Coaching practices for What Should My Workplace Title Be Based on What I Do It's Currently Digital Marketing
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I never actually decide what to work on
- I can name the field I want to be in but I can’t actually point to the specific thing I do that someone would reliably pay for
- I can’t even tell anymore whether my real work needs long stretches of quiet or quick coordination
- My work just feels like reports going into a void
- My phone is constantly hijacking me
Practices that may help
- Make attention direction a conscious, recurring choice
Before starting any work, deliberately choose where to direct your attention — not just what to do.
Attention Management, Made Practical - Identify what drives your economic engine specifically
Name the specific mechanism by which your work creates value that the market will pay for — not just a field, but a mechanism.
The Hedgehog Concept - Audit which schedule you’re actually running on
Identify whether your work requires maker blocks, manager slots, or a hybrid — and how well your calendar reflects that.
Maker vs Manager Schedule - Contribution mapping
Trace the visible chain from your daily work to a person or outcome that benefits.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day - Audit and redesign your digital environment
Your phone and computer are designed by engineers optimizing for your attention — audit them as you would a physical space.
Environment Design for Behavior Change - Map your manager’s top three priorities
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Assign a theme to each day of the week
Decide in advance which type of work each weekday is for and protect those assignments.
Theme Days, Made Practical - Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Identify your highest-value hours and protect them
Name the 3–5 activities that generate the most value in your work and life, and build the week around them.
The Time Audit - Define your territory: where creative work belongs
Name the specific space, time, and conditions that constitute your creative work territory and defend them.
The War of Art, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Creative Work Schedule
Dedicate each weekday to a broad category of work (deep creation, meetings, admin) to reduce context-switching.
Assign broad themes to days of the week
- Dedicated Space Creative Work
Name the specific space, time, and conditions that constitute your creative work territory and defend them.
Define your territory: where creative work belongs
- Fixed Work Window Creatives
Most prolific creators worked on strict schedules, not when they felt like it.
Work within a fixed daily window rather than "when inspired"
- How To Be More Organized At Work As A Manager
Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
- How To Be More Strategic At Work
People strong in strategic thinking keep the team focused on what could be, not just what is.
Lead from the strategic thinking domain — absorb and analyze information
- How To Be More Visible At Work
Trace the visible chain from your daily work to a person or outcome that benefits.
Contribution mapping
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