Email Marketing mistakes
Just received this marketing email from a well known insurance company. Someone should have proof read before hitting send to their client database!
3 indispensable #productivity apps
It was towards the end of a recent TeamTalk I was delivering, within an initiative my client calls ‘Staying ahead of the curve’. We were covering the whole gamut of attitudes, skills and behaviours around personal productivity and working smarter. Inevitably, the topic of leveraging technology to drive priority decisions [...]
Loneliness of the lone ranger worker
Maybe it is the relative quietness of mid-August in my business cycle, or that 2 recent Workplace reports caught my attention more than they would in the maelstrom of September and beyond, but recently I have been reflecting on Isolation in business. It could also have something to do with [...]
What tools are you using to manage your priorities, projects and goals?
Quite naturally, many of the conversations I have been engaged in since the start of the year have focused on new goals, projects and priorities for the year ahead and how best to manage them when life is already busy. My son, Mike, was speaking with me about this recently [...]
3 critical body language influencing skills for young people at their first job interviews
I was asked the other day what my Top 3 Influencing tips for young people attending interviews for the first time would be. I wrote this specifically for young people so if you know any who are looking for a job right now pass this on to them. These are [...]
Thank you and 3 wishes for Christmas 2012
I wish you and everyone special to you a Christmas that: Refreshes beyond the best, biscuity chilled champagne Resonates deeper than the click-click-whirrr of the shopping till when buying your most thoughtful gifts for the most important people in your life Remains with you well beyond 12th Night and reinforces you [...]
SME volunteering opportunities
SME Owners, Partners and Directors who are looking to make Volunteering opportunities available to their staff and themselves as simply as possible might find this useful. […]
On half decent jobs
Ridiculously busy is the new normal. Too much to do is the new normal. Managing multiple priority conflicts is the new normal. 'Everyone with a half-decent job has a job and a half to do' - Richard Maybury That's why it is so important to polish up our priority, workload [...]
Handwriting Goes Mobile with Livescribe Echo and Evernote
Back in September last year I wrote about why the Echo smartpen has replaced my Mont Blanc and how it helped me improve my productivity and work smarter when integrated with my other productivity tools like Microsoft Outlook. I love the way it is not just about taking notes, it is about [...]
New Linkedin Profile build October 2012
Hi all, you will soon see that Linkedin is rolling out the new Profile building option on a phased, invited basis. In answer to a few questions from a few friends and clients, Yes, key elements of my current Linkedin Professional Polishing guide are still relevant if you act on them [...]