The 4Ds Behind Managing Email And Taking Back Your Inbox There's no denying it, email is an essential business tool. It has changed the way we work, allowing fast and effective communication with colleagues, clients and collaborators, both in the office and around the world. Yet over...
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence with these five strategies We live in a time when professional skills are more valued than ever before. Tertiary qualifications, years of experience, the ability to interpret data and drive new innovations are highly prized. While those are certainly important elements of...
Practical Tips to Get Your To-Do List Under Control In some ways, I envy Frodo Baggins. The daring Hobbit, central to the iconic fantasy series The Lord of The Rings, had just one item on his to-do list: to get The One Ring to Mordor. One...
How an image of traffic lights can help improve your emotional intelligence Does this sound familiar? You’re having a conversation with someone, or perhaps you are in a meeting, and someone says something that really gets under your skin. Before you realise it, you respond: maybe...
The Multitasking Myth: How multitasking ruins your productivity Do you think you can multitask or is the multitasking myth actually true? Most of us think we can of course. In fact some of the comments and questions I get on this subject in my personal productivity training are...
Manage Your Time Effectively | Plan Ahead & Be Your Own Boss How can you manage your time effectively? When you look at your diary/calendar, you will probably find that you have quite a deal of available time or unplanned time. In fact, very often I find...
Communicating more effectively using your MBTI Type Part 2 So in my previous article, I highlighted how understanding your Myers Briggs preference for either Sensing or iNtuition can affect the way you communicate with others. If you have not read the first article, you can do that...
Communicate effectively using MBTI Personality Type When we think of improving communication using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), most people immediately think of how differences in Introversion and Extraversion can affect how we communicate effectively with others. People don't immediately think of how the second set...
Good Coaching Questions for Managers to use with People If you are managing and leading people, learning the art of asking good coaching questions is a highly desirable and I’d say, an even necessary skill. Coaching someone to discover the answer rather than telling them the answer...
Create a To Do List to Improve Productivity In my personal productivity training, I often ask how many people habitually create a To Do List to help them manage their workload. The results vary with each group of course, but it is not uncommon to have...