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The Productivity Holy Grail

Posted by Maggie Langley on Thursday, May 10, 2012, In : Productivity 
 How to choose productivity tools that get the job done
 
 
Every business has to manage information. 

The Essentials
Contacts
Calendars / diaries
Email

The Usuals

Invoices
Tasks / To Do Lists

The Should Haves
Social Media
Time Tracking
Shared space for Team 

The Advanced
Ticketing system
Gant Chart
Project Management system
Real time collaboration tools

Although every business needs to use some kind of tool like Outlook or Google Apps to manage The Essentials, choosing the best productivity tools depends on the...

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How to make 2012 a more productive year

Posted by Maggie Langley, OfficeHounds Virtual Assistant Services on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, In : 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...

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Are you playing Email Russian Roulette with your time?

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...

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Maggie Langley 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.
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