Category: Time Management

Clean Out Your Computer Day! How to Organize Email

Many people spend hours on email each day.  It is a key tool for communication, and to connect people within and between organizations. From an organization perspective, it is also used to record critical decisions, help people remember timelines and save critical files.

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Five Email Organization Strategies to Use Right Away

Email is a wonderful tool for both individuals and organizations, but when it becomes more of a burden and hassle than an asset, then it is time to pause and create a new email organization strategy.  Email should advance your personal goals and organization mission - not detract from or further complicate it. 

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Project Management and Holiday Time Management: Merrily Mastering the Moment

For many professionals, managing projects through the holidays is a challenge – keeping clients happy, keeping production running, while also caring for your team and your family is tough. Here are some tips for managing competing demands:

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Using Procrastination: A Time Management Tool During the Holidays

Let’s face it – most of us have a unique talent for procrastination! Instead of that difficult report, we work on email. Instead of having that difficult conversation, we call a friend. Instead of working on that status report, we do laundry or online shopping.

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Entering the Holiday with Energy and Eagerness: Managing Time Through the Holidays

Many people are approaching the end of 2021 with a sense that a New Normal may be emerging. Kids are back in school, families are gathering again, and businesses are settling into new telework and remote work patterns. At the same time, many are experiencing stress and challenges at work in managing supply chain challenges, and customers are finding that holiday shopping costs more and takes more time.

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Microlearning Course Design

When considering how to integrate new approaches—like microlearning—into your overall employee development efforts, it can be useful to get back to basics. In this article, we place microlearning within a broader training development structure. Let’s start at the broadest levels of training development: learning paths, curricula and courses. These learning…
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Microlearning Best Practices and Challenges

Microlearning is ready-made for the millennial generation: short segments of engagement—often online—that teach knowledge and advance skills. Here are some best practices and challenges for designing microlearning courses in your organization. Microlearning Best Practices If you are just starting microlearning in your organization, here are some best practices for course…
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Rediscovering Your Desk: Tips for Organization at Work

As you read this article, think about your desk. Many of us sit at it for hours in a day, but when was the last time you really thought about what’s on and in it?   Many tend to think of the desk as primarily a workspace, but often, that’s…
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Attacking the Day with Apps: Tips for Better Organization

There are many benefits of being better organized at work. With today’s technology, there are many apps to help you do it.  Rather than recommend specific apps, this article helps you think through the criteria for picking the apps that will best work for you. First, do you really want…
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Time Management for the Holiday Season – Starting with WHO

Many time management techniques, tools and tips start with your calendar and priorities – the goal is to schedule your top priorities, rather than having your calendar drive you. For most of the year, this works well – we have concrete goals to achieve, and limited time to achieve them…
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