Is email taking up too much of your valuable time? Tired of spending hours sorting through unwanted emails? Ever lost one of those really important emails that you thought you had filed in the right place? Wish your business could use Microsoft Outlook Contacts for more than just a phone directory? HELP IS HERE! Conquer Your Email Overload solves these problems and more: Automatically sort your incoming email and get rid of junk Organise, file, search and find emails, simply and quickly Turn Contacts and Calendar into simple but effective tools for your business Top international marketing guru Debbie Mayo-Smith uses her expert knowledge of Microsoft Outlook to show you how to conquer your email fears and harness the full power of one of today's most important means of business and personal communication. Fully revised and updated and illustrated with step-by-step instructions and screen shots.
Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and well-being. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance. Ironically, we have become too overworked, unfocused, and busy to stop and ask ourselves the most important question: What can we do to break the cycle of being constantly under pressure, always-on, overloaded with information and in environments filled with distractions? Do we need to accept this as the new workplace reality and continue to survive rather than thrive in modern day work environments? Thankfully, the answer is no. In their new book, ONE SECOND AHEAD: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness (Palgrave Macmillan; November 2015), Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Gillian Coutts demonstrate that it is possible to train the brain to respond differently to today's constant pressures and distraction. All it takes is one second. They propose that we need to learn to work differently so we are more focused, calm and have less clutter in our mind so we can better manage our time and attention. What if we could hit the 'pause' button on our day, step back, and meet challenges with a sense of clarity and purpose? And what if there was a way not just of 'getting things done,' but ensuring that what does get done are the right things to do? Based on a program in corporate mindfulness designed by Hougaard and the partners of The Potential Project, One Second Ahead provides practical tools and techniques as well as real-world examples and lessons from organizations that have implemented mindfulness on a large scale. Thoroughly tested in a diverse range of industries, this program has resulted in measurable increases in productivity, effectiveness, and job satisfaction. With the new mindset proposed in One Second Ahead, readers will be able to put an end to ineffective multitasking, unproductive meetings, poor communication, and other unhealthy workplace behaviors by applying mindfulness to every day work life. All too often, we think that being mindful requires engaging in a special activity like meditation or yoga. Sure, these activities are beneficial and important to train the mind, but there are many simple things we can do to be mindful all day long. One Second Ahead is a handbook for more mindful work that offers: Practical, easy to apply, tools and techniques to enhance performance and effectiveness in day to day work activities such as meetings, emails, communication, planning, creativity and more Real-world stories of how mindfulness changed the workdays of leaders and front line employees Tips for cultivating mental strategies and routines that can reduce clutter, increase focus, and rewire your brain to enhance presence, patience, kindness and other valuable mind states Simple yet detailed step-by-step instructions for a more systematic approach to mindfulness training to enhance focus and awareness Guidelines for a 10-minute-per-day mindfulness program that can reshape your life both at work and at home; A reproducible planning worksheet and further resources in the Appendix. One Second Ahead can transform daily work life by helping individuals and teams realize more of their potential through greater focus and awareness. The tools and techniques in this book can transform individual and organizational performance one mind at a time.
Get ready to learn how to conquer the distractions caused by information and communication overload, and how to get out from under "communication clutter," so you can live a life of choice—one of action, not reaction. Feeling buried by communication clutter is that it's that state of feeling like you are always owing return communication to someone. It's the subtle sense of anxiety caused by your backlog of email, taunting you with the little red indicators on the communication apps on your phone—texts, voicemails, missed calls, social media notifications—plus the mountain of outstanding email piling up in your inbox even as you read this. Want to live free of that feeling?! Get ready to dive in and live free of communication clutter! Positive results include: Reduced anxiety caused by digital and paper clutter. An ability to retrieve information you need quickly. The opportunity to spend less time managing communication clutter and more time working toward your goals!
This book examines the impact of the digital deluge on employees and organizations and sets out the leadership actions needed to create a corporate culture fit for the digital age. In the digital world executives are presented with exponentially more information than their predecessors were a generation ago – and yet we’re not exponentially more productive. Why? Because we’re using twenty-first century technology with a twentieth century mindset. Excessive working hours, email overload and invasion of private life are all symptoms of a working culture that has used technology to simply amplify old management processes rather than enable and refine newer, more productive ones. Instead of liberating us, technology has created a digital overload, accentuating the problems of presenteeism, unreasonable deadlines and management demands. Organizations need to stop using technology to turn up the volume and start using it to change the channel. Written by a unique team of experts, this edited collection covers leadership, corporate culture, technology, wellness and workplace design. It argues that digital overload is a problem of corporate culture and a failure of leadership. As such it takes leadership to fix it. Leaders who have the courage to explore alternative ways of working with technology, the enlightenment to give employees more freedom and control over their own lives, and the humility to live and demonstrate the new culture personally. Those who do this have the power to transform their organizations so they can ride the digital wave rather than be swamped by it.
Your inbox is making you sick, and this book is the cure. Starting with the author's 12-step program for managing your inbox, this book is the key to recognizing your toxic e-mailing practices as habits that can broken. When you decide that you are ready for a permanent change and commit the time and effort needed, you'll prosper from the results. This book is a guide to shifting habits to take control of your inbox, your workday, and your life.
Offers an easy-to-implement solution to a problem--e-mail and information overload--that plagues millions of people • Draws on the authors' extensive experience working with major corporate clients • Includes a real-world case study of how the principles in the book were implemented at Capital One Do you spend so much time dealing with e-mails--reading them, writing them, responding to them, responding to responses--that you feel like you're just going round and round and getting nowhere? Meet Harold, an HR director so overwhelmed by email he feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Harold meets a coach--a leading expert on email efficiency and etiquette with a simple system that helps Harold eliminate needless emails, write better messages, and file and find information in a flash. He gets immediate results--and reclaims his life. This delightful and much-needed fable is based on the authors' extensive experience helping employees at companies like Clear Channel, Procter and Gamble, and Pfizer manage e-mail more efficiently. The book includes a remarkable case study of the authors' work with Capital One, where employees estimated they saved thirteen days a year by applying Hamster Revolution techniques. This book is perfect for time-starved professionals eager to restore balance and order to their busy lives.
In this Best Selling Book in its Category on Amazon, Author Kathryn McKinnon shares 10 Core Principles of Productivity to use as a foundation for your success. You''ll learn how your future can either be an extension of your past, or it can be something you create consciously, by choice. You''ll learn to take control over your life and start living in the present. * Get proven time management strategies and success stories where you''ll learn how to prioritize and set goals, reduce distractions, eliminate procrastination, get things done, unlock your creativity and transform your life. * Discover the secret to identifying what is most important in your life so you can focus on it each day. * Learn how to avoid allowing fear and chaos to start in your mind and emotions and work their way into your body. * Discover 4 ways to increase your focus, eliminate mental chaos and stress, stay organized and even save 40 minutes of FREE time each day so you can have more time for yourself. * Get 2 specific exercises to quickly and efficiently renew your body, your mind, your emotions and your soul every day. * Learn the secret to leveraging your time so you can explode your productivity to create massive personal and financial success. * Use an amazing Secret Technique to save time while you sleep! * Discover time management techniques to optimize your time, building wealth for your business or career, from healthy living and fitness habits to tips on boosting your energy, all expanding on one truth-It''s not how much time you have that matters...what matters most is how you spend the time you have. * Plus there''s a BONUS Meditation to become balanced & Release Stress! "I just started reading this book two days ago and it has already made a huge difference in the way I do things. The way Kathryn has structured the strategies and guided you to apply them creates real success. Thanks Kathryn! I''m loving it." Donna Vail "I was stressed out, tired and was definitely not enjoying life but that all changed when I started reading Kathryn''s book. I had no idea I was so unfocused. She helped me take control of my life. If you follow the strategies in this book, I guarantee you''ll be able to keep your life on track...I urge you to get this book and take back your time and your life as I have done." Barry Ferguson Clear...Practical...Implementable...Great Value "The author knows what it''s like to live a full, busy life. Her approach to time management includes a refreshing willingness to pull in both physical and spiritual elements, including the disciplines of focus and mindfulness. The book is jam packed with ideas for making better use of your time and clear steps for putting each of the strategies to work. This book was an excellent investment of my time! Elizabeth H. Cottrell, Shenandoah Valley, VA Increase your productivity ten fold-A Must Read "If you''re struggling to keep up with your day-to-day tasks, Kathryn McKinnon''s newest book is a must have. In a very easy writing style, she outlines a simple process for increasing your productivity and effectiveness. Kathryn offers one of the best resources for making your time work for you rather than you being a slave to time." Kathleen Gage "Internet Marketing Adviser for speakers, authors, coaches and consultants" Pleasant Hill, OR KATHRYN MCKINNON is a Harvard-educated, Time Management Expert, executive life coach, CEO of 2 businesses, speaker, trainer, Radio Show Host, professional singer, jewelry designer, volunteer, wife and mother of 2 teens. She has 32 years of corporate & business experience and for 20 years has helped women executives, professionals & entrepreneurs create success and order out of chaos with their life, career & their time. For information about Personal or Corporate Coaching, Programs and more time-saving strategies and tips, visit http://www.Kathryn-McKinnon.com
“You’re going to want to share copies of this book with your overbooked friends and colleagues, but before you do, take some time to read it yourself. Funt’s wisdom around making space is priceless.” —Seth Godin, author of The Practice Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire? Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible—until now. In A Minute to Think, Juliet Funt, a globally recognized warrior in the battle against busyness, provides a powerful guide that will give you the permission, framework, and specific direction you need to do the following: Regain control of your overloaded, caffeinated, inbox-worshiping workday Liberate yourself and your teams from burnout and busywork Reclaim creativity and focus despite the chaos around you Bring thoughtfulness into designing your next work norms Tame the beast of email and escape the mire of meetings Find your precious minute to think You’re not alone in your yearning for freedom from constant reactivity. The global workforce today is so fried that it belongs in the food court of a county fair. We’re relentlessly behind the curve, dousing fires everywhere, and our 3 a.m. insomnia provides the only unscheduled thinking time of the day. What we need reinserted in our lives is the missing element of white space—short periods of open, unscheduled time that, when recaptured, change the very nature of work. White space is the stepping back, the strategic pause, the oxygen that allows the sparks of our efforts to catch fire. White space has the power to radically—and simply—reinvent the way we approach work in this maxed-out, post-COVID 21st-century world. With Juliet’s memorable stories, easy-to-use tools, and razor-sharp instruction, she carves for us an escape route from the overwhelming amount of low-value tasks and the daily avalanche of e-mails, meetings, decks, and reports. Using research, client stories, and a relatable voice, Juliet shows all of us how to reclaim time for thinking and make room for what truly matters. Whether you are an individual trying to build a more sane and humane flow of daily work, a team that wants new levels of efficiency and effectiveness, or an entire organization changing your culture toward thoughtfulness, this book will lead you there.
Even if you don’t have your dream job, every day is precious and filled with opportunities. Make the Most of Your Workday challenges you to actively manage and make the most of workday possibilities and problems. With drive, determination, and optimism, it offers solutions to workday predicaments. You can take control; you don’t have to wait for leaders, people, or circumstances to change. No matter your level, situation, or dilemma, Mary shows you how to regroup, reframe, and bounce back. Make the Most of Your Workday begins with six common scenarios. Can you relate to any of the following challenges? Getting caught up in office dramas. Watching workloads increase while resources decrease. Feeling your interest, enthusiasm, and focus fade. Yearning for effective leadership. Wanting to avoid working with certain people. Feeling at the mercy of technology. Make the Most of Your Workday contains powerful strategies and tools from several key areas and combines them into a concise practical guide, from strengthening your mindset and self-awareness to identifying needs and goals, from prioritizing your time and energy to communicating effectively and managing the unexpected.
