Organization
How to exorcise your demons of disorganization
Posted in Productivity Wednesday
Time is money, the adage goes, and lots of money gets lost in being disorganization. Disorganization is so prevalent in the workplace that the Professional Organizers in Canada estimates a typical office worker wastes 150 hours a year - almost one month - searching for misplaced information. For someone earning $50,000 a [...]
6 quick tips for managing paper
Posted in Productivity Wednesday
Close your eyes and picture the Zen-like state of your desk in a paperless world. When you need data from the last quarter, you speak to your computer and a soothing voice responds with the information. When it’s time to pay the bills, you instruct your computer where the payments are to [...]
Bits and Pieces - August 3
Make your presentations stickier: these 3 books can help – Garr Reynolds culls some tips for “crafting messages that are simple, effective, and ‘sticky,’” from three non-presentation books.
Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero” presentation at Google
The Enormous Gmail Productivity List – a long list of features, extensions, scripts and apps that can make you more productive with Gmail.
Organizing Home [...]
Taking a brain dump
GearFire is taking a look at the question of “writing everything down” within the GTD process. I posted this short time-management tip previously:
Write it down
Unless you have very little to do or the tasks you have are highly repetitive, you cannot depend on your brain to recall everything that needs doing. The things that [...]
Get organized for back to school
I know, I know, school is only just finished and it’s early days of summer. Isn’t it a little early to be thinking about back to school? Well… yes. On the other hand, you’ll need to start getting things ready in five or six weeks, so it’s not that far away.
Do yourself a favour. Bookmark [...]
Tips for holding productive meetings
Unproductive meetings: most people would think we could do without the adjective. Meetings can easily be unproductive and a waste of time. At one time or another, all of us have attended meetings that were not productive. If we were really honest, many of us have called a few meetings that were a waste of time.
Unfortunately, meeting [...]
Tips for leaving a good out-of-office message
I’ve had some fun with out-of-office messages for e-mail. However, a well-prepared message can go a long way to maintaining productivity while you’re away from the office.
A good out of office message has three parts:
Dates of your absence. Let the contact know when you are out of the office. It helps them decide what their [...]
Bits and Pieces - June 22
David Allen: The master of getting things done – What he is really selling is a thought process designed to help people keep track of the endless tasks of modern life — whether buying birdseed or closing a billion-dollar merger. People who commit to his step-by-step program, Allen claims, will not only gain control of their [...]
2 Key measures of effective productivity systems
that I learned from my mother.
When the Instigator blog was compiling tips for The Ultimate Guide to Productivity I posted my best tip, use the productivity system that works for you.
“There are people that make getting ready to get things done an art form. They have the slickest looking DayTimers, the latest PDAs and the most powerful software, [...]
Dealing with being late
Susan Sabo of Productivity Café has an article at lifehack.org on the differences between those who know how to show up on time and inefficient, ineffective people.
Here are the negative associated with people that arrive late:
* Latecomers are holding up others and hurting the productivity of everyone who has to wait* Latecomers are demoralizing [...]
