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Office365 November update impacts Outlook 2016 customisation – Free workaround

By |2018-09-05T16:51:38+01:00November 22nd, 2017|Leveraging Microsoft Outlook for time priority and workload management, Leveraging technology to improve productivity, Time Management and Prioritisation tips|

When I support clients in working smarter on their critical results and competing priorities I inevitably help them use technology smarter as well. Microsoft Office365 and Outlook are particularly important tools for my clients. Office365 is constantly being updated and extended and sometimes those updates [...]

Making Office 365 work better with other software tools

By |2017-07-19T17:24:47+01:00July 19th, 2017|Leveraging Microsoft Outlook for time priority and workload management, Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

Most of us who use Microsoft Office as a primary productivity business tool also use other software based tools or platforms which synchronise with Office, especially Microsoft Outlook. I’m thinking here about CRM tools, Client or Case Management systems and Project Management tools. This works really well until the latest [...]

Social Selling and the new LinkedIn Desktop – 3 pointers

By |2017-06-12T15:33:39+01:00December 8th, 2016|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

I have been working with sales people for decades on improving the way they define, defend and deliver their priorities within their demanding days. I also support sales people through our leadership influencing skills training. That said – I am not a ‘Sales’ trainer, although many of my associates are [...]

Are you ready for the new LinkedIn Desktop version?

By |2016-12-08T11:50:00+00:00November 15th, 2016|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

LinkedIn is making changes, again to their platform. The new version will probably be rolled out to everyone before month end. This impacts everyone who uses LinkedIn to build their business or their career. I suggest that, at the very least, you backup your hard crafted and curated LinkedIn data [...]

Linkedin Advanced Search being withdrawn from free accounts.

By |2016-12-08T11:51:02+00:00October 21st, 2016|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

Linkedin is continually improving its platform. Sometimes this means that really useful and popular elements are withdrawn from free account holders and made available to Premium, paying customers only. Advanced Search is one such feature and, according to a few friends, it will be withdrawn from free accounts very soon. [...]

How to stop Office 365 subscription automatically updating to Office 2016

By |2015-10-01T11:22:31+01:00September 23rd, 2015|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

On September 22, Microsoft released Office 2016 for all new Office 365 subscribers, whether they want it or not. That’s OK, Office is a great product and new subscribers will be looking at how Office 2016 will integrate with their existing productivity and workload management tools before renting. How about existing [...]

2 things you must do now with your Linkedin account

By |2015-07-29T07:56:20+01:00July 29th, 2015|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

LinkedIn’s recent U-Turn on YOUR contacts makes this important. Here are 2 important things you must be aware of and do something about if you want to work smarter with your LinkedIn account. This may have passed you by but a few days ago LinkedIn changed the way it allowed us to [...]

is my smartwatch better than Microsoft Band

By |2015-04-16T13:57:09+01:00April 16th, 2015|Leveraging technology to improve productivity|

Ho Hum. After what feels like a lifetime enabling people to master time, regain control, integrate their personal and work life better, reduce stress and generally become outstanding at welding their purpose to their priorities, I get around to releasing my first productivity product. […]

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