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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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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Have you double-booked meetings?

How often do you find yourself having to cancel meetings at the last minute because you realise you’re double-booked or have a diary clash? At what point do you realise you’ve ended up with a clash of appointments, meetings or commitments? Is it when: you go to the meeting that’s in your diary and get…

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Planners and Journals

Planners and Journals

Do you use a planner or journal? Planners and journals are so much more than just a diary. They often include pages and layouts for goals, checklists, daily planning. Enabling you to organise your day, your work and your life. Even though I’m technically minded, I love the organic nature of using pen and paper for my…

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Start Your Day With A Morning Routine

Morning Routine

Whether it’s a daily ritual of your morning tea or coffee, reading the papers, meditation or a morning run, how you start your day is important. A good morning routine will help you to be more organised, more productive and more focused for the rest of the day. Here are a few ideas to get…

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Extreme ways to deal with email!

Dealing with email

Going away on holiday and you dread returning to thousands of emails in your Inbox? Are you receiving hundreds of emails on a daily basis? If you don’t have the luxury of having someone else manage your email for you while you’re away, here are a few of the more extreme ways I’ve heard senior…

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The right to flexible working

right to flexible working

From June this year all employees in the UK (who’ve been employed for 6 months) now have the right to request flexible working. Just because they can, doesn’t mean they will or that it suits every employee or business. Don’t panic – this could be great for your business. Flexible working allows people to work…

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And now it’s Wimbledon

Wimbledon life balance

I might not have been glued to the World Cup but now Wimbledon is on – I have something to watch. There’s potentially more of an impact to office productivity, because the games are on during the working day. Here’s how I organise my time when I can, so that I can watch a few…

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World Cup Productivity

World Cup Productivity

England may be out of the 2014 World Cup but business goes on as usual … or does it. With big sporting events there’s a desire to get involved and this can have a significant impact on business and productivity. What effect have you already seen on your business in the first  two weeks of…

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Is lack of sleep affecting your performance?

Sleep and productivity

… and your health? We all know the importance of sleep but more and more these days, people are getting less and less and feeling the effects. Whether you’re just putting in long hours at the office; running your own business outside of your full-time job; working at two jobs or just have a hectic…

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