Do you log on in the morning and within moments of seeing your Inbox start to feel as though your day is spiralling out of control? A burgeoning inbox can be such a heavy weight on your shoulders – a niggling reminder that there is still so much to do, a silent fear that you may be missing something important. Every [...]
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We all love to be wanted and I know how easy it is to become attached to the beep or little blue Outlook bubble that lets you know new email has arrived. I also know how hard it is to resist taking a peek to see who it’s from. But – it’s a distraction. Instead of [...]
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Not all rules are made to be broken – in fact, some rules will save you enormous amounts of time and frustration. If you use Microsoft Outlook you’ll be delighted by the time saved once you learn how to use Rules. (If you are a Mac user, check your Help menu for specifics – I [...]
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Do you ever get emails that aren’t relevant to you? Or copied in on emails that have a long list of addressees that don’t need to be there? It can be so frustrating when you have a full workload and hours of your time each week are wasted on unnecessary emails. In my book Getting [...]
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It amazes me how many companies depend on email as a tool to effectively carry out their work but give little or no proper training on how to use it! This is fundamental stuff, guys – email is now one of the most basic of business tools. Does your company provide preliminary training when you first [...]
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For your next 6 blog posts we’ll look at 6 short, easy-to-follow tips that might help you if you’ve got an Email Beast crowding your mind (and your Inbox!). When email was introduced to the workplace it was intended to help us work more effectively, but the reality is that it’s taken over many of [...]
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Well Folks, this is the last post in our delegation mini-series. I’ve been delighted hearing back from those of you who have started implementing some of the delegation tips we have discussed. But I know that some of you are still struggling to delegate and let go of simple tasks that you really don’t need [...]
As we get close to the end of this small series of delegation tips I’m going to let you in on what I commonly call The Killer Question - ”do you understand?” Get this phrase out of your vocabulary! It is such a closed question and leaves the listener to only answer with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Only [...]