How to Create a Productivity Plan Using Employee Time Tracking. Track Thyself: Quantify Your Life For Productivity, Fun. There is one kind of personal analytics, or “Quantified Self,” that creates mesmerizing visualizations from remarkably in-depth data, as practiced by Nicholas Felton.
There is another kind, which involves your Facebook and Twitter acquaintances incessantly sharing the length of their workouts, the location of their lunch, and detailed debriefings on how their infant slept last night. Somewhere in the middle is where you want to be--where personal data tracking really pays off. There are plenty of tools for tracking just one thing you care about and regularly update on your own--exercise, eating, places you feel comfortable “checking in.” But what makes personal data useful and revealing is finding the sweet spot between curiosity and measurable data.
You can see exactly how Felton tracks his day in a Slate video from 2010. Ready to make your own discoveries into what you actually do with your life? See How You Actually “Work” with RescueTime. Work Smart. This Revolutionary Tool Can Help Keep Employees Happy, Engaged, And On Your Side. “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
--Fyodor Dostoevsky Imagine coming to work one Monday morning and finding your most talented and tenured employee waiting in your office. Before you have a moment to settle in, she places a letter on your desk and tells you directly, “This is my two-week notice.” Simply from how she’s chosen to deliver the news, (quick, to the point and well strategized) you instinctively know there’s no way of saving her. Flashing through your mind are all the critical projects she’s responsible for, and the clear awareness that it will take months before someone new can be brought up to her skill level. “This comes as quite a shock to me,” you lament. You grimace when you learn she’s headed to a key competitor--and that her reasons for leaving relate mostly to feeling unappreciated.
“I’ve been unhappy here for quite some time,” she reveals. A Shared Leadership Pain Point What If You’d Had An Early Warning Of Her Unhappiness? How TinyPulse Works. Company Wellness Programs, Company Wellness, Employer Wellness. The Answer is Activity.
Everyone is talking about creating a culture of wellness and improving employee health. It’s the right thing to do. Discover your brain’s daily productivity levels, attention span and optimal time to relax. Scientists from San Francisco, California have developed an award-winning technology to analyse and translate brain waves into meaningful data.
We've previously seen the tracking of brainwaves used to produce music, Emotiv Lifesciences, however, are working on a consumer product designed to improve brain fitness. The combo of wireless headphone and smart phone application traces your mental performance in real time throughout the day and helps you to increase your attention span and to reduce stress levels.
Withings Pulse Review - Health & Fitness Trackers. The Withings Pulse is an activity tracker marketed to just about anyone interested in learning more about their daily habits.
Released earlier this year, the Pulse tracks total steps, total distance traveled, elevation, calories burned, and your total sleep time and sleep quality. Unlike many other activity trackers, the device also lets you check your heart rate (hence the name Pulse) and track changes over time. As someone who's new to the world of activity tracking, I decided to test out the device for a week to see how easy it is for a layperson to use, and whether knowing such information can really inspire you to try to be healthier. [9 Odd Ways Your Tech Devices May Injure You] Design/Comfort: ★★★★☆ You can wear the Pulse in several ways: put it in your pocket, attach it to your belt/waistband with a clip (just as you would wear a pedometer) or place it in a wristband to wear like a watch.
I found the belt clip to be the most comfortable way to wear the Pulse. Body Tracking Gets Classy: Hands-On With the New CORE 2. This player is used on Facebook and anytime it's embedded outside of our sites.
BodyMedia is stepping up its game when it comes to tracking your body. The company unveiled the BodyMedia CORE 2 at CES 2013, the newest, smallest and most fashionable body monitor yet. There are currently two looks: One is a sporty armband and the other an elegant metal chassis, but the flexibility of the interchangeable unit will give rise to numerous options that will fit every user’s tastes. Like its other products, the CORE 2 has four unique sensors for the ultimate information tracking: temperature, heat flux, galvanic skin response and 3-axis accelerometer sensors. These senors capture more than 5,000 data points per minute, giving an extremely comprehensive report about the body’s current and past states. The CORE 2 unit can be interchanged with different straps, including a sports strap and a more elegant metal strap. Recommended by Dann Berg.