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 [...]
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 [...]
This is a great book. Its been around for a while and has inspired a number of good people to do some great things with their businesses and careers. My colleague and collaborator, Richard Munden wrote a great bullet point summary (he is the kind of guy who values getting straight [...]
‘Hell is the daily tsunami of CC emails that I have to manage! Is there a way to automate a response so I don’t have to take any action when I’m triaging them?’ That was the cri de coeur from one of the people on [...]
I hope that, whilst you may have felt a little mad at times, you are not certifiably insane. I felt like I was going mad back in the day when I was ‘learning’ to windsurf, more of which later. Wondering why is it difficult to bridge the gap between what we ‘know’ [...]
You are juggling operational work with projects, strategy and ambitions every day. You are doing this in your professional work life and your personal life. That’s 6 dimensions of time management before you even get to differentiating between the competing priorities within each dimension and the inevitable email torrent that [...]
How are we doing against what we decided was important for the year? Whether we strategise solo, or insularly within our own team / business or expansively with outside support, the strategic thinking that we commit to a document is simply a story. It can be an engaging Ripping Yarn or [...]
I had a great experience with UPS last week. It highlights practical business truths and is worth retelling here. We had to get a high priority shipment of training manuals to an international office of one of our clients. We booked the shipment, created the waybills and booked the collection [...]
If you want to give proper priority to, and build management and control around, your resolutions for 2012 you will stand a better chance of achieving them when you state them as positive actions. […]
I really enjoy running the IoD People Forum for Surrey and am looking forward to our 2012 season. The Forum has been developed and designed to be particularly helpful for business Owners, Directors and Managers who have direct employee responsibility, to human resource and learning & development practitioners, to employment lawyers [...]
