Posts Tagged ‘The Inefficiency Assassin’
Facilitate a Productive Meeting: How to Prevent a Waste of Time
In a prior blog post about how to facilitate a productive meeting, I mentioned an appointment for which the medical professional was completely unprepared. You can read the details here, but the short version is that we took off a day from work for this appointment, waited for over one hour to see this “professional,”…
Read MoreTo Do Lists – How to Get It All Done (Part 1)
Have you ever looked at your to-do list and thought, “How in the world will I have time to do all of this?” When you think about everything that we think we need to do, it can be overwhelming. But if you take the time to analyze your list and create a plan, you’ll find…
Read MoreWhen Is the Best Time to Work Out?
Are you wondering when is the best time to work out? This is usually a New Year’s Resolutions question. Folks ask this at the beginning of the year, then attempt to make a lot of changes at once, and then they fail. But if you’re asking this question at a different time of year, then…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan (part 2)
In last week’s post, I gave the background behind my project management lessons learned from an audio book project. I’ll pick up where I left off last time… What I didn’t count on were all of the small details that presented large hiccups. Authors can’t submit a chapter at a time to see if ACX…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
Project management lessons learned are not foreign to me; after all, this is what I teach to my clients in order to help them improve their time management and productivity. What is a challenge for me, though, is dealing with outside forces that you can’t control…forces that can screw up everything that you’re trying to…
Read MoreOffice Organization: How to Organize Papers
When it comes to figuring out how to organize papers, what are your roadblocks? The main factors that I find with my clients when they’re in a less than desirable paper situation are: 1) They haven’t set aside daily or weekly time to process their papers and/or 2) Their file cabinets are full, so they…
Read MoreEver wonder how time slips away?
Your time slips away. That’s why you say things like, “I just don’t have enough time,” or “I got nothing done today! Where did my time go?” In my third book, The Inefficiency Assassin, as well as in my keynotes and workshops, I discuss the concept of what I call time leaks. When we lose…
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