I’m in love with this sample of February posts from years past, and I hope you are, too! It’s a good time to check for “tolerations” – those small annoyances that can get in the way of your progress. Address them now! Here’s how. And speaking of tolerations, are you seeing too much of your…
Category Archives: Ergonomics
Want Greater Productivity? Walk This Way.
I’ve written before about ways to exercise when it seems hard to include exercise in your schedule. There’s another tool that I recently suggested to a client who wants to do a lot of exercise with no down-time. It’s a Steelcase desk called the Walkstation. The Walkstation’s basic structure is a treadmill that operates at…
Worth repeating – August posts from New Leaf News
I’m sharing a few posts from the New Leaf archives. Here’s what was on our mind in August during the past couple of years. Productivity depends on being able to work in comfort. Eliminate at least one pain in the neck with a wireless headset. Successfully planning for the future requires acknowledging past wins. Are…
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by Margaret Lukens, New Leaf + Company LLC We often accumulate “tolerations”, those small annoyances that interfere with our concentration and productivity but never seem to rise to the level that inspires us to take action. Like barnacles collecting on a ship, they weigh us down, imperceptibly at first, then dramatically. The new year seemed…
Meetings: stand up
As described in my organizing colleague John Trosko’s blog, one Los Angeles-area company found an effective way to keep its meetings “right sized” — they shed their chairs and held meetings standing up. Meetings that had been 30 to 60 minutes shrank to about half their former time. Think of the value to your business…
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By Margaret Lukens, New Leaf + Company LLC Accompanying a recent news story about Karen Bass’ historic election as speaker of the California State Assembly was a photo showing Bass, hard at work in her office, reaching for files while cradling a telephone receiver between her ear and shoulder. All I could think was, ouch!…