulate them on

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Speaker 1: a job well done. If you use a done list,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about it and how it's affected

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Speaker 1: you and your team. You can reach me at Laura

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

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's the succeeding in the New

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