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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

Success

I admit it, I’m pretty addicted to my phone. I am trying to lessen my phone dependence for Lent. Check how the new job is going, ask about the bumpy relationship with the boss or share helpful information. Don’t sleep with your phone. But I did answer the pressing email! I’m working on it. Send an email. Enjoy them!

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. This is particularly important for employees in open plan offices, to allow them to balance constant contact with colleagues with moments of privacy and disconnection. We are social animals.

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Discover the One Key Thing that is Killing Your Business Networking #business #productivity

Stephanie LH Calahan

Do your research, and follow up with useful information your new contact can use. That means a personal email or phone call, not adding them to your mailing list. After, I book a half-day after an event to do any or all of the following: - Follow up with a phone call if I've had a particularly compelling connection.

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Enhancing Workforce Performance Through Reliable Mobility Usage

Small Business CEO

Your business location and your choice of phone service provider can determine whether you have a reliable signal or are struggling to make coherent phone calls. Nobody wants to be the organization whose reputation to customers is the one with the office phone that keeps on ringing and ringing to no avail.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

Collecting business cards or other forms of contact information is only the first step in networking.  From Clutter To Actionable Information. How do you turn them into actionable information? Add them to your contact management system. Then I verify the information and export to a CSV (Excel) doc.

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How We Pulled Off a Huge Event Through Outsourcing

Productivityist

We ended up hiring him for several jobs and staying in constant contact over the course of several weeks. By thinking of our VAs as part of Startup Safary, we developed great relationships with them through daily informal communication, putting out fires together and asking for their advice outside of business hours.

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