TRABALHAR MENOS,TRABALHAR MELHOR.

Hoje decidi partilhar com vocês uma reportagem que li na Revista 2 do Público sobre o Slow Movement. Partilho este artigo porque concordo muitas das ideias que este movimento defende. 

A energia dos cidadãos, das comunidades ou dos países não pode ser empregue apenas no crescimento económico, mas na capacidade em distribuir equitativamente a riqueza, o saber, o trabalho, o lazer e o tempo. E isso é slow movement.  

Continue a ler:  http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/trabalhar-menos-trabalhar-melhor-1704803

Boa leitura e até amanhã!

10 DICAS PARA SER MAIS PRODUTIVO.

1 - Não faça planos apenas o dia seguinte. No mínimo, faça planos a três dias. Não sobre carregue a sua agenda de compromissos, deixe sempre um espaço para imprevistos. Se trabalha oito horas por dia, por exemplo, comprometa apenas quatro a cinco horas do seu dia. Dedique o tempo que lhe restante para o que não estava previsto.

2 - Tenha uma postura crítica diante de cada solicitação “Atividades importantes estão relacionadas com tempo e trazem resultado. As urgentes têm de ser feitas imediatamente". Essa diferenciação é vital.

 3 - Encare com mais seriedade (e estratégia) as ferramentas de produtividade (como agenda e aplicativos de gestão do tempo). Comprometa-se a usar um (e apenas um) deles. Para tirar o máximo de vantagem destes programas. Quando usa mais do que uma ferramenta corre o risco de perder mais tempo. Siga algum método de gestão do tempo. 

3 - Determine um horários para consultar o seus e-mails de acordo com a sua rotina de trabalho. Não se renda à tentação de abri-lo a todo momento e responder todas as solicitações.

4 - Assim como com o e-mail, determine horários fixos para consultar as redes sociais. E não se renda a tentação de sabotá-los ou estende-los.

5 - Utilize apenas uma ferramenta para organizar a sua rotina. Faça uso dela de maneira estratégica. 

6 - Tenha consciência de que crescimento na carreira implica mais responsabilidades. Mas isso não significa que tenha que abraçar o mundo sozinho. Quanto mais delegar, mais tempo terá para se dedicar às tarefas da nova função com excelência. Actividades confidenciais e estratégicas que dependam da sua decisão devem ser executas por você. Tarefas mais operacionais podem ser delegadas.

7 - Não faça reuniões para tudo. Quanto mais claro e pontual for o objectivo da reunião, melhor. Tenha como meta fazê-las curtas. O tempo ideal? Meia hora. O limite? Duas. E nada além disso.

8 - Analise o tempo dos outros antes de passar qualquer responsabilidade. Não fique centrado apenas nas suas necessidades. Tercerize actividades não essenciais para os assistentes virtuais por exemplo 

9 - Quanto mais a sua mesa estiver limpa, organizada e funcional mais economizará o seu tempo produtivo. Por isso, dedique-se a manter tudo, desde anotações até arquivos no computador, segundo uma lógica. 

10 - Pense na sua agenda de forma a dedicar tempo para si, sim, para si mesmo e para outros assuntos pessoais. “Se não tem tempo para quem faz diferença na nossa vida, no leito de morte, iremos nos arrepender pois é isso que faz a vida valer a pena”.

IS THERE LIFE AFTER WORK?

A Conciliação da vida profissional e pessoal é um dos maiores desafios que profissionais e executivos enfrentam num mundo cada vez mais competitivo, globalizado e dominado pelo advento das TIC.

A deixo-lhe aqui um excelente testemunho na 1.ª pessoa de Erin Callan ex-CFO do Lehman Brothers.

Um testemunho de como ela geriu, ou não, a sua vida pessoal e profissional, antes da falência do Lehman Brothers.

AT an office party in 2005, one of my colleagues asked my then husband what I did on weekends. She knew me as someone with great intensity and energy. “Does she kayak, go rock climbing and then run a half marathon?” she joked. No, he answered simply, “she sleeps.” And that was true. When I wasn’t catching up on work, I spent my weekends recharging my batteries for the coming week. Work always came first, before my family, friends and marriage — which ended just a few years later.

In recent weeks I have been following with interest the escalating debate about work-life balance and the varying positions of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and the academic Anne-Marie Slaughter, among others. Since I resigned my position as chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers in 2008, amid mounting chaos and a cloud of public humiliation only months before the company went bankrupt, I have had ample time to reflect on the decisions I made in balancing (or failing to balance) my job with the rest of my life. The fact that I call it “the rest of my life” gives you an indication where work stood in the pecking order.

I don’t have children, so it might seem that my story lacks relevance to the work-life balance debate. Like everyone, though, I did have relationships — a spouse, friends and family — and none of them got the best version of me. They got what was left over.

I didn’t start out with the goal of devoting all of myself to my job. It crept in over time. Each year that went by, slight modifications became the new normal. First I spent a half-hour on Sunday organizing my e-mail, to-do list and calendar to make Monday morning easier. Then I was working a few hours on Sunday, then all day. My boundaries slipped away until work was all that was left.

Inevitably, when I left my job, it devastated me. I couldn’t just rally and move on. I did not know how to value who I was versus what I did. What I did was who I was.

I have spent several years now living a different version of my life, where I try to apply my energy to my new husband, Anthony, and the people whom I love and care about. But I can’t make up for lost time. Most important, although I now have stepchildren, I missed having a child of my own. I am 47 years old, and Anthony and I have been trying in vitro fertilization for several years. We are still hoping.

Sometimes young women tell me they admire what I’ve done. As they see it, I worked hard for 20 years and can now spend the next 20 focused on other things. But that is not balance. I do not wish that for anyone. Even at the best times in my career, I was never deluded into thinking I had achieved any sort of rational allocation between my life at work and my life outside.

I have often wondered whether I would have been asked to be C.F.O. if I had not worked the way that I did. Until recently, I thought my singular focus on my career was the most powerful ingredient in my success. But I am beginning to realize that I sold myself short. I was talented, intelligent and energetic. It didn’t have to be so extreme. Besides, there were diminishing returns to that kind of labor.

I didn’t have to be on my BlackBerry from my first moment in the morning to my last moment at night. I didn’t have to eat the majority of my meals at my desk. I didn’t have to fly overnight to a meeting in Europe on my birthday. I now believe that I could have made it to a similar place with at least some better version of a personal life. Not without sacrifice — I don’t think I could have “had it all” — but with somewhat more harmony.

I have also wondered where I would be today if Lehman Brothers hadn’t collapsed. In 2007, I did start to have my doubts about the way I was living my life. Or not really living it. But I felt locked in to my career. I had just been asked to be C.F.O. I had a responsibility. Without the crisis, I may never have been strong enough to step away. Perhaps I needed what felt at the time like some of the worst experiences in my life to come to a place where I could be grateful for the life I had. I had to learn to begin to appreciate what was left.

At the end of the day, that is the best guidance I can give. Whatever valuable advice I have about managing a career, I am only now learning how to manage a life.

Erin Callan is the former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers.

Créditos: http://www.nytimes.com/