Webinar: Managing Commitments and Expectations

Managing Commitments and Expectations: What to Do When There's Not Enough Hours in the Day

Join HDO and Rhetoric & Writing Professor, Dr. Clay Spinuzzi, as he covers basic self-management strategies such as being deliberate about taking on commitments, scheduling tasks appropriately, retaining flexibility, pruning low-yield commitments, managing failure, and avoiding decision fatigue.

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Webinar Leader: Dr. Clay Spinuzzi

Dr. Spinuzzi is a Professor for HDO and Rhetoric & Writing at UT Austin. He received his PhD from Iowa State University. Dr. Spinuzzi studies how people organize, communicate, collaborate, and innovate at work, especially in loose, digitally connected organizations that perform knowledge work. Dr. Spinuzzi has published several award-winning articles and four books: Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press, 2003), Network (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Topsight (Amazon CreateSpace, 2013), and All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Additionally, Dr. Spinuzzi also leads two professional training seminars for HDO: Achieving Balance: Time Management for Modern Professionals & A Good Idea is Not Enough: Persuading Like an Entrepreneur.