Posts Tagged ‘productivity’
Start New Habits Today
Goals, Success, and Growth don’t come about with plans alone: they require good habits. Habits — or behaviors — that produce the right results. But habits, we all know, are hard to break. This means they are also hard to form: for every new habit we must break an old one. Here are a few…
Read MoreConsultant Corner – Rules for working form home
Remote work works! Rules and tips for being productive when working from home. Thank you for watching! For more tips on working from home, see my free Udemy course. ✅My Udemy Profile http://bit.ly/udemyRGB ✅My book: https://amzn.to/2TtloiH
Read MoreProWIN Webinar: Maintaining Productivity Through The Unexpected
ProWIN’s regular in-person luncheon for March 18th has been postponed. In its place, we have worked hard over the last 3 days to prepare a webinar open to members and non-members alike. Join Neelam Sharma, yours truly, and the ProWIN board for MAINTAINING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH THE UNEXPECTED – BEST PRACTICES FOR WORKING REMOTELY. During this…
Read MoreWhat Delegation Is
It’s time to delegate work. Accept that not everything in your business can be run, managed, and executed by a single person. Whether you hire employees, outsource everything to agencies, or do a bit of both: delegation is a requirement. But wait: delegation is not about creating a list of tasks and handing that list…
Read MoreThe Best Way To Buy Software
Is to do it last. This post remains relevant to my usual themes, if the subject is more tactical than usual. We all need software tools to run our business, and our choices here can impact business in a good or bad way. The latter happens when the software choice is made first, and business…
Read MoreExit Planning: Can Your Business Run Without You?
You use your craft to start your own business; it lives; it grows. And at some point, you also want it to work without you. At some point you will want to exit. Whether looking to leave the day to day completely, or rather focus only on certain activities, at some point the business will…
Read MoreBetter Time Management: Schedule What’s Important
It makes me flinch a little every time: somebody powers up a computer, opens their calendar and suddenly its notification chaos. There are overlapping commitments, at least seven different colors for different event types, and event titles that say little or nothing… “meet with Pete”, … “Design”, … And yet: those are the people who…
Read MoreSmall Business Resource Audit
Running a business requires more than money and time. Every investment is a resource. Last summer I posted a short series on this blog about how to run a resource audit. For a solo-preneur or a new small business owner, there is a simple model to use to address all your key resource allocation from…
Read MoreOutside Your Comfort Zone
This expression risks going the way of Thinking Outside The Box: a bit of sound advice whose overuse has made it virtually meaningless. But it really is sound advice, so let’s take a moment for a closer look at how understanding the limits of your comfort zone – and then moving beyond them – will…
Read MoreWho Owns Your Time?
Have you ever tried tracking your time at work? How much visibility do have over how your hours are spent? Before you answer, consider this scenario: you take your can in to the mechanic’s. You explain what is happening – a strange noise, a tug to the left – and the mechanic says “I understand,…
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