Think Clearly Work More Efficiently

Solve problems fast in project management, focus on mindfulness emotional intelligence & concentration, learn anti-stress strategies to be calm

Simone Janson, Simone Janson, Simone Janson

• Publisher: Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9783965962910
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Subtopic: Aviazione

In the 4th, completely revised edition of this groundbreaking guide, published by an award-winning publisher, renowned experts (overview in the book preview) combine their knowledge with interactive AI. This unique combination of decades of experience and state-of-the-art technology enables you to master challenges on a whole new level. Thanks to the innovative transfer of information, complemented by personal experiences of success, you can realize your goals and reach your full potential. Because solving problems and achieving one's self-set or externally specified goals is not always easy in everyday stress. Intrinsic motivation helps to put one's own focus on what is really important and essential. Focus is the magic word when it comes to working efficiently and productively and putting plans into action, even when unexpected obstacles stand in the way. Good time management, mindfulness and resilience help to overcome difficulties without fear and to work more efficiently with focus. This book shows how. For its concept "Information as Desired, " the publisher won the Global Business Award as Publisher of the Year and received government funding. It is also a partner of the Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany. The goal to give you the best possible content on topics such as career, finance, management, recruiting, or psychology goes far beyond the static nature of traditional books: The interactive AI Extended Books not only provide AI-optimized content in several languages based on data analysis but also allow you to ask individual questions and receive advice tailored to your personal interests. Each book contains detailed information and examples for your successful use of AI. You can utilize AI software for free, download e-courses, collaborate with workbooks, or engage with an active community. So you gain valuable resources that enhance your knowledge, stimulate creativity, and make your personal and professional goals achievable and tangible. Expertise and technical innovation go hand in hand, as we take the responsibility to deliver well-researched and informed content seriously, honoring the trust you place in us. Due to the unique combination of human expertise and innovation, we can publish works that meet your requirements in every aspect. And furthermore, we want to offer you the opportunity to make your journey towards personal growth and success even more unforgettable. We understand that true change occurs not just in the mind but primarily through personal experiences and application. Therefore, we've conceptualized special success journey experiences tailored to each book for you. Be inspired to elevate your life to an entirely new level. By purchasing the books, you can also do good: The publisher dedicates about 5 percent of book sales revenue to socially relevant or sustainable projects. We provide scholarships, support innovative ideas, and contribute to climate protection initiatives. Publisher Simone Janson is also a bestselling author and one of the top 10 influential German bloggers according to the Blogger Relevance Index. Additionally, she has been a columnist and author for renowned media outlets such as WELT, Wirtschaftswoche, or ZEIT - more about her can be found, among other places, on Wikipedia.

Social media time management and work organization: filtering filtering filtering
// By Simone Janson

How to use social networks properly: filtering, filtering, filtering. But how do time management and work organization work on the social web?

Pure type thing

Social media is free !? This is one of the biggest mistakes that many people are still attached to. Because not only do we pay with our data for the free use of services such as Twitter or Facebook. No, depending on what we want to achieve, we also have to put a lot of (work) time and energy into the commitment. Because, incidentally, as many would like it to be, the thing can't be done. And above all, companies that use social media as a marketing channel have to deal with it extensively and continuously deliver added value. This leads us to the question: How much time does social media really cost? And how do we best organize?

The question of how much time is needed can be answered very easily. Or maybe not. The answer is: it depends. Namely what and who you want to achieve in social media. Do you just want to know what your friends are doing or find out about the whole world? Do you just want to consume or become active yourself? Are you already active or just starting - in that case the effort will probably be greater at the beginning. Therefore, the time spent is different for everyone.

A detailed study carried out by MTV Networks in cooperation with Volkswagen and Nielsen Research in autumn 2010 shows how different they are. Topic of the MePublic study: The usage behavior of young people in social media. In 9 months more than 26.000 participants aged 14-29 years in 10 countries were interviewed. The participants from Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France, USA, Japan, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand partly also kept online diaries about their experiences, which they discussed with the authors of the study. In the preparatory phase, around 200 academic research papers, commercial market media studies and press publications had previously been analyzed. In addition, the MTV network was used intensively to work out the questions in order to record cultural differences.

Different intensities in use

Six user types have emerged that use social networks with different intensities and with different motivations. The ski pits use social networks skeptically and cautiously, which means that they are less common. The Funatics are also not particularly active themselves, but they spend more time in social networks that are part of their entertainment program - for example, to play. The crewsers, on the other hand, are particularly committed: They cultivate particularly intensive communication and interaction with their friends, which means that their main focus is on friendship, love and community. For Tagtics, social networks are primarily used to exchange information. You, too, are very active, although more observant. Your network is not large, but you have a lot of close friends in it. The power users are the mediacs: social media are their companions in everyday life, regardless of whether it's about information, fun or the community. They are active in several social networks at the same time and spend several hours in them every day. They also most often share experiences with products and brands with their friends. After all, the opposite is true of the nobuddies, who do not use social networks at all or have sworn them off. You can hardly see any benefit in them, they often lack the time and the users have concerns about data protection.

So the study shows that there are six quite different types of use that use social media applications with very different intensities. But how does this affect the usage time? And how much time should, must or can I spend with social media? Here the American author Beth Kanter helps us. Kanter differentiates between five different stages of social media use - and differentiates the amount of time depending on the level of activity from users who only want to read and consume, who also want to share the content, to those who are interested in building their own community. The numbers she calculated should be understood as guidelines:

How much time does social media cost?

1. I just want to listen and read, but I don't want to be active myself: Tools like Twitter, RSS reader or Google Alerts help here. A maximum of 5 hours a week is sufficient here.
2. I want to share with others and share simple information: Tools like Twitter, Ping.fm or Facebook help here. You should expect about 5-10 hours a week.
3. I want to distribute messages at a professional level in order to do self-marketing, but keep the effort low: channels like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, StumbleUpon or Twitter clients like Hootsuit or Tweetdeck help here. You should calculate 10-15 hours a week for this.
4. I don't just want to spread the news, I want to spread my own content: This is where bloggin platforms WordPress, Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, photo communities like Flickr or Picasa, video platforms like YouTube or Vimeo help - and of course the social media tools already mentioned, especially Facebook and Twitter for further dissemination. You should expect 15-20 hours a week.
5. I want to build my own community: At the latest now it makes sense to link the activities from point four with the best-known social networks, for example by adding a Facebook page to your own website. Since responding to readers and answering queries takes a lot of time, you should calculate 20 hours or more per week.

Because every jeck is different. I use eg on my blog Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® also significantly more time than 20 hours a week. But he also saves me a lot of time, for example when researching, because the blog serves as an archive of topics for my work, but also during acquisition, because customers and journalists approach me after they have gone through me have found the net. I also process the requests of my readers via the comment function or forum, because the bulk of the requests via eMail could hardly be answered. The blog is thus almost the center of my communication, on which all threads come together and with which I earn my money. So it's no wonder that I spend most of my time directly or indirectly on the blog.

Are you already twittering or are you still alive?

Recently in the subway on the way home, I was reading Twitter on my smartphone, freshly relaxed from sports. I want to use my idle times effectively instead of staring stupidly at the Leut subway! The relaxation was quickly over: I had discovered at least seven articles that I wanted to read or bookmark on my computer. When I sat at home with seven browser windows clicked on, and by the way again quickly eMailWhen I called it up, I had to ask myself: Why is it that a few messages get you so upset? What makes us want to keep clicking on all the exciting and important news? And how do we stop?

The solution is actually quite simple: We have to identify the whip-ups and important makers on the Internet - and not let them seduce us. Because that is exactly the problem on the Internet: headings, tweets or the subject lines of eMails are usually and intentionally designed to seduce us. At least if the copywriters know their craft. I rarely noticed that as much as that evening: In the 140-character preview, the texts all sounded extremely interesting. Well, not even half of it was really worth reading when skimming it on your home screen. Just good marketing! Above all, the Twitter virtuosos play skilfully with the curiosity of their readers. For example, if you write such advance notice: "I know that I will never use this app, but I still have to buy it!" And of course everyone wants to know why someone wants to spend money on something that they already know in advance that it is unnecessary. If the person in question had just tweeted: "This could be a really exciting app!" - the effect would not have been the same.

Media works the same way. Not just Twitter. The Dadaist Hugo Ball wrote in 1919 in his Critique of German Intelligence: “As a German prophet you have to shout loudly and speak clearly. Because the people are hard of hearing. Infinite repetitions of a few thoughts ultimately do not fail to have an effect. " Not everyone who publishes on the Internet is a prophet, but the mechanism is always the same: something is made exciting, important and urgent, desires are aroused to have to click on certain information now, which in truth is is not that interesting at all or that you could just as easily have read another time. Or that you don't have to read at all because you have often read or heard the content in a different form. The fact that we keep falling for it is because our brain reacts more to strong stimuli, feelings and exciting topics than to boring messages - which may contain the more interesting information.

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