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Praise: We have used Slack to keep track of summer projects and their progress. We can see each of our technology team's tasks, and can help or add comments to individual assignments

Question: I want to do better in scheduling my own time, and sharing that information with others.

Polish: I would like to use the Google Suite more effectively in leveraging them and their addons instead of seeking outside systems to perform those tasks.

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Praise: I leave to work at a coffee shop nearby for 2-3 hours once a week. My boss is cool with it since he knows I get more work done when people can't find me. I also put my Beats on and focus when I

Question: I'm really good at managing my time and focusing when I need to get things done.

Polish: I would like to get better at managing my calendar. This coming year, I want to put department meetings, divisional meetings, check ups with team members, etc. on my calendar before the school year starts.

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Praise: Google tasks in the new Gmail layout.
Question: Work on one task at a time.
Polish: G tasks and organizing them or putting alarms on them.

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Praise: creating a to-do/task list

Question: how can I remind myself AND make time to log my helpdesk requests in the helpdesk system

Polish: Utilize Google Keep more

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Praise: For weekly meetings with various departments (on our calendars), I have attached a running agenda Google doc to the event  itself which we can all edit and track our work together on. We just keep adding to it, and no one ever loses it in their Drive because it's always connected to the meeting event in our calendars.

Question: I need help with the idea warehouse. What would be a good way for me (and perhaps my whole department) to collect ideas whenever they strike?

Polish: I'd like to learn more about and contribute to the "Veracross Tasks" Gantt chart my colleague started.

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Praise: I leave my office an hour or so a day to be able to concentrate on important tasks on my plate
Question: I want to do more tech training with staff next school year.  How do I get the time for training in an already busy beginning-of-the-school work week?
Polish:  I want to up my Filemaker database game.  We hired a part time database assistant who I can learn from.

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Praise: I like Google Keep and the new Gmail
Question: I need help not getting distracted
Polish: Keep

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Praise: I've started using Omnifocus 2 to try and organize my thoughts as well as tasks and ideas that I have to get done. It helps me divide items into appropriate bins and also a big bank for all ideas/tasks to be dropped into so I don't forget or miss out of something.

Question: How long should I block out time to work and find a hidden place away from my office?

Polish: I would like to continue polishing my use of Omnifocus as it is a very powerful tool with many different features that I am only just beginning to explore.

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Praise: I have used the built-in Gmail tasks to keep a to-do list minimized in my email
Question:  What's an appropriate percentage of time to block out for work?
Polish: Be more detailed in my own Google Calendar usage.

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Praise: I started to use Boomerang this past year to help with all the emails it get at night and on the weekends.

Question: How to stay current with Tech trends.

Polish: Staying focused on the Project at hand. I start to many things at once and then end up having to push off some projects.

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Praise: Writing down each task I have to accomplish at the start of each day and doing the most important first.

Question: How can I become more systemic about start of day routines?

Polish: Staying focused on a single difficult task. If an easy ticket comes in I'll go take care of that for the easy W rather than power through.

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Praise:
The pomodoro method encourages works in 25 min. increments with short breaks.

Question:
How do you stay connected to listservs? Block out time to respond, take it message by message? I think it's important to be an active participant but don't structure it well.

Polish:
I'd like Google Keep to allow for more robust formatting and marking up on the web version.

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Praise: I changed my email writing style from prosy to much more focused and responding directly to a question asked. Also, using TextExpander to fire in small snippets that expand into common responses that are paragraphs long.

Question: Do other’s have strategy to push back against the endless To Do list that happens as you get better at handling your To Do list? Said differently, the reward for excellent time management is that people seem to add more to the list. How to push against that?

Polish: Google Keep doesn’t appear to meet

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Praise: I like our new helpdesk ticketing system from Freshdesk. It has enabled us to use it currently for both tech and facilities, gives me a large amount of data points I can use for any number of arguments ( need more of X, less of X ) and the add-on apps are useful as well. ( TeamViewer and Zoom are two we currently use )

Question: How do I go about finding time to have team retreats? Even a half day seems to be too much for the org to handle without us.

Polish: I saw Eli going over Trello, and I think it has a plug in/add on for our new helpdesk ticketing system I want to try out! So I would want to "polish" Freshdesk a little by adding that to it.

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Praise: We have used Slack to keep track of summer projects and their progress. We can see each of our technology teams tasks, and can help or add comments to individual assignments

Question: I want to do better in scheduling my own time, and sharing that information with others.

Polish: I would like to use the Google Suite more effectively in leveraging them and their addons instead of seeking outside systems to perform those tasks.

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Praise: I try to stay hyper-organized. My inbox is similar to a to-do list. Everything in the inbox is something that I need to do or respond to or reference in the near future. I archive everything else. Usually it's under 20 emails! This helps me respond to things quickly and not let things slip through the cracks. My documents on my computer are super organized too which saves a lot of time finding things.
Question: I can get distracted from long-term projects by smaller things that need to get addressed. I like to get things off my to do list so much that I'll often focus on long-term projects only once everything else has been cleared out (I was also the person who would clean my dorm room to avoid studying - productive procrastination).
Polish: My Google Drive has gotten out of control. Anything new that goes in gets organized, but the initial import of all my stuff came through so jumbled that I still haven't sorted it.

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Praise: I like to use Trello. It is a great way to create multiple lists with due dates for each item. I can take notes on all items. I can also assign different lists or items to team members.

Question: What are your key steps for follow through? It is common that projects get started but lose steam and don't always end up fully realized.

Polish: We are not a Google school, we are just launching 365 and I would like to better understand how to utilize the tools collaboratively. In my previous experience it has felt clunky and complicated.