Master And Overcome Remote Work Information Overload

How much can you actually do? How long can you productively concentrate? Chances are that you are overestimating how much you can do at once and how long you can do it for. In this lecture, we'll look at some of the research on attention spans and cognitive capacity so you can get a better understanding of your own limits.

Download the Information Handling Challenge Exercise. See how much distraction you can handle before productivity suffers.

How do we organise our memories? What does the internal map of your thought and experiences look like? The answers to these questions may surprise you and change how you ingest information and keep a handle on your tasks.

Download the Memory Palace exercise and article on spatial theories of cognition and memory.

You're handling and combining a massive number of data streams each day, but do you know the scope of it? In this lecture, we look at mapping your sources of information and gaining an understanding of what you're really dealing with in your remote work context.

Download the Analysis Worksheet to help with information flow mapping.

Making decisions can be hard at the best of times, but when you're already burning out and it seems like you have an impossible number of things to get through, you need some sort of system to decide what's important and what isn't. In this lecture, we'll look at how to build your own system of rules to ensure you spend your energy where it will have the most impact.

Download the Daily Information Flow Log worksheet to help serialise, prioritise and condense information flows.

No person is an island, so when you are making radical changes to how you work and communicate, it is bound to affect the people you work with. In this lecture, we'll be looking at how to negotiate effectively with those you need to work with.

Download the Interview Sheet, which includes useful example questions to ask other stakeholders to help integrate workflows.

Now that you've learned how to streamline and prioritise your information flow, it's time to turn it into an actionable set of rules you can follow without spending any more cognitive energy on the task.

Download the Creating New Information Flow Rules worksheet to help you create information flow rules.

Do you feel like your mind and your body aren't all that connected? It turns out that your brain only does well when the rest of you is doing great too. In this lecture, we'll talk about how physical and mental wellbeing is linked and what the most important factors are you should keep an eye on.

Download the Stress Management Methods supporting document and complete the check-listing exercise to see how well your physical needs are being attended to.

Now you know that your mind and body are fundamentally linked. In order to give your mind the best chance at reaching peak performance, your body needs the right space and care. It's time to transform your workspace into a place you can thrive rather than simply survive.

Download the Ergonomic Office Checklist to see how well ergonomic principles are established in the home office.

You've done all the hard work of figuring out how you can limit information overload. Now it's time to let a machine apply what you've learned on your behalf. In this concluding lecture, we look at the software and hardware tools you can use to offload manual thinking from your brain to a computer brain.

In this concluding lecture, we look at the software and hardware tools you can use to offload manual thinking from your brain to a computer brain.