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Stop the Task-Switching Cycle

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Overview

You'll reframe multitasking as rapid task-switching and detect the attention residue it leaves behind. You'll evaluate switching costs and organize your work to reduce delays, errors, mental drain, and repeated warm-up time.

Syllabus

  • Unit 1: Reframing Multitasking
    • Understanding the Multitasking Brain
    • Coaching a Confident Multitasker
    • Proposing a Single Task Meeting
  • Unit 2: Detecting Attention Residue
    • Understanding Task Switching and Attention
    • Spotting Attention Residue After Switching
    • Assessing Attention Residue After Task Switching
  • Unit 3: Evaluating Switching Costs
    • Understanding the Cost of Task-Switching
    • Walk a Colleague through the Task-Switching Chain
    • Assessing the Business Impact of Task-Switching
  • Unit 4: Reducing High Cost Switches
    • Categorizing Task Switch Costs
    • Batching Tasks to Protect Deep Work
    • Sequencing Milo’s Afternoon to Cut Switches

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