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Welcome to the first day of The 2024 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza!

We’re kicking things off with a fun and practical prompt to inspire us all. 

Share your best productivity tip in a new post in the Career Advice forum and explain why it works for you. After you’ve shared, reply to at least two other members’ tips to see what new ideas you can discover!

Today’s Prizes:
We’re giving away two packages valued at $250, that include Ember Smart Mugs, Daily Planner To Do List Notepads and Walnut Stand, premium notebook and Moleskin pen to help keep you organized and motivated all day long. 

Get involved, share your insights, and start the holiday season by making your workday more efficient. Let’s make Day 1 a big success!

Learn more about our Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza, here.

Time blocks for long-form writing and video work as well as batch work the “little emails.”

​@robbie.schneider Make sure to create a new post in the Career Advice Forum to be officially entered!

Complete agree with robbie.schneider. It’s be such a game changer for me putting on my google calendar focus times for reporting periods, video edits etc. If I have a particular heavy meeting day, I always make sure I block 1-2 hours of time to get through my Asana tasks. 

Agreed. Blocking time for creativity is essential! Hard to do sometimes but if you commit to doing it, it really increases your efficiency as well. 

Turning off or refusing to check your email for a set amount of time. Very similar to blocking time on your calendar, but I sometimes use this to plow through work and not have distractions. 

  1. EVERYTHING goes into my calendar, including blocking off time for lunch. 
  2. Being sure to step away from my desk occasionally to detach from my email.
  3. When planning social posts - I always start with the “set in stone” posts (holidays, anything tied to an event). I then fill in our re-occurring posts (e.g. employee highlights). Then you can see what space you are left to work with and start tackling filling them in with content. 

Invest in noise-canceling headphones if you’re in an office space. It helps to focus and prevent too many interruptions in-person when you need to dedicate time to your screen. 🤓

Time blocks for long-form writing and video work as well as batch work the “little emails.”

Agreed! Dedicated writing time is essential.

Turning off or refusing to check your email for a set amount of time. Very similar to blocking time on your calendar, but I sometimes use this to plow through work and not have distractions. 

Agreed. Disabling notifications and communicating to the team why is super helpful.

Utilizing the Pomodoro Technique!

​@raven.gill ​@emily.brees ​@suzbo ​@mmellander ​@mschilling ​@jenx2y Make sure to create a new post in the Career Advice Forum to be officially entered!

  1. EVERYTHING goes into my calendar, including blocking off time for lunch. 
  2. Being sure to step away from my desk occasionally to detach from my email.
  3. When planning social posts - I always start with the “set in stone” posts (holidays, anything tied to an event). I then fill in our re-occurring posts (e.g. employee highlights). Then you can see what space you are left to work with and start tackling filling them in with content. 

Yes, yes and YES!

Invest in noise-canceling headphones if you’re in an office space. It helps to focus and prevent too many interruptions in-person when you need to dedicate time to your screen. 🤓

Agreed! I actually don’t even play any music when working but I like the noise-cancelling. 

Hey all - I’m Katy and I lead Riskonnect’s (B2B SaaS) Global Social program, if we’ve never connected here before.👋

My best productivity tip is: Work on specific tasks for a certain thing all at once. 

For example, I’ll create all of the holiday posts in January of that particular year, that way they are already all set as we head into a busy year. 

 

Not only is it a good planning technique, but it’s also great for people like me who like to work on a particular type of work all at once when sort of in a ‘flow state’ for that type of work. 

I will also do all of my video editing on Fridays each week, since that’s usually the day when I can set aside the most time for that specific dedicated task.

TIP: Use AI to handle your light work (light tasks); as a Digital Marketing Specialist who also leads social content for a non profit, I found that using AI to draft social post has given my brain freedom! I run three platforms and the pro tip is to get AI to generate content for all 3 and I take those drafts and finesse the final versions (personalize and tailor to my orgs brand voice). 

Invest in noise-canceling headphones if you’re in an office space. It helps to focus and prevent too many interruptions in-person when you need to dedicate time to your screen. 🤓

AGREED! I work in communal spaces often and these have been a game changer for focus 

Turning off or refusing to check your email for a set amount of time. Very similar to blocking time on your calendar, but I sometimes use this to plow through work and not have distractions. 

This! I have worked it out to where I have committed focus hours on my calendars

 

🎁✨ Congratulations to our day 1 winners! ​@Brittany Taylor and ​@robbie.schneider! Please fill out the following form so we can send you your gifts: https://forms.gle/he9YasRMsuzkQhRv5

Didn’t win? No worries! There’s still plenty of changes to win. Check out today’s contest here: 

 

Aw shucks, thank you ​@Jonathan Zuluaga!

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