Week 2: Work Smarter Not Harder – Tips To Being A Great Leader – Quiz

Research says ______________ is a myth and can be damaging to our brains. You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals. (Reference: Article)

One study found that its most productive employees preferred a work routine where they spent, on average, ____ minutes engrossed in their work, took a ____-minute break, and then returned to their work. Retaining the highest level of productivity toward achieving your goals in a day is not working longer; it’s working smarter with frequent breaks. (Reference: Article)

Which of the following is NOT a strategy mentioned to help with procrastination. (Reference: Article)

Dr. Hansen’s takeaway from the study about work hours and performance was that we should work about ____ hours per week and work differently, or smart, and not take on more hours beyond that because performance actually decreases.

In the podcast, they mention that another tip to being successful is to have a narrow work scope. If you have a narrow work scope, then you have to be exceptional in the few things you do. What was the word Dr. Hanson used to describe these types of people, and that he defined as “paying phonetic attention to detail”?

In the podcast, they discussed a study that found out that ____-collaboration can actually be bad for an organization. One of the problems mentioned is that people are under-resourced on those collaboration projects.