Mute those annoying Teams Meeting Chat Notifications One of the things that I have become acutely aware of in recent years is the number of notifications that Microsoft Teams has injected into our daily work lives. Hardly an hour goes by when most of us aren't...
Why you should open your Outlook Calendar by default and not your Inbox What does a typical start to your day look like? Perhaps, like many people, you open your inbox to check any emails that have arrived overnight. You start to deal with these emails,...
We all know how important it is to prioritise our work. At work especially, we can be inundated by all the urgent stuff and tend to respond to the endless pressures of the moment. I've always found the Covey Matrix helpful when trying to prioritise...
Have you ever seen an email on your mobile phone and decided to look at it on your PC when you get into the office, only to find that you can't see the email in your Outlook Inbox? You check your phone again and there it...
When I talk to people about prioritising their workload or their time, I almost always use Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix. It's been around a long time, but I love how it often reveals our inherent tendency to focus on urgent tasks at the expense...
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Parkinson's Law Have you heard of Parkinson's Law? It is the adage that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion', first articulated by British bureaucrat Cyril Northcote Parkinson. Or sometimes shortened to "Work expands to fill time". We see Parkinson's Law...
As we begin to emerge from eight months of restrictions in Victoria, organisations have changed and work now looks like a balanced arrangement between home and workplace, with in-office workspaces prioritised for those who need it most. COVID threw the cat amongst the pigeons and forced...
By now, almost everyone who works in the Microsoft universe knows about Microsoft Teams. Since COVID-19 and the need to work from home, many organisations have turned to Teams as the 'go-to' platform for video meetings. Many organisations chose Teams as an alternative to Zoom...
This is part 2 of my working from home series of articles as a result of the impact of COVID-19. If you have not read my first article on this, you can read it here. In this article though, I want to write about ways to...