Do you have e-mail overload? To many people the simple answer is “yes”.

To be the best that you can be, your organisation systems need to be simple and highly efficient. Continue reading E-mail overload ruining your working day? An amazingly simple e-mail inbox management system that gives you back control.

We are all in control of how we spend our time. After all, it’s our life and we are the ones making decisions on how we spend each and every minute of each day.

But in reality, most of us fritter away our time on many different things that truly add no real benefit to our lives.

We live in an unprecedented age of information technology. The internet and “social media” now means we could all spend 24/7 working through the mountain of information that invades our lives from every conceivable angle. If you don’t believe this – just take a look around you on the train, in the coffee shop. How many people are using the “window to the world” that is the smartphone?

With all these new distractions adding to the “old fashioned” attention grabbers of incoming phone-calls, e-mails and colleagues asking for your time – it’s no wonder anyone can actually get any meaningful work completed. So – let’s look at some easy to use ideas to double your daily productivity:

Practical Time Management ideas:

• The No1 advice is to be in control of your working day. You make the decisions on how to spend your time, don’t let events overly influence you. So – don’t take that phone call, don’t look at that e-mail, don’t deal with that colleague until it’s the right time for you. It’s not 100% possible to do this, but if you work at improving your control over your time the results will be remarkable. Continue reading Timestealers – overcome your time management demons and double your productivity.

Most of the high achievers in any walk of life tend to have a long-term career plan as the foundation to help them achieve their career goals. If this is career focused, then it will likely be a staged process with certain “milestones” achieved, perhaps by a certain age. One common target we hear is “I want to be a Director by the time i’m 40.”

Irrelevant of what industry or profession you work in, to optimize your career and maximize yourself you need to plan your career. This doesn’t have to be detailed; it can simply be an overall target which is then broken down into key stages or “milestones”. For example – if you aspire to get to Managing Director level by a certain age; it’s unrealistic that this is going to happen if you have no man management experience 5 years before your target – so make sure you get to manage people in good time to gain the requisite experience.

Continue reading Having a long-term career plan is critical. If you don’t have a plan how do you achieve your career goals?

A simple post this week on observations of successful people. Enjoy:

Continue reading The common traits of successful people.