My Top Reads of the Past Week: Make the Most of Your Time at Work

When managed well, work can be extremely fulfilling. However you’ve got to really make the most of your time to feel like you’re moving forward and getting ahead.

This week I’ve put together a few articles to get you thinking about achieving work-life balance, structuring your day for success, and choosing the right time to get important tasks done. Also, if you’re looking for career advice with a twist, or are thinking about your next career move, articles 4 and 5 are for you.

  1. Billionaire Entrepreneurs Share Tips For Work-Life Balance - They must be doing something right. Get the inside scoop on how these successful individual manage their work-life balance.
  2. Structuring Your Day For Success - If you’re struggling to find an effective structure to your day, try this.
  3. Choose the Best Time to Do Each Task - Improve your chances of success by allocating specific times during the week to complete important tasks.
  4. Learning Career Lessons From Interns - Learning new skills, and getting stuck are traits of a great intern and are a formula for ongoing career success too.
  5. Get Noticed on LinkedIn - A ex-LinkedIn staff shares their tips for getting the most out of the platform during your job search.

If you came across a great article recently, let me know about it in the comments section below!

Bonus: Future of Work - Will Machines Take Our Jobs?

Anthony Goldbloom is the founder of Kaggle, a data analytics and predictive modeling startup that helps solve problems for companies like NASA, Ford and Deloitte. He shares his views on how machines will impact the world of work.

Over the past 60 years, we’ve witnessed the disruption of industries such as manufacturing (GM, Foxconn) and warehousing (Amazon) through the advent of advanced industrial robots. We’re now beginning to also see how knowledge work will be impacted by advances in machine learning. Recent examples of the Associated Press elisting software to write sports news, and Capgemini using IBM’s Watson to automate resource management certainly highlight the impact that this technology could have. However, it’s encouraging to know that there are things that machines can’t do. Ultimately it will be our ability to deal with novel situations that will set us apart. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.

About Timeo-Performance

We were founded with a vision to improve the world of work for everyone

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We are in the Skills Business!

Through recruitment, training and consulting, Timeo-Performance provides solutions for increased performance of companies, teams, and individuals. As our clients are in the center of global business and often serve the APAC region, our solutions need to be sustainable in a multicultural and remote context.

Our joint venture with Akteos, the European leader in intercultural training, and partnership with digital learning solutions provider CrossKnowledge have therefore been organic and logical additions to our service. Timeo-Performance has been helping companies in APAC increase business performance since 2008 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

We love what we do, feel the Timeo-Performance experience!

As busy professionals, our schedules are often filled to the brim with meetings and tasks to complete. We can get so caught up with work that we might even forget our all-important lunch and power through dinner as well. Alas, we can only do so much given the 24 hours we have in a day. While time management is vital, being productive is another matter in its entirety.Enter time batching.

THE AUTHOR

Isabelle Larche

Managing Director, Recruitment & Executive Search at Timeo-Performance

Isabelle is a Human Performance expert, with over 10 years of professional recruitment experience, and 15 years of Business Management Consulting experience. Isabelle is the Vice President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Trade Counsellor (Singapore Chapter) to the French Embassy.

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