Flag emails you send in Outlook and follow up using your To Do Bar Recently, I received an email from a client who recently undertook some Outlook training with me. This was her question: "Do you have a tip on how to keep track of an...
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...
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...
If you use both Outlook tasks and OneNote 2016, you should be aware of a clever way in which you can select any text inside OneNote and have that text automatically appear as a new task inside Outlook. Better still, the new task is synced...
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...
You may or may not be aware that there are different versions of Microsoft OneNote currently available depending partly upon the device you are using. There is a OneNote version for an Apple Mac and then one for your IOS device. There is also a version...
The other day, was reminded of why I love Microsoft OneNote so much. I’ve been developing a few new training programs over the past few weeks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As I've done so, I noticed a few things here and there that...
These are certainly interesting and challenging times. As a result of COVID-19, many people are now working from home who don't normally, so it seems opportune to write a post about ways you can be productive when working from home. Part 1 – the setup Interestingly, one...
This is the third and final article in our series relating to continuous partial attention (CPA). In our first article we explained what CPA is, its impact and some strategies to beat it. In our second article we expanded a little on some more strategies...
In this post I continue a series on overcoming 'continuous partial attention' (CPA) to improve your productivity. If you have never heard of this term, you can read the first of the series here. Your attention span How long can you focus on one task? I mean...