Coach Carol: Your attention please!
Posted by Carol McLachlan in In practice on Fri, 26/06/2009 - 14:17
- Accountants often pride themselves on being multi-taskers, but this is a delusion.
- As a multi-tasker, you're simply doing more while actually accomplishing less.
- Multi-tasking reduces productivity and affects our ability to retain information.
- In the 21st century, effectiveness should be valued above busy-ness.
Personal development coach, chartered accountant and NLP practitioner Carol McLachlan explains why we’re all suffering from a lack of focus and offers handy hints on how to get it back.
What else are you doing as you read this? Eating your sandwiches? Fielding phone calls? Peeking at emails? Keeping up with your CPD by podcast? Half an eye on that report? And that’s just at lunch time!
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