Posted by Maggie Langley, OfficeHounds Virtual Assistant Services on Tuesday, January 10, 2012,
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Productivity
If you want to make this a productive year, get control of your email.
Some scary stats
• “One of the biggest time-wasters reported by office workers is managing email. • 39% of office workers feel lost and even frustrated when it comes to organizing and managing email. • Over half of the participants surveyed said they receive up to 75 emails each and every day, and felt that a number of those emails were a result of being CC’d unnecessarily. • 48% of the respondents s...
Posted by Maggie Langley, OfficeHounds Virtual Assistant Services on Tuesday, January 10, 2012,
In :
Get organised
For many of us, email is a bad habit, a time killing addiction. We check it on our crackberry’s. We often stop what we’re working on to get our email fix.
Don’t play Email Russian Roulette with your work time.
I’ll quickly check my email. Then I’ll get started on that important task.
BANG – I can’t start that important task yet. I need to reply to this email.
We’re addicted to looking. Our brains love variety, but productivity demands focus and discipline. We’re add...
Posted by Maggie Langley on Friday, August 19, 2011,
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Top Dog Tip
1 Make 2 columns on a sheet of paper.
2 Label one column Task Was Essential to do Today. other Could have waited until Tomorrow.
3 Each time you complete a task no matter how small, mark it down in one of the columns. (If it's a particularly large task circle or highlight the mark. Then you can easily identify tasks that required more sustained concentration vs a quick task.) Anytime you complete a task related to an email (can be a reply or an action requested of you in an email), write down...
American ex-pat living in England with hubby & hounds. Love helping businesses to get organised and offload those time consuming tasks that my Virtual Assistants do efficiently.
American ex-pat living in England with hubby & hounds. Love helping businesses to get organised and offload those time consuming tasks that my Virtual Assistants do efficiently.
