As we manage demanding workloads, juggle multiple projects and manage competing priorities, email is always near the top of the list of productivity challenges that most of us face every day. Whilst it can be a productivity enabler, it is more often cited as the biggest contributor to information overload and the insidious destroyer [...]
You need regular access to a particular folder within your Windows XP computer or network library to do your work or file new emails. You don’t want to navigate your way through the folder system (especially on the network!) each time. Here’s how to achieve that with Outlook 2007 on [...]
You need regular access to a particular folder within your computer or network library to do your work or file new emails. You don’t want to navigate your way through the folder system (especially on the network!) each time. Here’s how to achieve that with Outlook 2007. […]
I can’t tell you how many times I am asked to ‘pronounce’ on the ‘Best Outlook Inbox Folder Structure’ when we run training programmes. It’s a question I answer this way…. […]
I have been using Spinvox memo service on my smart phones and BlackBerry for years when on the run between meetings. It turns my spoken word into an email I can process when I get back to my laptop. I have found it more productive than fiddling with a stylus or punching out words [...]
Would you like Microsoft Outlook to automatically file emails you send into your chosen folders? Our reputational and commercial risk is recorded more in our ‘sent’ emails than in our received mails. Many people have elaborate Outlook folder structures to file received emails, yet they pile their sent mails in [...]
A quick word of warning, which will be particularly important for you or people you know who use IM informally in business, especially if working within smaller companies. […]
Let’s face it; ‘Information Overload’ has been a headline issue for ‘Knowledge Workers’ for at least 10 years. It’s no longer ‘News’ it is just a Fact. So! What to do with this fact of life? I’m going to highlight a few pointers on email management and task / workload [...]
All you and I can truly manage in a demanding day is where we choose to put our focus and energy moment to moment. The default Outlook email alarms and alerts conspire to interrupt this focus every time a new mail arrives. […]
We’ve all been there! We have just hit ‘Send’ and realised we forgot to attach the file, addressed it to the wrong ‘Peter Smith’, remembered too late that we did not include an important point, or even – God forbid – had second thoughts about sending the mail at all, especially [...]
