The weird and wonderful thing about habits
Now this is weird – and it has happened half a dozen time in the past 15 minutes, so there is something going on here. And I think it proves an important productivity point. […]
Delegate standardised email message creation to Microsoft Outlook
You can DELEGATE the creation of standard, often used text within emails to Outlook itself by using the Auto-correct functionality. I use the following method for short, often used email texts in my business. There is no limit to how many you can create – except, of course, the 80/20 rule is [...]
3 Reasons why Internal Email can be a costly productivity pirate
I have said it many times before – and in the light of current news from various organisations, including Atos , who has already reduced the number of internal emails by 20 percent in six months, as well as recent experiences direct from some of my clients – it needs to be said again. [...]
Office Outlook for Mac 2011 time management support part 2
As mentioned in my earlier post on driving Microsoft Office through a Mac , I am looking for good resources for Mac users who find themselves in Microsoft environments. I have just come across this good overview from Paul Mew, Technical Director at ramsac . If you know of any other resources that [...]
Office Outlook for Mac 2011 time management support
I am seeing an increase in the number of questions from our client’s people who have opted to use an Apple Mac and iPhone / iPad within a Microsoft Exchange environment. They have challenges in bringing the full functionality of their firm’s systems, software and productivity tools to bear on their chosen [...]
How to make multiple Outlook appointments private
Sometimes when you are sharing Outlook calendars you don’t want your colleagues to see full details on your existing calendar commitments even though you appreciate the benefits of a collaborative team working approach to your mutual priority management activities. […]
Working smarter with Microsoft Outlook through hyperlinks
A big part of working smarter and more proactively is being willing to invest the productive overhead where it belongs – at the point of creation – so we can execute excellently at the point of delivery at some pre-determined time in the future. […]
Working smarter with email signatures
Email signatures are very important for a number of reasons. Why, then, do so many people still do these crazy things with theirs? […]
Create an Outlook Contact from an Outlook Email in one click
Outlook Contacts are a great place to drive high priority information about key contacts into and drive priority workload out of, with a link back to the contact itself. It is clearly Best Practice relationship and workload management to use our contact database well. So, how can you create an Outlook [...]
Priority time tracking and management in MS Outlook
It has been a couple of weeks since I went public about a cool MS Outlook tool for recording time spent on priority and project workload so that you can see exactly how long you have worked on that particular project, deal or other piece of work. Since then people [...]