Workers spend 41% of their time going through business email and find that 20% of that e-mail is non-urgent or important. It has also been estimated that workers loose at least 1 hour per day to “email interruptions.” In our
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Most everyone could use a little more time to concentrate, but the unending barrage of emails, instant messages, tweets, Facebook updates, and other distractions can make finding that precious time very difficult. One technique for creating concentration space is chunking,
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Choosing which demands on your time deserve your energy and redirecting yourself towards those tasks is an important time management skill. In our time management classes we recommend a tool for this called the “Brain Dump”. A Brain Dump is
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If a task is not actionable, it will fall into one of three categories. Trash- Throw it away and be bothered with it no more. Someday- If no action is required now but something may need to be done later,
Projects generally have more moving parts than tasks. Projects require a series of tasks and may have the complexity to justify project management techniques.Generally, the first two questions to ask with a project is, “What is the next action required?”
If the item is too simple, short, easy, or common to be a project, then the next question to ask is, “Will it take more than 2 minutes to do?” If the answer is no, then just do it right
Groups, just like individuals, have time management habits and skills. A group’s collective time management skills affect the members of that group in positive and negative ways. Groups with a good collective time management culture are effective in the same way
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Make your documents look professional and official by adding watermarks, instead of using rubber stamps. On the Design tab, in the Page Background group, click the dropdown menu for the Watermark command. Click the watermark that you want to use,
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Insert videos into your Word document by selecting the Insert tab, and clicking the Online Video command in the Media group. This will open a dialog box that helps you load the video. Search for videos by entering keywords in
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Have you ever wanted to hit a single key to repeat the last thing you did again and again as many times as you want? Then this tip is for you! Perform an action, like Bold, Delete, Insert, etc. Position
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