Business Coaching

We all contract with people every day as we depend on others to help us achieve our goals. This includes asking an employee to do something, contracting with a service provider to deliver goods or services, or asking colleagues to make a decision. What do you need to know about contracting in order to manage expectations?

People often use a to-do list to make sure they do the things that will make them achieve their day-to-day goals. But what if that to-do list grows faster than the speed at which you can complete tasks on the list? How can you make sure you are spending energy where it will make the biggest difference?

In his book The 7 habits of highly effective people, Stephan Covey uses the two definitions URGENT and IMPORTANT to classify these activities.