Manage your meetings more effectively

manage more effective meetings

Whether they’re online or face-to-face, busy professionals attend up to 60 meetings a month! They’re one of the biggest sources of wasted time, frustration and stress. It’s easy to end up with back-to-back meetings or to overbook or even double book your time. Especially if you don’t have a strategic approach to how you manage…

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Getting back to the office

getting back to the office

Working from home has become more common over the last two years. Decades ago, when I was working in the corporate world, remote working started to be introduced and actively encouraged in many industries and sectors. The technology at the time was archaic in comparison. There were dial-up modems, security dongles to log in to…

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Why you need to stop multi-tasking and start solo-tasking

Solo-tasking is the new multi-tasking but multi-tasking doesn’t work.  Why you multi-task or what you tell yourself when you’re multi-tasking is you …  get more done in the time if you can do two things at once … are so busy you have to do more than one thing at a time if you want…

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Plan for the unexpected

Even when you’re on top of your planning, the unexpected can happen and the best laid plans can go awry. The reality of life is that it has a tendency to happen and often in a way you don’t expect. Life and work can throw you a curve ball and send you off track at…

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How to leave work on time and stop working late

Running late

It’s Friday, you’ve had a busy week and you really want to be leave work on time but you still have a ton of work to do. It’s too easy to get into the habit of working late. Keeping going until you’ve finished everything on your to-do list. But that’s not a great habit to…

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How to plan a more productive week

How to plan your ideal week

5 Steps to stop feeling overwhelmed Plan Your Week Stop feeling overwhelmed, being hijacked by too many meetings with no time for your to-do list. Start taking control of your schedule, planning time for your meetings AND time for what’s on your to-do list. Sign-up to Plan Your Week and I’ll share with you a step-by-step…

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Finding Time For Multiple Businesses

Given the recent discussions in the media around multiple businesses and second jobs, I was invited to appear on LBC Radio to discuss some of the practicalities. Can you have a second job or do it effectively? Many of the people I talk to and work with have second jobs or are running multiple businesses, either…

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Finding time for your Life Admin

finding time for your life admin tasks

A Life Admin Day is a day when you take time out from work to get all the things done in your life that you don’t usually have time for. They’re usually essential but not important. More personal than work related. This could also include getting those things off the list that have been lurking…

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Create Meaningful Goals

How to set meaningful goals

I’m often asked questions about setting goals. How important are they? What sort of goals do I need? How do I go about creating goals? Yes, having goals, aims or objectives, call them what you like, IS important. To challenge and give you something to aim for. They help you to prioritise your time and…

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Mind-mapping

Book Review on Mind Mapping

I’ve used mind-maps for years. Ever since I discovered them while studying for an Open University degree. They’re an quicker, easier, more visual way to take notes, revise and recall information. When you attend a meeting you can end up jotting down pages of linear notes. Using mind mapping techniques you can create just one…

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