“The average professional spends 28% of the work day reading and answering email, according to a McKinsey analysis. …. that amounts to a staggering 2.6 hours spent and 120 messages received per day” (How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day, by Matt Plummer, HBR). Enter email overload and … [Read more...] about Five tips for handling your email overload and overwhelm
Have you ever had an issue with managing strong emotions in the workplace and/or at home? Recently I wrote about how I was leading a two-day, hybrid retreat for a UN agency and the subject of managing strong emotions in the workplace came up. It often does in workshops that I … [Read more...] about Ten simple tips for handling strong emotions in the workplace part two
Have you ever had an issue with managing strong emotions in the workplace and/or at home? Recently I was leading a two-day, hybrid retreat for a UN agency and the subject of managing strong emotions in the workplace came up. It often does in workshops that I teach. We talked about a number of … [Read more...] about Ten simple tips for handling strong emotions in the workplace part one
We’ve all heard the old adage - monkey see, monkey do. While we may have become more familiar with online meetings, it doesn’t mean they’re engaging or effective. There’s way too much monkey see, monkey do -a.k.a. boring, non-interactive, lecture style, exhausting online meetings. Why … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable: How to make online meetings more interactive and effective
Tired of the exasperating monotony of repeatedly searching for that link you need to access all the time? Tired of the time suck. Oh, the time suck! Then it’s time to use the easy-peasy tool to reduce the drag on your time! Imagine if you dare, how much time you’ve wasted hunting for those oft … [Read more...] about Trash time suck with this easy, peasy tool
Just like the word conflict can arouse all sorts of horrible, awful, nasty feelings, so can the word … (are you ready?) …. technology / tech tools. Technology, whether it’s your best friend of foe, is ALL around us 24/7. I’m guessing it’s more the latter. You probably don’t have to cast you … [Read more...] about From overwhelmed to organized: tech tools & you (yes you)
Scenario 1: you’re madly dashing around cursing as you’re packing for a trip very last minute. You’ve got a plane to catch & you have a very strong premonition that you’re going to feel that drop of dread, totally unorganized feeing in your stomach when you arrive & find out you forgot … [Read more...] about Your time-warped organization solution from 1990 for blender brain
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The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
