Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From other executive assistants to business owners, travel agents, corporate event specialists, the IT people, even the person who has connections for hard-to-get tickets or bookings can all be great “tools” in your network. From task apps to full-blown project management tools, the software has never been easier for task management.

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Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Peterson had written a book called 12 Rules for Life , and he said that he asked ChatGPT to “write me an essay that’s a 13th rule … written in a style that combines the King James Bible with the Tao Te Ching. … For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. And, voilà!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Set clear goals. When you define your desired outcome for your event, you can streamline your decision-making because you will know if an idea does, or does not, help you reach your event goals. It may seem obvious, but you want to make sure that the space where you choose to host your event supports your event goals.

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Success

AUGUST 17, 2021

Or daydreamed about a new project? Juliet’s approach has helped companies including Nike, Google and Spotify help increase their employees happiness and productivity, which she outlines in her book, A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work. Let your mind wander and find a new idea, goal or dream.

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Success

JANUARY 7, 2023

The more detailed my calendar, the more prepared and focused I am. They have more long-term impact, and they should help us the most in reaching our goals. Before I started studying productivity and goal setting, I thought all procrastination was created equal. Then on to Tuesday, and so on. Whom do I contact and why?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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Ideas.Ted

OCTOBER 5, 2021

. “We’re too eager to jump into, or be dragged into, active collaborations that might run better without us and that burn up our valuable time and energy,” he writes in his new book Beyond Collaboration Overload. Establish this early on, at the beginning of a project or when you join a new group.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 13, 2010

This article will give you action steps to help you move your goals from thoughts to concrete experiences. This article will give you action steps to help you move your goals from thoughts to concrete experiences. By following these steps, you will enhance your likelihood of success in life, irrespective of your goals.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

I’ve been reading a lot of books on leadership lately, something that I really haven’t done all that much before. Historically, I’ve read mostly time management, productivity, and technology books. One of the most important reasons to read leadership books is you can take the lessons you’ve learned and then applying them to yourself.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

I’ve been reading a lot of books on leadership lately, something that I really haven’t done all that much before. Historically, I’ve read mostly time management, productivity, and technology books. One of the most important reasons to read leadership books is you can take the lessons you’ve learned and then applying them to yourself.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

I’ve been reading a lot of books on leadership lately, something that I really haven’t done all that much before. Historically, I’ve read mostly time management, productivity, and technology books. One of the most important reasons to read leadership books is you can take the lessons you’ve learned and then applying them to yourself.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 9, 2010

Below are some ideas for earning money from products and services other than print books. Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. Book formats on Smashwords include PDF documents and formats that can be read by ebook readers and devices like Kindle, Sony Reader, iPod, and Palm.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 9, 2010

Below are some ideas for earning money from products and services other than print books. Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. Book formats on Smashwords include PDF documents and formats that can be read by ebook readers and devices like Kindle, Sony Reader, iPod, and Palm.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

It may not be perfect, but you stayed on it and achieved your goal. Is the phone calendar I use the best one? They get excited about a brand new app and spend hours reading about it and then learning it and in the meantime, they miss appointments because now they’re using two calendars or they forgot to press a button.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 10, 2017

Instead of having study times and important due dates on the calendar, we fill our calendar with appointments and meetings. Eventually, goals become verbal to-dos, not something that goes on the schedule. I sit down and plan out the larger projects I want to do and the goals I want to accomplish.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 30, 2012

On the other hand, the reader might have problems putting down the book and getting active. Set specific goals. Set specific goals such as: I’ll walk for 30 minutes per day; or I’ll write a 1,000 words each day; or I’ll lose 20 pounds. You need to determine when you are going to accomplish your goals. Share your goals.

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Productivityist

JULY 20, 2017

I recently took a three-day productivity retreat—I noticed that I was falling behind on projects, freelance work, and my own writing and that I simply couldn’t catch up. A wall calendar. All the books you’ll need to reference. You are working on your big project. Whatever it is, get it down on a calendar.

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Worxbee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Basically, if it doesn’t need a daily (or weekly) update, don’t book one! You probably have plenty of other reasons to have meetings, including specific project updates. Part of your meeting preparation should be to set defined goals. Think about the content you will need to cover in order to reach your goals.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

I've written hundreds of blog posts and a couple of books this way! Now break that into a few big parts of that goal. It's measurable and immediately gratifying to be rewarded with a snack at the end of a project. If not, I have at least made progress toward my eventual goal, and I can take another bite tomorrow.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? What are your thoughts in this area?

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Productivityist

JULY 20, 2017

I recently took a productivity retreat—I noticed that I was falling behind on projects, freelance work, and my writing. A wall calendar. All the books you’ll need to reference. You are working on your big project. Make some outrageous goals because this is the time to dream. I simply couldn’t catch up.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today it’s the Mayan calendar that has people in an uproar! That means you and your leader have to work together to plan the weeks’ and months’ activities, projects, action steps and who is involved in what. You intentionally make time to meet and discuss everything from major projects and events to daily processes.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 14, 2010

This daylong event will include a multitude of wonderful programs – over 40 speakers will offer workshops and panel discussions from tax law, loan opportunities, energy conservation projects and “How to Get $1 Million Dollars Worth of Visibility with Little or No Money Down&# presented by Tina Jesson , Visiblity Creator, Brownsburg, IN.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

And it’s sweet because now I get to discuss my ultimate, favorite topic: T, for Time-based, which has a great deal to do with project management. And project management is what I do best. So, let’s start with what a project is. In other words, a project is fully time-based. They aren’t projects.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. Some online task and project management systems are more up to speed on this kind of thing and have apps for your phone to make capturing information easy even when you’re offline.

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Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

To do that while maintaining your revenue goals, consider making the end-game for your practice one in which you work with fewer clients, each on bigger retainers. You cannot manage things that don''t correspond to a date on the calendar and a time on the clock. "I''ll Or, fewer clients, for more money.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself. kmmarketing   @ StephCalahan I enter important to-dos as calendar items in my iPhone. Break down into bite size pieces, and put the pieces on the calendar. To dos in back.

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Productivityist

AUGUST 17, 2015

In fact, the mainstay of my current setup is down to the advice and recommendations that are laid out in the book. This post is being created as a direct result of the book. I’m comfortable with the decisions that I’m making and the actions that I am not currently taking–mainly because of this book.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 17, 2011

In short, our goal is to save you time and money when you're ready to do something with what you've saved.      Can you really coordinate calendars using Springpad?  Our goal is to make it simple for people save things whenever and wherever.   Wow that is great! 

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Your calendar is stacked with meetings. When stretched for time, most people tend to drop thinking and planning in their calendar to complete as many tasks as possible. I consistently guard time in my calendar for thinking, planning and refreshing. It forces me to plan a next step on any hard-to-move projects.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. For years executives have asked me, “Isn’t there some kind of play book or operating manual for executives and assistants? Yet there are proven benefits when executives and assistants take some time to discuss the day’s priorities, upcoming schedules, projects and more.

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 5, 2010

The Next-Action Lists, along with the calendar, are at the heart of daily action-management organization. You have to capture your to-do tasks in such a way that your daily goals are aligned with your priorities. If you think about it, the tasks you do are really parts of particular projects. Create The List Of Your Projects.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Power Periods Make For Great Productivity My favorite is: Power Periods Because: Set aside one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon for un-distracted, uninterrupted time to knock out a big project. We use it to track the paperwork for my special needs daughter, articles, books, websites, etc.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

As the Personal Assistant to a quite renowned chef, my tasks might vary from the ones of a regular PA, like calendar and email management, to most specific tasks such as taking care of the journalists that come visit the restaurants and to interview Albert. Additionally, I take care of offsite events coordination.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

Also consider color-coding the index cards by project. Immediately add that task to your digital calendar or task list, and set a reminder on your calendar closer to the due date.     * Master calendars. Review past files, e-mails, and calendars to fill in specific dates for tasks and appointments.

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