Use of Key Areas
Identify your key areas
Key areas are headings—they are described using nouns that can be qualified by specific adjectives. The key area for a salesperson would, of course, be “Sales,” but this description is too general. It would be helpful to specify the different types ...
The Key Areas
The main purpose of the key areas division is to help you reach your goals, set priorities, and give you an overview and control. The key areas section tracks major tasks and projects you need to refer to repeatedly. There are 10 "areas", called the ...
The Elephant Technique
Another Claus Møller's technique for handling very large tasks, i.e., elephant tasks. Examples of Elephant tasks are developing a new product, learning a language, learning a programming or other skill, losing weight, getting fit, writing a book. ...
The Christmas Tree
Claus Møller pioneered the time management and results philosophy, which is integrated into the Practical Manager, focusing on desired results and what it takes to actually achieve them, thus moving from idea to action. To create results, you need ...
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Introduction
Welcome to Practical Manager! Practical Manager is the online tool that helps increase personal and team productivity and achieve business results. Use it as a personal results tool. It also enables you and your teams to create leadership excellence ...
What is Practical Manager?
Practical Manager is a tool that helps you and your teams: Develop and maintain an Employeeship culture by focusing on values that create business excellence. Share recognition for the values that are important in your organisation, catch people ...
What is Employeeship?
Employeeship is what it takes to be a good employee, just as leadership is what it takes to be a good leader. When an individual makes a wholehearted, goal-oriented effort to ensure the organisation's success, a special kind of personal commitment ...
Demands on employees in the Employeeship organisation
For all employees in a company to do their best and function as good "players in the team", it is necessary to specify what is expected of them, so they can use their inner capabilities to meet those expectations. In principle, these demands and ...
Demands on a team
Much of what a person has to do in life is done in cooperation, together with others, i.e., in a team. This is true at work, on a football field, and in a family. In other words, to accomplish something, you have to be able and willing to "play" with ...