Tag: “Techniques”

Time blocking is a time management technique that involves dividing your day into specific blocks of time dedicated to specific types of activities. Time blocking allows you to be proactive: you decide in advance when you’re going to do each thing and for how long.

Batching, or task grouping, is a task management technique that involves grouping similar activities together and performing them consecutively in time blocks dedicated specifically to that type of work. Instead of constantly switching between different types of tasks throughout the day, batching proposes concentrating all tasks of the same nature into specific periods.

Implementing a shutdown ritual can be one of the biggest habits you can adopt if you’re serious about improving your overall well-being.

Have you ever finished a workday feeling busy but not productive? Have you found yourself jumping from task to task with no clear direction? The solution could lie in a simple but powerful habit: planning at the beginning of the day.

In 1983, psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge coined the term automation paradox to describe a seemingly contradictory phenomenon: the more sophisticated and reliable an automated system becomes, the more crucial human contributions become in order for it to function successfully. Paradoxically, at the same time that automation reduces routine workload, it also increases the importance of human skills when the system fails or encounters unforeseen situations.