Emails: check up to three times a day, turn alerts off
Important tasks: Up to five a week, monitor weekly then daily
Appointments: Shared calendar to co-ordinate activities
Kate Hart uses a detailed productivity system to ensure she can prioritise the right work during her day job as a partner at strategy consulting firm Kearney while also having enough free capacity to spend quality time with her husband, Tim, and their three children.
Her system involved a combination of software – email, digital notes, and shared calendars and “to do” lists – as well as frequent rapid planning sessions to make sure that she is focusing her time on the right tasks.
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