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Everyday we are bombarded with numerous tasks. Our plates are usually overflowed with spaghetti-ed tasks. Sometimes, far too many that we alone can cope. How can we stay effective and productive then with so many tasks requiring our attention? The answer lies in two things: that is time and priority management. We know that we have limited amount of time in a day. Therefore, it’s essential to fully optimize ourselves for full effectiveness. Following is the 5 simple steps you can do to handle tasks effectively. Read the rest of this entry »
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On a contrary to popular belief, in our modern day, the person that can perform multitasking seemed to be the most productive person in office. On a daily basis you’ve got to work on multiple things at one go. We are bombarded from multiple projects at one shot. We get unplanned requests every day. What’s worst, there are already fewer people in most organizations than ever before, and most of us have more work heaped on us that before. So you are productive. Right? Read the rest of this entry »
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One of the biggest problems we are facing today is handling big quantities of information. Our technology and access to information is electrifying but it is a double-edged foil. It fills our minds and our lives with muddle. The challenge is to sort, filter, organize, drop and assimilate the big amounts of information we are exposed to on a day-to-day basis. So what are we to do? Here are a couple of things I have proven to help me manage my mail better. Read the rest of this entry »
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You may have just completed studies and begin working in your first job. You left your current company to pursue a greener pasture at other firms. You’ve got yourself transferred into another department of the same company. They’re (almost) similar where you are entering a new environment to work in. What will you do after you entered a new environment? Usually, you settled down to get accustomed to the culture, pace and people, right? And hope that you will be in line for promotion the next financial year. (But usually you’re not the one in line…) That’s pretty normal. Let’s try to speed things up a little by giving you pointers so that you start fast in the new environment! Read the rest of this entry »
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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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How do you play the game right to your advantage? How do you handle the Ball of Responsibility effectively? We’ve shown you that in a situation, you are actually playing ball games with our co-workers. Having the Me factor, you know your responsibilities. Having the Situation factor, you know the outcome and consequences. Earlier, we’ve mentioned that playing the game right, you can avoid being the victim of the blame chain. How do we do that? Read the rest of this entry »
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We’ll going to introduce to you a powerful concept today that will boost personal productivity from personal survivability. Personal survivability aims to have a neutral effect at your end. Personal productivity in this situation is that you handled the situation properly with awareness of the responsibilities and, reduce or eliminate the consequences on your side. Have you ever wonder why you are always at the end of the food chain of responsibility blame? Why aren’t the others being held responsible for? Why are you always the victim? Read the rest of this entry »
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