Have you ever been on the receiving end of this type of poor email management? I have just put the phone down on a support call for a client who raised this issue from his inbox and worload management immediately prior to our call. It is hard to believe that a [...]
A very quick reflection on our management of our sales conversations, having just put the phone down on such an outbound call. I have learnt over the years that there is rarely a ‘Good time’ to talk about raising the priority of training (or anything else of value) with people. I [...]
‘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 [...]
Continuing an ad-hoc series of expressions from my speaking, training and coaching services that clients call ‘Mayburyisms’. ‘The only thing we can truly manage is where we choose to put our focus and our energy moment to moment and our focus creates our reality’ – Richard Maybury We don’t have [...]
Clearly this is not about a menu dilemma. It is, however, about dilemmas and difficulties, especially as we get more busy and pressure mounts. It seems, from many conversations recently that a lot of people are looking to tame their procrastination behaviour for 2011 …. and are looking to me to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
