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Add You - Dealing With Office Distractions, Part Two - Unnecessary Work
If you've ever attempted to make a group hotel booking, you'll know how difficult it can be. When it comes to business meetings or conferences in particular, mass hotel bookings can be particularly hard to co-ordinate. After all, it's likely that all the delegates attending the business meeting you're planning will be arriving from different parts of the country at different times; so how can you be sure all their rooms are secure? You'll also have to ensure that you have sufficient meeting space for your business delegates, as well as refreshments and audio/visual equi
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might
Interim management has traditionally been seen as a reactive response to organisational failure. Increasingly, a new breed of interims are emerging – people who regard interim management as a career and have transferable leadership skills to work across sectors. Building in organisational capacity to accommodate career interims ‘as part of the solution’ is discussed.Interim management saw rapid growth in the private sector in the 1990s. It experienced a decline as the downturn bit in 2000 but has shown signs of picking up in the last eighteen months. In the publi
Unnecessary Work
Unnecessary work is a silent productivity killer in the office environment. By unnecessary I don't mean that the work should never be done, but rather more important work should take precedent. These tasks are the small things, the "zero" time activities that can consume your work day if left unchecked. Some examples that come to mind include dealing with email, attending meetings and battling with common office applications.
There are three simple things that you can do to combat time leaching activities.
1. Get Disciplined
Email encroaching on your day? Here's a simple solution.... Stop checking it. Yes, you heard me right, stop checking your email. You can't read or reply to something you have never opened. Now before you jump into the antisocial deep end, allow me to qualify my statement. Stop reading and responding to email as soon as it comes in. Set specific times to read and respond to email. Resist the temptation to respond immediately, be disciplined. If you are using Outlook you might as well go in and also turn off the feature to notify you when a new message arrives. You don't care when a message arrives, you'll be checking email at five till the hour now. Email is like the bathroom door after Uncle Frank visits, it is best left unopened as long as possible.
2. Get Organized
One of the best ways to tackle marathon meetings is to be organized. If you are the organizer, come with a clear agenda and stick to it. Assign someone to be the time keeper. When an agenda item's time slot expires, move on. Be sure to note what was decided and discussed, but if the agenda calls for 15 minutes for the budget, then it should take 15 minutes. Maybe less, but not more. If you are not the organizer of a time waster meeting and just the victim, all is not lost. Call on the organizer to provide an agenda and time estimations. Stay on them until they show some organization in their actions.
Even with a well structured meeting you still may feel as though your time is being wasted. The root problem here may be that your presence may not be needed in the meeting. Besides identifying what should happen in a meeting, the organizer should also identify who will do what. Have the organizer provide a list of roles for the meeting, along with a list of required and optional attendees. It could be as simple as "Jane will give a budget update and John will give us a dry run of the Cunningham presentation" From this statement it is clear that both Jane and John must attend the meeting. Everyone else will play the role of listening to the budget update and being the audience for John. So if you know all about the budget and you have already heard the presentation five times, you probably aren't needed at the meeting, so don't attend. Score one for productivity.
3. Get Trained
Stop fighting your tools; Stop wasting time fighting the auto-format "feature" in Word, just ask some one for help. There are plenty of resources online and at your local bookstore on every major software package. You can also take a course on that problematic software at a community college. Ask around your office for help with the application. If it is a Microsoft Office product ask a friendly person with the title Administrative Assistant. They would be the underpaid, under appreciated people who know all and for whom in their absence the business would suffer a sudden and firery death. (If you can only remember one special event a year, don't remember your birth day or anniversary, remember June 4, Administrative Assistant Day. The admins of the world are nodding their heads right now in agreement...) Administrative assistants are a great resource and often know all the little tricks inside the Office applications. Be sure to not just barge in, they have other work to get done too. A friendly email would be a good place to start.
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might b
Most entrepreneurs from J. Paul Getty to the local cybernet caf? owner carry business loans. Not only are they usually necessary to start up and to grow a venture, they are often the best way to establish a sound credit rating. The best way to get a stellar credit rating is to take out a loan and to pay it off at slightly higher than the required amount with fastidiously punctual payments. But the combination of existing financial obligations taken together with the business debt that results from day to day activity can result in a problem that can spiral out of pro
2. Get Organized
One of the best ways to tackle marathon meetings is to be organized. If you are the organizer, come with a clear agenda and stick to it. Assign someone to be the time keeper. When an agenda item's time slot expires, move on. Be sure to note what was decided and discussed, but if the agenda calls for 15 minutes for the budget, then it should take 15 minutes. Maybe less, but not more. If you are not the organizer of a time waster meeting and just the victim, all is not lost. Call on the organizer to provide an agenda and time estimations. Stay on them until they show some organization in their actions.
Even with a well structured meeting you still may feel as though your time is being wasted. The root problem here may be that your presence may not be needed in the meeting. Besides identifying what should happen in a meeting, the organizer should also identify who will do what. Have the organizer provide a list of roles for the meeting, along with a list of required and optional attendees. It could be as simple as "Jane will give a budget update and John will give us a dry run of the Cunningham presentation" From this statement it is clear that both Jane and John must attend the meeting. Everyone else will play the role of listening to the budget update and being the audience for John. So if you know all about the budget and you have already heard the presentation five times, you probably aren't needed at the meeting, so don't attend. Score one for productivity.
3. Get Trained
Stop fighting your tools; Stop wasting time fighting the auto-format "feature" in Word, just ask some one for help. There are plenty of resources online and at your local bookstore on every major software package. You can also take a course on that problematic software at a community college. Ask around your office for help with the application. If it is a Microsoft Office product ask a friendly person with the title Administrative Assistant. They would be the underpaid, under appreciated people who know all and for whom in their absence the business would suffer a sudden and firery death. (If you can only remember one special event a year, don't remember your birth day or anniversary, remember June 4, Administrative Assistant Day. The admins of the world are nodding their heads right now in agreement...) Administrative assistants are a great resource and often know all the little tricks inside the Office applications. Be sure to not just barge in, they have other work to get done too. A friendly email would be a good place to start.
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might
One of the things I like about giving presentations to companies is meeting a new group of people and exchanging ideas with them. After a recent talk, several attendees and I had a great discussion about the power of branding.Later while changing my clothes, I was reminded how Levi Strauss & Company is one of the best in the business at branding. Just before I stuck my legs in the jeans I noticed a printed message on the outside of the inside flap of the pocket. From this short note, I’ve pulled three lessons that can maximize your brand.Be Diff
Even with a well structured meeting you still may feel as though your time is being wasted. The root problem here may be that your presence may not be needed in the meeting. Besides identifying what should happen in a meeting, the organizer should also identify who will do what. Have the organizer provide a list of roles for the meeting, along with a list of required and optional attendees. It could be as simple as "Jane will give a budget update and John will give us a dry run of the Cunningham presentation" From this statement it is clear that both Jane and John must attend the meeting. Everyone else will play the role of listening to the budget update and being the audience for John. So if you know all about the budget and you have already heard the presentation five times, you probably aren't needed at the meeting, so don't attend. Score one for productivity.
3. Get Trained
Stop fighting your tools; Stop wasting time fighting the auto-format "feature" in Word, just ask some one for help. There are plenty of resources online and at your local bookstore on every major software package. You can also take a course on that problematic software at a community college. Ask around your office for help with the application. If it is a Microsoft Office product ask a friendly person with the title Administrative Assistant. They would be the underpaid, under appreciated people who know all and for whom in their absence the business would suffer a sudden and firery death. (If you can only remember one special event a year, don't remember your birth day or anniversary, remember June 4, Administrative Assistant Day. The admins of the world are nodding their heads right now in agreement...) Administrative assistants are a great resource and often know all the little tricks inside the Office applications. Be sure to not just barge in, they have other work to get done too. A friendly email would be a good place to start.
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might
Do your clients know all that you do and have done? Are they proud and honored to have the privilege to work with you? Or are you a run of the mill everyday doctor that treats them in a quick and friendly manner, and then moves on to the next patient, not to be thought of again until their next ailment?When you share information about what is going on with YOU with your patients, they not only get a chance to know you, they get the opportunity to learn about you and tell their friends.The truth is people like to brag.People hire a coach - they brag
3. Get Trained
Stop fighting your tools; Stop wasting time fighting the auto-format "feature" in Word, just ask some one for help. There are plenty of resources online and at your local bookstore on every major software package. You can also take a course on that problematic software at a community college. Ask around your office for help with the application. If it is a Microsoft Office product ask a friendly person with the title Administrative Assistant. They would be the underpaid, under appreciated people who know all and for whom in their absence the business would suffer a sudden and firery death. (If you can only remember one special event a year, don't remember your birth day or anniversary, remember June 4, Administrative Assistant Day. The admins of the world are nodding their heads right now in agreement...) Administrative assistants are a great resource and often know all the little tricks inside the Office applications. Be sure to not just barge in, they have other work to get done too. A friendly email would be a good place to start.
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might
The notion of fashion in world exists from the Roman era. The difference is that the priority of the type of jewelry has been changing. Some years ago gold was popular while right now variety is the name of the game. Every person is capable of creating his or her own fashion statement. Nothing but attitude matters in the world of fashion. If you can carry yourself with ease whatever you are wearing, that way you are a fashionable person. It doesn’t matter if you are wearing a sparkling diamond or as simple as beaded jewelry, attitude is all that matters.Chang
Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actually fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.
In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your productivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might be up for that next raise.
Till next time.
--Wizkid
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