Spring clean your desk and win

by Richard Maybury on April 19, 2013

Hey, spring has finally sprung. Time to spring clean and de-clutter our work environment, especially as you can win a £25 Amazon voucher in this competition by doing so. declutter your productivity platform

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How to Find unopened emails in Microsoft Outlook

by Richard Maybury on April 12, 2013

A client is committed to getting smarter with her Outlook management and is de-cluttering her inbox today and asked how she can view only unopened emails so she can run my email triage/action process on them.

It is simple. But not everyone knows. So here’s how … how to find unopened email in your inbox + folders

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Free online PDF Converter and creator

by Richard Maybury on April 12, 2013

If your PDF resource is limited to a free PDF Reader and/or a free PDF Printer, you are limited in what you can do with PDF files.

If you want to work smarter with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and many other programmes, especially in creating, editing and sharing information, you do need greater PDF functionality. You don’t have to fork out a lot of money for Adobe products (great though they are).

Here is a free PDF converter programme worth investigating…… free pdf converter + creator

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Livescribe has just released an additional smartpen to the UK market with built in Wifi and a direct connection with Evernote. So they now provide 2 options for turning everything we write and hear into digital records. Given that I am an enthusiastic user for my own productivity and managing my own competing priorities, I thought it might be useful to provide a quick overview of the Livescribe Wifi smartpen here. I will also post how I use it with Evernote later. key differences between Livescribe Wifi and Echo smartpens

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How to backup your Linkedin profile not just Connections

by Richard Maybury on March 13, 2013

I was talking with a client just now who did not know that she could backup her carefully crafted Linkedin profile, which she developed using my Linkedin Profile Polisher. Linkedin does not provide an automatic, one-click profile backup option. Simple way to backup your linkedin profile

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Making Time Management the Organization’s Priority

by Richard Maybury on February 18, 2013

A lot of my work recently has been dedicated to helping ambitious companies define and develop approaches to raise ‘Time management’ from an individual employee’s personal preference to a strategic organisational process. You can imagine my delight, then, when I read this headline in my January McKinsey Quarterly feed McKinsey organisational time management

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Microsoft’s recent study on the impact of Interruptions – infographic. What is your experience of interruptions at work? Do you recognise these numbers? Is your world of work easier or tougher than these averages? I’d love to know. impact of interruptions via Microsoft

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How to improve internal email and team working

by Richard Maybury on February 15, 2013

I was working with a client in France yesterday. We were working on the challenges of managing competing priorities, multiple projects, imminent  deadlines and – inevitably – the volume and quality of internal Microsoft Outlook email traffic.

We were looking at how we could improve internal team communications through better internal email discipline and one of the team blew me away with her insight, she said …… improve internal email communications

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Reflections on a funeral for a friend and some life priorities

by Richard Maybury on February 12, 2013

Within the maelstrom of meetings, emails and too much to do I attended a funeral for a friend last week, more a Thanksgiving really but still very sad.

Nothing newsworthy there, you have probably been to a few funerals too. What makes this so impactful for me is that it was the life of a 29 year old we were celebrating and giving thanks for. 5 lessons from a funeral for a 29 year old

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