Calendar Management Tools

This is not your regular matrix table in Power BI. It’s built to feel like a real calendar — and actually help users find what matters. ✅ You select a month ✅ You see events and KPIs directly on the calendar ✅ You highlight specific tasks instantly with one click And the best part? No custom visuals. No hacks. Just a matrix visual + a calendar table + a few smart DAX tricks. It’s clean, interactive, and easy to understand. And it instantly answers the question: "What's happening, and when?" And it gets even better: 🔹 The calendar automatically shows all days, even if no event exists, so you never lose the full month view. 🔹 You can display multiple pieces of info — like the day number, events list, and total spend — inside each calendar cell. 🔹 Users can select multiple events and highlight only what they care about. 🎯 Perfect for marketing calendars, campaign tracking, content publishing plans, or internal project timelines. Would you use a calendar view like this in your reports? 🎥 Here is the complete step-by-step tutorial: https://lnkd.in/grgAy66e #PowerBI #CalendarDashboard #DataViz #DashboardDesign

Your calendar is quietly killing your career. The average leader spends 23 hours per week in meetings. That's 1,196 hours per year. Almost half your working life. And 71% of those meetings?  Complete waste of time, according to Harvard. Here's your playbook to take back control: 7 RULES TO CUT YOUR MEETINGS BY 50% 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ✅ Challenge every recurring meeting ⤷ Default to 30 minutes, not 60 ⤷ Test weekly → bi-weekly → monthly 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 ✅ Do the math: Hours × Salaries × Attendees ⤷ Share the real number with stakeholders ⤷ Watch priorities shift instantly 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 ✅ Cancel every meeting next week ⤷ Note what actually breaks ⤷ Rebuild based on reality 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 ✅ Your presence isn't always needed ⤷ Trust your team to represent you ⤷ Gain back focused work time 𝗦𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗰 ✅ "Could this be an email?" (Often yes) ⤷ Use shared docs for updates ⤷ Record key discussions 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜 ✅ Generate quick meeting summaries ⤷ Keep decision-makers only ⤷ Automate the routine 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳, 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 ✅ Protect essential 1:1s ⤷ Guard your peak energy hours ⤷ Focus on decisions, not updates Hard truth: Your calendar isn't just time. It's what you'll achieve this year. It's your career trajectory. It's your life energy. Top performers don't just manage time. They defend it ruthlessly. What meeting will you cancel today? 👇 🔔 Follow Dave Kline for more frameworks ♻️ Share to help others reclaim their time

For all of us, time is the most valuable asset. In an organisation, where the leaders spend time signals the priorities, shapes culture and determines whether the organisation executes on what truly matters. Great time management, I have found, isn’t about squeezing more tasks into a day; it’s about aligning your time with critical outcomes and creating leverage through people, processes and decisions. Those who are good at this make the hour last longer. Why is time management key? It converts strategy to action. Your calendar is the operating system of strategy. If this calendar doesn’t reflect the company’s priorities, the organisation isn’t likely to achieve its goals. It frees time for what matters. Leaders create impact less by doing and more by enabling. Ensuring time availability for the right activities multiplies output. It improves decisions. Unrushed thinking and focused reviews improve judgement, reduce rework and prevent “urgent” fires. It is the signal for direction and culture. Teams copy leaders’ calendar management style. When the leader models deep work, prioritisation, preparation and learning, others in the team follow. What are the common obstacles? Tyranny of the urgent: Unplanned demands, whatsapp pings and what gets classified as “urgent” crowds out important work. Meeting creep: Meetings accumulate without a clear purpose or decision rights Ambiguous priorities: Undefined, unprioritized goals produce reactive calendars where everything feels equally important. Delegation gaps: Work gravitates upward when role clarity or trust is low; leaders become doers, choking bandwidth Context switching: Too much activity especially in different contexts leads to poor focus; 60 minutes of activity is then only 10 minutes of progress. Saying “yes”: Without guardrails, leaders accept more than their calendar can bear. What’s the fix? Define the focus. Translate strategy into key quarterly outcomes. If an activity doesn’t advance these, it’s a candidate to decline, delegate or delay. Design your ideal week. Time-block for people, performance, thinking and certainly for buffers Run meetings like decisions, not rituals. Ask for a pre-read with the question to be decided, options, data and recommended next steps. Start with the decision, then discussion. End with the owner, deadline and success metric. Schedule Important/Non-Urgent work first each week. Deal with urgent/important issues and define what “urgent” means with your team. Delegate for outcomes, not tasks. Reduce context switching. Batch similar work so you don’t have fragmented focus. Silence notifications during deep work. Install guardrails for what you say “yes” to Audit and iterate. Review your calendar monthly: What created impact? What can be eliminated? Your calendar tells a very important story. Read it. As someone said, "When you invest your time in what truly matters, balance follows and happiness becomes the dividend"

Your calendar isn't just busy. It's bankrupting your brain. I watched a founder lose 92% of his decision-making capacity from calendar chaos. His schedule: → Back-to-back meetings → No buffers → Zero thinking time Result? He bombed a crucial pitch. Not from poor strategy. From decision fatigue. Your brain has limits: 1. Each decision depletes mental resources 2. Quality degrades throughout the day 3. Executive function fades fastest The solution isn't your productivity system. It's your calendar design: 1. Manage Decision Density ↳ High-stakes decisions before noon ↳ Batch similar choices ↳ Buffer between meetings 2. Create Strategic Space ↳ 2-hour deep thinking blocks ↳ Calendar-free mornings ↳ One meeting-free day/week A founder I coached went from 16-hour days of back-to-back meetings to: → "Better decisions in less time" → "Focused meetings, not frantic ones" → "No more 2AM work anxiety" The cost? Fewer meetings. Braver boundaries. Your calendar isn't just a scheduling tool. It's your cognitive capacity's operating system. What meeting will you remove next week?

Time management tools are everywhere—honestly, it can be overwhelming! 😵💫 So how do you choose the right one? Here’s what I’ve learned: simplicity wins every time. And when it comes to simplicity, there’s one tool I recommend again and again. It’s not flashy, it’s not complicated, and chances are, you already have it. It’s your calendar. Why the calendar? ✅ It’s already installed on your phone. ✅ It’s free (can’t beat that!). ✅ It’s easy to use; no complicated setups or tutorials required. ✅ And here’s the kicker: when used well, your calendar can be the most powerful tool for managing your time. Not sure where to start? Try these tips: 1. Put tasks directly on your calendar instead of a to-do list. This turns “maybe I’ll get to it” into “this is when it’s happening.” 2. Schedule buffer time between appointments. Start with 5–10 minutes to catch your breath or handle the unexpected. 3. Share your calendar. If you work with a team, it’s a great way to communicate availability and avoid endless back-and-forth. The best tools don’t have to be fancy—they just need to work. So, what about you? How do you use your calendar to stay on top of things? #bestadvice #productivity #davecrenshaw

Scheduling in Kubernetes happens in various ways. Depending on the workload, you might need different algorithms like 𝗚𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. Volcano, a CNCF project, supports this and can optimize complex workflows such as AI training, inference pipelines, and distributed data processing.  🚀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴? Gang scheduling ensures all pods in a group ("gang") start simultaneously or none do. This prevents partial execution, which is critical for interdependent tasks like distributed training or multi-stage AI pipelines. Without it, a single delayed pod could stall an entire workflow, wasting resources. 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲: In distributed AI training, if three worker pods are needed, Volcano’s gang scheduler waits until all 3 are available. If even one fails to schedule, the scheduler releases reserved resources to avoid cluster deadlocks. ⚡ 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗼? Volcano extends Kubernetes’ default scheduler to handle batch workloads and multi-pod dependencies. It’s ideal for: → AI/ML workflows (e.g., TensorFlow/PyTorch jobs). → Big Data processing (Spark, Flink). → High-performance computing (HPC). Key features: ✅ PodGroup orchestration: Treats multiple pods as a single schedulable unit. ✅ Fair-share resource allocation: Balances cluster resources across teams. ✅ Preemption/Reclaim: Prioritizes critical workloads without manual intervention. 🌟 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 Imagine training a large language model (LLM) across 3 GPUs. With gang scheduling: → Volcano groups all worker pods into a PodGroup. → The scheduler reserves resources only when all 3 GPUs are available. → If a node fails, Volcano retries or releases resources instantly, avoiding idle clusters. This eliminates "resource hoarding" and ensures cost-efficient scaling for AI teams. #Kubernetes #mlops

You're staring at your calendar filled with back to back meetings. Slack notifications blowing up your phone. 57 unread emails. And your manager just asked why you haven't hit your outbound quota this week. Is this you? Here's the harsh truth most sales leaders won't tell you: Your productivity "system" is actually DESTROYING your performance. I see it every day. Reps working 12-hour days but barely hitting quota. Constantly reactive instead of proactive. Feeling overwhelmed while watching top performers somehow find time for family, fitness, AND crushing targets. What's the difference? Top performers don't have more time. They have INTENTIONAL SYSTEMS. After coaching thousands of reps from struggling to President's Club, I've developed the PACER Method that's transforming how enterprise sales teams operate: P - PERSONAL: Block purple time for family events, quality connections, and being present. A - ADMIN + ACTION: Color code red for meetings, operations, and sales calls. Batch these together to avoid constant context switching. C - CREATION: Schedule blue blocks for deep work like building strategic account plans and crafting executive level messaging. E - ENRICHMENT: Mark green time for growth activities. Reading, learning, and developing skills that fuel your performance. R - RECOVERY: Protect yellow blocks for mental, physical and emotional renewal. Elite athletes need recovery periods…so do elite sellers. The key? Design your "perfect week" template with all 5 components color coded, then track your core metrics (discovery calls, win rate, ACV) to measure what's actually working. Even hitting 50% of your perfect week beats showing up reactive to whatever's in your inbox. The hardest territory to manage is the one between your ears. Your ability to master your calendar directly impacts your ability to master your income. — Want even more details about PACER? Go here: https://lnkd.in/gbpFye_t

Automation Tip Tuesday! 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺: A small medical practice uses Pipedrive for lead management and Calendly for appointments. Lots of manual work to schedule an initial appointment. 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Automate the steps, saving time (and reducing the risk for human error!) 1. New inquiries come in through the company’s website 2. Use Zapier to automatically add the lead to Pipedrive 3. Use Zapier to send an email with a link to schedule via Calendly. 4. Calendly is connected to Zoom so the scheduled appointment includes the link 5. When the client schedules an appointment, the deal in Pipedrive is update to “Call Scheduled” 6. Use Calendly automation to send an appointment confirmation.  7. If the prospect doesn’t schedule, a follow-up email is sent This can work with a bunch of different CRMs (Keap, HubSpot, etc) and meeting (like Google Meet) combos. -- Hi, I’m Nathan Weill, a business process automation expert. ⚡️ These tips I share every Tuesday are drawn from real-world projects we've worked on with our clients at Flow Digital. We help businesses unlock the power of automation with customized solutions so they can run better, faster and smarter — and we can help you too! #automationtiptuesday #processautomation #softwareintegration

I spend a huge part of my week just managing my calendar — finding free slots, rescheduling meetings, dealing with recurring events, and juggling multiple time zones. It’s tedious and eats into real work. That’s why I decided to build my own solution: a Google Calendar AI agent powered by Google’s Agent Development Kit. This agent can: 👉 Understand plain English commands like “Schedule a 1-hour call with Alex next Tuesday morning”. 👉 Suggest free time slots based on my existing calendar. 👉 Handle recurring events, cancellations, and attendees automatically. 👉 Work across time zones without any manual conversion. While building this, I learned something crucial: AI isn’t just about generating text — it can actually perform actions that solve real problems. Designing this agent taught me how to bridge natural language understanding with real-world API actions. I wrote a detailed step-by-step blog, including code snippets and logic, so anyone can replicate this setup or build their own AI productivity assistant: https://lnkd.in/dsDhtcMr #AIAgents #AgentDevelopmentKit Google Cloud #GoogleAI #GoogleCalendar #CalendarManagement #AgenticAI

Current "task" management system I use: Google Tasks + Calendar. Here is how I use it: I split everything I need to do into three buckets: Now, Next, and Later. Google Tasks lets you do this. The idea is obvious once you hear it. Now means things I’m committed to doing this week. Next is for things I might do soon, but not yet. And Later is where tasks go to die—though occasionally, one claws its way back. At the start of every week, I go through the list. What’s really important now? What matters enough that I should carve out actual time for it? Only those make it into Now. In the calendar task view, I'd only look at the "now" task. I drag those tasks onto my calendar. There’s something about seeing them take up space—literal blocks of time—that forces you to confront the cost of doing them. It’s like turning a to-do list into a map. You see, right there, that if you do this, you probably won’t have time for that. And that’s the real trick. A to-do list is infinite. A calendar isn’t. This little system—three buckets and a calendar—keeps me honest. It reminds me that most things don’t belong in Now. And it makes me ask the one question that matters most: What will I actually spend time on this week? Because in the end, that’s the only work that gets done.