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How to exorcise your demons of disorganization

Ian's Messy Desk

If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand. If you’re on the receiving end of delegation, learn to say no if your schedule is full, or find out what isn’t urgent and leave it for another day. invite as few people as possible to limit discussion.

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How to Manage Time

Ian's Messy Desk

Learn to say no. How you manage your time is part of your personal agenda. However, some careful thought will show, important things can be easily put into less time in a day, with the remaining time free for rest and play. Three rules for effective time management : 1) Don’t Create Impossible Situations.

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Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You

Stephanie LH Calahan

List Tasks (example) a- Plan Agenda b- Billy Bob’s Review c- Draft budget report d- Clean out my inbox 2. Compare tasks and put a check mark next to the higher Priority task: a to b then, a to c and then, a to d b to c then, b to d c to d Using the example above: Which is more important: “a-Plan Agenda” or “b-Billy Bob’s Review”?   

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Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers

Stephanie LH Calahan

  (I learned this the hard way when I was in 6th grade and the adult I was with locked her keys in the car during a terrible snow storm.  Assume they want to learn. If you are an evening person and you plan last thing, make sure you are looking at the next day's agenda!   Don't let this be you!)

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Anchoring the system in the tickler file: You will find your "Next action" sheets, your project sheets, agendas, documents you need to work with, etc. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! all in your tickler file--and will use that as the way of reminding yourself of what you need to do.

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Q&A: What are some social and economic issues small business face.

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. At the same time business failure is far less an issue, as the risk associated with these ventures is very small, with the right mental attitude of the entrepreneur towards failure, the learning effect of a failure can be enormous. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Are You A Valid Person?

Brilliantly Better

If it’s a friendship, see if the person at the end is not having any hidden agendas which will break up the validation process at some point. An Incredibly Fast Homework Now, that you learned a few things about validation, I’m going to propose you a little exercise, using the simple rules above. Did you learned something?

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