Posts Tagged ‘prioritising’
The Power of Your First Work Hour
What we do in the first hour sets the tone for the working day. I heard this suggested so I put it to the test. When delivering training or speaking at an event the time is allocated, whereas on “office” days I can freely plan.. I’m not a morning person so “office” days start slowly [...]
The P in Professional Part 1
Are you clear on what you think professional means? I bet you are. But recently I’ve been made aware of vastly differing definitions of “professional.” From the Oxford dictionaries, the relevant definition of professional as an adjective is: Worthy of, or appropriate to, a professional person; competent, skilful, or assured:his professional expertise their music is both memorable and professional [...]
The extra mile without extra work
We know the phrase “Going the extra mile” – but what does it really mean? When did someone last go the extra mile for you? Here are some recent examples – A well-known supermarket gave me a gift card to cover the fuel costs of having to return to the store 3 times to replace [...]
Email: How being more systematic may make you smile
Helpful email habits: Making email work for you, rather than it making you work. Email was intended as a fast communication medium, suggesting that it would make life speedier and therefore easier. Unfortunately that isn’t always the case as we experience high volumes of work emails and often from almost-unknown “faces”. And email is as [...]