If good time tracking, recording and time management are a priority for you in your overall workload management approach, then you may be interested in this tool – especially if you use Microsoft Outlook. The fully featured free trial records exactly how you spend your time at your computer, which [...]
I’ve been working a lot with Managers and Leaders recently who struggle with the 4 competing demands of: 1 Leading and developing their direct reports, 2 Doing higher level work (often escalated or complex where their particular experience is required), 3 Forecasting/reporting/management admin, and – finally – 4 Working hard [...]
Are you ever annoyed or frustrated that your previous productivity with Microsoft Office 2003 is hampered as you work out how to do things in Office 2007 or 2010 that you did instinctively in Office 2003? …. Especially when you are working with Word, Excel or PowerPoint commands that you don’t [...]
When it comes to managing our purpose, our goals, multiple projects, competing priorities and the tsunami of to-dos, emails and other communications that tumble out of them, I am relatively ‘Tool Agnostic’. Sure, a lot of our client work focuses on helping their people implement and sustain best practice workload management [...]
One of the really useful email productivity enhancements in Microsoft Outlook 2010 is the Social Connector and the People Pane functionality that is built into the software. In a generous move, Microsoft has made this functionality available free to Outlook 2003 and 2007 users via [...]
Here’s a real quick communication management tip applied to Microsoft Outlook and driven through your email inbox. OK, so you get an email from a work colleague who is not sitting near you and who you haven’t seen around the office yet (Most of your emails do come from your colleagues don’t [...]
Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010 automatically adds a flagged email to your ‘To Do List’ in your Tasks folder. This includes old email items (including archived) from Outlook 2003 when you upgraded. How do you get rid of these legacy flagged email tasks without deleting the original emails? How do you bulk [...]
Continuous process improvement is a key element of smarter working. Here’s a 10 second personal productivity tip that will save you hours from here on in. I accept that Microsoft certainly improved the native Search function in these releases over Outlook 2003 and earlier versions. I think it does involve [...]
It doesn’t matter if you have got too much business to cope with at the moment or if you are working hard to bring more in; the ruthless reality for most people right now is that it takes an awful lot more work to achieve the results we were used [...]
It is so difficult to be proactive when most of the default settings in Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and other productivity tools reinforce and reward reactive behaviours. This is unfortunate because, as proactive people, we want to work smarter with Outlook, Notes or whatever tools we have in front of [...]
