Speaker: Arjan Broere
A common complaint from knowledge workers is that the mundane (emails, messages, practical questions, someone at your desk, an ad hoc meeting) easily fills the day and makes for a somewhat reactive day. All those things are useful in themselves, but not necessarily the most useful. How do you achieve a balance between the everyday and the (medium) long term, without isolating yourself for days and introducing friction into collaboration so that you can do your deep work? Or that from now on you will only do 'important' things... That word is really not going to help you if everything is important in some way.
A dashboard is a way to bring together relevant management information, so that you can manage better (if I may extend the metaphor). In the Smarter Working dashboard you create four columns to overview both the everyday and the priorities that are further away.
You can create such a dashboard in your notebook or on a whiteboard above your desk, but also digitally. I would like to take you through an approach in Teams Boards and Obsidian. Two very different platforms with the same outcome: more overview, more balanced choices.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1lrsrtaijghjf1g2mzsbs/sw-dashboard-pkm-summit.pdf?rlkey=fkppxp4nmt7zugx4hnsjbeveq&dl=0