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Previously, we listed simple tips to communicate effectively with emails. They are the basics of effective emailing that starts from Me. Getting things right at the personal level that generally applies to any recipient. Now you want to be extra sensitive to the etiquettes of emailing. You want to be correct with the things sent to your recipients. You want to further improve the effectives of your emails. We’ve got you another list of effective email tips that will take you to the next level. The tips are not as straight-forward as before but they are still achievable. It just needs time to habituate and you will eventually internalize into your mental processing when you write emails. Read the rest of this entry »
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Just back a couple of days ago, one of my colleagues, Mary (not her real name), approached me and asked me, how John (another colleague of the same team) and I work faster than she does. She is impressed about how efficient and productive we are as compared to her. This thought was actually fueled by the fact that she was “black-listed” by our boss of being slow in work and unable to deliver the correct things since she joined our team. I term it “bad limelight”. Things got worst with her being senior than me. Well, I’m not that impressive but I just give her my piece of advice to her, show her some ways of working around things and hopefully get her on the right track. Read the rest of this entry »
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In this modern era, we are communicating in emails and SMSes. Especially in our workplace, email is pervasive that we cannot avoid looking our mailbox (not mentioning the Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail). We still have to use it in our everyday work. At times, it’s a headache to communicate information or instructions to our recipients. Things just didn’t work out right. Sometimes, emails just bounce back and forth with only minor clarifications. It’s frustrating right?! So, how do you communicate effectively? How do you want the email to effectively inform the other party and deliver the correct results? Read the rest of this entry »
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Having known all the personal awareness quadrants and combination is insufficient to achieve maximum personal productivity. However, each of the combination may fall into their own traps if we do not pay attention of it. You might not even notice that you are in the trap! You need to do more! You need to sharpen all your personal awareness, especially the positive ones, reduce the negative ones and improve our personal productivity! Read the rest of this entry »
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The positive personal awareness leads us to personal productivity by directing positive energy to how we think. Empowering our minds that everything is “do-able” and “manageable”. On the other hand, the negative personal awareness encloses us in a negative whirlpool of thoughts. Limiting the potential within us or even misleading us to the wrong objectives, further away from achieving personal productivity. Read the rest of this entry »
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Knowing yourself is important. Having known that personal awareness, being the Me factor contributes to personal productivity, now let’s take a deeper a look at why personal awareness is a key factor to personal productivity. We begin with the positive personal awareness combination from what we mentioned in Boosting Your Personal Awareness by Knowing Yourself. Recall the four personal awareness quadrants? “I know what I can do”, “I know what I cannot do”, “I do not know what I can do” and “I do not know what I cannot do”? Read the rest of this entry »
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How do we improve personal productivity at work? Recall that personal productivity is an equation of Me, You and Situation? We want to work on the Me factor. Personal productivity starts from the individual’s awareness or as we term it Personal Awareness. Personal Awareness is based on how our mental model works. Your mental model setups mental boundaries, predict the outcome or process of work. Our personal awareness (surrounding the Me) can be characterized into four quadrants. Read the rest of this entry »
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To achieve optimal personal productivity, one must be aware of himself, the situation as well as the other party. Who are the other party? They can be your co-workers, bosses, director, vendor, etc. in a workplace context. We can also describe personal productivity as an awareness of three things: Me, You and Situation. This is not something special and it had been mentioned in Sun Tzu’s Art of War quote: Read the rest of this entry »
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