Tips, books, methodologies you swear by to be better at being organized?!
Leading a pretty big team on a large high exposure project and want to understand how best to get myself organized

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If you're leading, some thoughts on succeeding.

- Protect your teams' mornings: nothing kills productivity like a morning meeting. No meetings until 9:30 at the earliest, 10am is better. Having mornings to crank out some focused work and plan out the day is huge for your direct reports.

- Keep things stable: worst projects I've ever been on where I can't plan my day let alone my week. Off the cuff emergency meetings are fine when needed, but your team needs dedicated time to execute.

- Daily Standups with the client and team are good, short ones even better: huge waste of time and money is the weekly brief out slide deck and meeting. Don't do it. Following the client + team standup, have a quick internal team standup to level set on action items and priorities.

- Kanban: it just works.

- As few tracking documents as possible: one, simple repository for action items is far better than maintaining 5+ nonsense PM trackers.

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NP!

I like starting 30 minutes before my first meeting & just do a list of all the meetings I have for the day, and review high level info for all the ones the day before. Simple 1-2 bullets for each. I also just have post its all over my computer for things I pick up while on calls & then throw them out as things get accomplished. I like to end my day by getting a head start on the list I’d be using the next morning! Good luck! You got this!

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Bullet journaling

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Take note of all action items, assign owners, and deadlines. Delegating work I feel is half the battle.

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