What are you doing for lunch on Monday 12th November? How about 30 minutes of practical personal productivity tips and some best practice Microsoft Outlook usage right at your desk before you venture out for food? See the booking form below ...... I'm running a free, 30 minute online Executive Briefing at 12:00 on [...]
You can DELEGATE the creation of standard, often used text within emails to Outlook itself by using the Auto-correct functionality. I use the following method for short, often used email texts in my business. There is no limit to how many you can create – except, of course, the 80/20 rule is [...]
My thanks to my friend Ian Crocker for drawing my attention today to an interesting article on meetings written in the Daily Telegraph. You can find a link to the article below but here are 3 quick take-aways for you: […]
Almost every person, and certainly every business I work with, tells me that meetings are a big productivity drain that sucks the life out of getting things done within their demanding days. There are, of course, many ‘Meetings Heroes’ within these businesses. You know – they are the people who [...]
A big part of working smarter and more proactively is being willing to invest the productive overhead where it belongs – at the point of creation – so we can execute excellently at the point of delivery at some pre-determined time in the future. […]
Email signatures are very important for a number of reasons. Why, then, do so many people still do these crazy things with theirs? […]
‘The goal is not to work smarter – the goal is to work less and integrate work more successfully into the rest of our life’ Richard Maybury A handful of questions to remind you of some critical elements of Best Practice workload planning and management. What elements are you using? Every worthwhile [...]
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 [...]
Like you, I subscribe to a number of email newsletters that I consider to be inspirational, interesting or plain useful to me. Because the 80/20 Rule is ruthless, some are obviously more valuable than others. These are the ones I want to make time to feed upon. That means I [...]
Is there a ‘Best Way’ to triage yourself out of email overload? You already have an email management approach for these situations, (you do, after all, have a good track record in delivering your results at work). You already know that you need to make priority decisions quickly on your emails so you [...]
