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How Can You Be Productive from Home During the Coronavirus?

March 24, 2020 by whatsbestnext

The second week can be the toughest.

The first week of working from home can be a challenge, to be sure, as you make the adjustments. But you still have a bit of the novelty and new freedom to temper that.

The second week tends to become the greatest challenge. That’s when you realize the need to refine your habits and find ways of working that are sustainable and effective.

We’ve been thinking hard about how to best serve you during this time of the Coronavirus. We have many resources on managing yourself and creating a good schedule, which are central practices.

But we thought that the most helpful thing might be a one-on-one Q&A session. There are lots of good articles out there on working from home during this time. What there isn’t much of is real-time interaction that can allow you to get your specific questions answered and challenges addressed.

So that’s what we’d like to do for you. We have a limited number of spots where you can schedule a live, 60 minute Q&A session with Matt. Sign up here and then bring your toughest productivity and work challenges. Our goal is to help create solutions that are based on the best productivity research, which will last, and which will serve you well during this time of unprecedented change.

Filed Under: Remote Working

How to Get Unstuck in 2020 Using Design Thinking—Next Week’s Online Workshop

February 10, 2020 by whatsbestnext

UPDATE: Registration for this event is now closed. Thank you.

The new decade has begun…and most of us have probably already blown our New Year’s resolutions. Is there a way to get back on track?

Or, even apart from any New Year’s resolutions, we often have goals and meaningful projects that we are pursuing–but we’re stuck. We keep hitting obstacles (whether external or internal) that get in our way.

How do we get unstuck and accomplish our goals—with less effort, greater impact, and more margin? And how do we do this in a gospel-centered way, arising from God’s grace rather than sheer willpower? It is possible! Part of the answer is learning how to think like a designer and applying design thinking to our obstacles.

In this upcoming online workshop (next Tuesday, February 18th at 11:00 AM CST), Matt Perman will give you 4 tools, based in design thinking, for getting unstuck in a gospel-centered way that you can put into practice right away.

Spots are limited so be sure to reserve your virtual seat before registration closes on February 16th.

UPDATE: Registration for this event is now closed. Thank you.

 

 

Filed Under: i Productivity Obstacles, WBN Webinars

How to Plan Your Decade—Next Week’s Online Workshop

December 10, 2019 by whatsbestnext

Where do you want to be in 10 years?

2019 is ending, and a new decade is beginning. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover or recalibrate the long-term vision for your life!

We don’t achieve our goals on accident. Those who look to the future with purpose and make long-term plans are more likely to succeed and make good decisions than those who don’t.

In this upcoming online workshop—December 19th at 11:00 AM CST—Matt Perman will show you how to move from the GTD concept of a “weekly review” to a “decade review.” You will learn how to start your decade off right and make the most of your next ten years.

Spots are limited so be sure to reserve your virtual seat before registration closes on December 17th.

 

UPDATE: Registration for this event is now closed. Thank you.

 

Filed Under: Personal Vision, WBN Webinars

Get to Know Our Newest Coach

June 26, 2019 by whatsbestnext

At What’s Best Next, we pick our coaches carefully. We can’t just be thinking about productivity in the abstract, we need to know how to understand someone else’s challenges and help them make meaningful change.

That’s why we’re excited to introduce you to our newest coach, Daniel Kaufman. Daniel hails from the southern U.S., where he spent over a decade at Chick-fil-A helping train restaurant leaders and operators. He brings to our team a passion for organizational health, building successful teams, and gospel-driven change. 

Here’s a brief interview we did with Daniel.

Please tell us a little about where you’re from.
I’m a Georgia native, born and raised, and I’ve lived in the same 45-mile radius my whole life. I graduated from a two-stoplight town to another two-stoplight town called Senoia, GA. I grew up in a Christian home, but didn’t become a Christian until my early 20s—a common Bible-belt story. I have 3 siblings and some nieces and nephews that I adore.

What do you like to do for fun?
When I have spare time, I like to practice humility by playing disc golf at one of the local courses. I don’t always make it through all 18 holes, but that’s fine because I stop trying to keep track of my poor score around hole 12. If you walked into my house, you’d notice some musical instruments as well as board games. Both are go-tos when I or my roommates have the time.

How did you begin working with What’s Best Next?
Well, it started with me growing in my walk with the Lord from reading the book What’s Best Next. I had been interested in reading productivity and consulting books through the lens of Scripture. I would write notes in the margins about how something did or didn’t align with the Bible. Matt’s book was the first one I read where the author had already done that work, and I really fell in love with the truths and principles he was teaching. 

Jump forward a few years—I was using What’s Best Next and The Advantage (I’m also a huge Patrick Lencioni fan) to build my teams, but I hit a slump. Somewhere along the way, I learned that What’s Best Next provided productivity coaching. I signed up and started working with Matt. Those times were a huge encouragement to me, but an unexpected side effect was how much I developed a desire to work more with What’s Best Next one day and help others in the way I was helped. What’s Best Next was starting to expand coaching, but the time wasn’t quite right. That was a few years ago. This spring, the timing worked out and I’ve now been coaching officially with What’s Best Next for a few months.

You’ve done a lot of reading about work strategy and tactics. Any favorite tactics or tools you’ve found over the years?
I really like a lot of Patrick Lencioni’s models and checklists. They have helped me significantly. I’m a fan of What’s Best Next’s DARE framework and asking myself the question, “what’s best next?” in a prayerful way. I also use the 5 Whys technique for help in cause and effect problem-solving. A final favorite is the idea that simpler is generally better. We talk a lot at What’s Best Next about sticking to our core mission and centering our work around the right principles. I suppose you could say a favorite “tactic” is pruning to keep things from becoming too complicated.

What’s one of the toughest productivity challenges you’ve faced?
There was a point in my career where my team and I all felt stuck and I was exhausted. We were doing too much and it wasn’t super clear how to make changes within the current system. But we pushed forward and experimented and kept working. I was able to grow in more effective delegation and allowing others on the team to step up and grow. Eventually we got unstuck and after two years we even saw some of the changes we made in our team implemented across the organization, but at the time it felt like we would never make progress.

Do you have a favorite part of working as a What’s Best Next coach?
I’ve really enjoyed the role so far. The team is great to work with, and each person we serve has a unique story that we get to enter into. It’s a privilege to come alongside fellow Christians to support them. Growing up, I always wanted to be involved in so many different things around the world, and coaching has afforded me that opportunity as I work with people from Texas to Thailand.

Curveball. Do you have any hidden talents?
I don’t know about hidden, but I enjoy playing music every so often. Most people have never seen me play much guitar or piano. I studied theory early on, and can somewhat pick up and play any stringed instrument at this point—as long as it doesn’t require a bow!

Any parting advice if someone reading this is thinking about coaching others?
Pray for a genuine interest in the lives and good of others. Stay curious. People are fascinating, and there are always more layers and new insights to be learned for serving them better. You may know someone for years and then something comes up that helps you understand them in a fresh way. So stay curious!


Want to work with Daniel or another What’s Best Next coaches on the productivity challenges you’re facing?
Learn more about our coaching options.

 

Filed Under: WBN Coaching

More Coaching Spots Now Available

June 20, 2019 by whatsbestnext

We’ve been planning ways to serve you better, and to grow sustainably at What’s Best Next. Lately we’ve focused a lot of energy on expanding our coaching center to help more men and women across industries.

Today we’re happy to announce we’ve increased our coaching capacity.

We now have more summer slots available for our 2 HOUR DARE sessions. Named after the Define, Architect, Reduce, Execute framework in What’s Best Next, these sessions can be a great entry level experience if you’ve never worked with us before—a focused chance to look at some WBN principles and frameworks with an experienced coach to then apply on your own. Or maybe you just need some immediate help tackling current work challenges or are stuck on a complex project.

If you’ve ever thought about What’s Best Next coaching, now’s a great time to jump in on a 2 HOUR DARE session. Spots are first come, first serve for each of our coaches. We look forward to serving each of you soon.

To learn more or request more information about our other coaching options, reach out!

Filed Under: WBN Coaching

Updated Application Journal

April 10, 2019 by whatsbestnext

We’ve been working behind the scenes to change a few things to serve you better. Here’s one of the resources we’re bringing back into our toolkit—the Best Next Steps Application Journal.

This PDF download is a simple tool designed to help someone get back to focusing on what’s best next in their life and work. It offers a taste of how the principles of God’s Word can help us address our motives and actions, and gives a simple way to organize thoughts and next steps.

Download for free from our online store.

 

Filed Under: Productivity Tools, WBN Product News

Now Available: The Best Next Steps Application Journal

May 11, 2018 by whatsbestnext



Now available in our online store—a digital application journal to help you advance further in your productivity.

Why did we create this? The hardest part of improving our productivity is consistently applying the right principles and making them ongoing habits. We designed this application journal to address this issue. Research has shown that writing out your answers to exercise questions leads to far greater understanding and application than just reading the material.

So that’s what this journal does. With this short and interactive resource, we walk you through a process of discerning how you can become more effective to help you clarify what your priorities should be and how you can get the right things done. Use it to build a plan that works for you and start applying these principles in your life today.

This PDF resource is available in our online store for $2.

Filed Under: WBN Product News

How Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less (Updated PDF Article)

October 30, 2017 by whatsbestnext

Leaders, do you ever feel like your workload is just too much? Is it difficult to know what to prioritize?  

As a leader you’ve probably gathered great experience in a variety of work. You can probably generate a lot of activity and knock out a lot of tasks. But are you accomplishing the right things? Are you trying to do it all?

In this updated article, Matt Perman shares ways that you can accomplish more for your organization by doing less.

Download the free PDF to read later or share with your leadership team.

 

Filed Under: 3 - Leadership

A New Status Update

October 20, 2017 by whatsbestnext

We have been working hard behind the scenes to retool What’s Best Next for greater effectiveness.

Look for new content to begin rolling out next week, along with the launch of our new website, and a greater emphasis on our coaching and other services. We will also have updates on upcoming books, courses, and more!

Filed Under: WBN News

Status Report

January 7, 2017 by whatsbestnext

We haven’t been posting new content as Matt focuses on finishing his next book and our small team works on some expanded coaching and training options.

We look forward to sharing more about these as soon as we can. In the meantime, we continue to schedule one-on-one coaching sessions.

Filed Under: WBN Coaching

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What’s Best Next exists to help you achieve greater impact with your time and energy — and in a gospel-centered way.

We help you do work that changes the world. We believe this is possible when you reflect the gospel in your work. So here you’ll find resources and training to help you lead, create, and get things done. To do work that matters, and do it better — for the glory of God and flourishing of society.

We call it gospel-driven productivity, and it’s the path to finding the deepest possible meaning in your work and the path to greatest effectiveness.

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Matt Perman started What’s Best Next in 2008 as a blog on God-centered productivity. It has now become an organization dedicated to helping you do work that matters.

Matt is the author of What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done and a frequent speaker on leadership and productivity from a gospel-driven perspective. He has led the website teams at Desiring God and Made to Flourish, and is now director of career development at The King’s College NYC. He lives in Manhattan.

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