I’ve recently had the privilege of speaking at the national conference of TravelManagers Australia, a subsidiary of New Zealand’s House of Travel. Kim Mason, one of their top agents, is a young mum in Sydney and yet she runs her travel business in about 20 hours a week. Given that travel is usually a very [...]
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Here are some top time tips to get students to return newsletter and permission slips asap: Encourage a ‘rewards’ system so that the children take responsibility for returning them the next day – an end of term tally perhaps? (NO punishments though!) Mention what is required in the weekly newsletter, with a due date. Replies [...]
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My son Chris and his family were posted for 2 years to one of the largest military bases in Australia. Writing from there my daughter-in-law, Hayley, shares the following story of bureaucratic time wasting. On getting a licence The other day I went into Seymour (their nearest town) to get my Victorian drivers’ licence. I was armed [...]
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What do lawyers, accountants, quantity surveyors, consultants to many industries, secretarial services, project managers, government bodies, researchers and computer programmers have in common? Most of them hate to do time-sheets. If you’ve ever worked in a time-driven industry you’ll know that tight recording is absolutely critical or how would you know what to charge [...]
In the latest issue of our Ezine (#127 http://www.gettingagrip.com/ttt/TimeTip127.asp) we proudly announced the launch of our new Membership Programme: the Getting A Grip Inner Circle. You can take a look at what we’ve done by visiting www.gettingagrip.com/products/membership.asp It has been a challenging and exciting project -thus creating a very busy few weeks! Probably the most [...]
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First the brickbat – to Yellow [ex Yellow Pages] I try not to complain too much about things – it’s usually a waste of energy – but Yellow NZ deserve a brickbat in what they’ve done to our previously really useful Directory Service. (I nearly threw the brick at Telecom but apparently they sold to [...]