It has been a couple of weeks since I went public about a cool MS Outlook tool for recording time spent on priority and project workload so that you can see exactly how long you have worked on that particular project, deal or other piece of work. Since then people [...]
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 [...]
At this time of the year there is a tendency for the seeds of hope to sprout and grow more particularly than at other times. And hope competes more for attention in the cluttered landscape of our minds and our hearts. Hope for the promise of Christmas, hope for the potential [...]
My friend, strategist and the Thought Leader behind Genesis Management Consulting, Simon Gifford, pointed me to this HBR article the other day. I like a lot of the material Ron Ashkenas writes. He’s pretty focused on the practicalities of delivering critical results within demanding workloads when he focuses on his ‘Time Management’, ‘Productivity’ [...]
Continuing an ad-hoc series of expressions from my speaking, training and coaching services that clients call ‘Mayburyisms’. ‘Too late is too easy when we are too free with our time’ – Richard Maybury How often do you deliver a critical result by the skin of your teeth because others did [...]
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 [...]
Many people are annoyed with the fact that their Microsoft Outlook programme, running in Windows 7 will no longer allow a single click access to email attachments and the ‘Opening Mail Attachment’ dialog box has the option ‘Always ask before opening this type of file’ greyed out and unable to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
