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Nobody Likes Dealing with Death—Until They Attend One of Amy Pickard’s Humorous ‘Good To Go!’ Parties

Success

In an effort to normalize death and create a death-positive movement, Pickard teaches people how to throw a death party and add some humor to the inevitable and often daunting end-of-life duties. Surprised at how her friends took to the lessons, Pickard thought, “I have a message here. “I just said, can you put her [body] on ice?

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

How to interview freelance marketers It’s impossible to achieve goals you never set — so define and communicate your objective and scope of work in the first interview. ” How to onboard freelance marketers Good freelance management starts with good leadership. Develop a file-sharing system. What does a win look like? “If

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Start 2011 off Organized! - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Work With Stephanie « 106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World | Main | Make Your Resolutions/Goals from a Customer/Client Perspective & Grow Your Business Next Year (The 3 Ss) » Start 2011 off Organized! Here are a few simple suggestions for starting 2011 out the organized way!

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part I

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Author's Note: This is the Part I of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" ]. But how do you really prioritize? An example of this might be a file that you received from your boss on a Monday morning which requires your response by Friday afternoon.

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How to Set a Follow-Up Flag in Lotus Notes

Ian's Messy Desk

From the File menu, select Preferences. Lotusphere 2011 Notes: IBM Social Business Partners (billives.typepad.com). Clicking the point to the right of the flag icon gives a drop-down menu with three options. Selecting Quick Flag adds a follow-up reminder based on defaults you set on the Follow-up tab in your Mail Preferences.

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

So how many times have you read or written an email today? According to a 2011 study by IBM Research, more than 2.8 It also resulted in even more suggestions on how to improve online communication. Here’s another sampling of readers’ complaints – and how you can prevent or rectify matters. Top 10 Email Pet Peeves.

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Productivity Nuggets Of The Week (September 11 2010)

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. This post gives you 15 tips on how to increase productivity when working from home. How To Reduce Job Stress And Increase Work Productivity – Negative stress at work can kill productivity. This post gives us tips on how to manage task-related and people-related stress. There you go.

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