Business
After the workshop is over …
You’ve just come back from a really inspiring workshop – full of great ideas and you have a list of all the tips and information you’ve absorbed, enthused with all the things you’re going to do and change. You get home – it’s been a long day, so you grab a bite to eat, switch…
Read MoreYou don’t have to answer it
How often do you call someone on the phone whether on their landline or more often their mobile and having answered it, they then say they can’t talk … they’re busy … with someone … in the middle of something? I hear it quite often. If that’s the case, you don’t have to answer the…
Read MoreThe myth of Inbox zero
Email is one of the top things that gets in the way of being productive – although it’s a tool in itself, it’s also a source of great time wasting. Not only because of the shear volume of emails you receive on a daily basis but because of the time you spend dealing with it.…
Read MoreUsing multiple email addresses to manage your email
These days it’s so easy to set up an email address that makes sense to have multiple email addresses for different reasons. Using multiple email addresses is also a good way to sort and organise you email. I’d definitely recommend using online email addresses and not limiting yourself to your internet provider. That way if…
Read MoreWhy you need multiple domain email addresses
Use different domain email addresses to filter and sort your email. Info@ is always useful and acts as a default for your website. Most websites will let you create at least 10 different email addresses. Even if you’re a small business it can be useful to have more than just the one. sales@ – for…
Read MoreHow to keep a meeting to time.
How often have you experienced this situation? You’ve arranged a meeting for an hour and then the meeting somehow manages to run on for another half hour or sometimes longer. You don’t want to be rude or call a halt at a critical point, so what’s the best way to handle it? Set the duration…
Read MoreNetworking Tip #24 Quality or Quantity
There often seem to be two main debates on networking and your contact lists – the “Quality vs Quantity” debate and this applies to most of the main social media sites. Some people purely play the numbers game and go for Quantity – regardless of the quality of the contacts and are unlikely to develop…
Read MoreIneffective Cold Calling
Cold-calling – two words that fill most people with dread – either making those calls or being on the receiving end of them. Having just been on the receiving end of a yet another cold-call, one of the things that annoys me most is when having established that it is actually you on the line…
Read MoreHow to manage those last minute deadlines
Do you sometimes feel that your time management would be great – if only it wasn’t for everyone else? You’re working on improving your own productivity, you’ve changed some of your own bad habits but other people around you are still making demands on your time and it’s not helping. They still come up with…
Read MoreWhen two heads are better than one
I had a conversation the other day with a client who had a tricky problem they’d been thinking about for a while but were stuck with what to do or how to move forward. However, in a few minutes and after asking a few relevant and thought provoking questions, it’s possible to clear a way…
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