Powerpoint show by Hugh Culver hugh@hughculver.com for The Future of Work 21 Jan 2010

1. The Future of Work It’s all About the Small Stuff 21 January 2010 Hugh D. Culver

7. My one thing…

8. Small stuff… Leadership: Tension Delegation Leverage From crazy-busy to effective: Plan for the week Block time Get off the email Recharge time Stop Doing List Clean your Window Asking Commit

9. Top 10 New Years Resolutions… Stop smoking Get Fit Lose Weight Enjoy Life More Quit Drinking Get Organised Learn Something New Get Out of Debt Spend more time with the Family Help Others

10. Creative Tension…

11. DELEGATION “The proper question is not, 'How can people motivate others?' but rather, 'How can people create the conditions within which others will motivate themselves?‘” Edward Deci.

13. Work

25. Specific targets

26. Reoccurring goals

28. Email… emails sent by U.S. retailers and wholesalers this year will hit 158 billion and grow 63% to 258 billion in 2013. - Forrester's US Email Marketing Volume Forecast (2008) > ¼ of email consumers received was marketing. - JupiterResearch (2007) Only 22% of professionals bother to unsubscribe. - Return Path (2007) More than seven out of 10 employed respondents checked their personal email at work - and nearly one-third did so more than three times a day. - AOL/Beta Research Corporation (June 2008) Nearly one-quarter of Internet users surveyed said they were most likely to check their email upon waking. - AOL/Beta Research Corporation (June 2008)

29. Email… 59% of people emailing from portable devices are checking email in bed while in their pajamas; 53% in the bathroom; 37% are checking email while they drive; and 12% admit to checking email in church. -AOL (2007)

30. Get off the eMail… Goal: limit time spent (esp. in AM) Use the right medium If you open it, deal with it Turn notification off Use the Subject Line Restrict emails to one topic Create standard replies Limit the use of CC’ing Use ShortCut Keys Use Organize to pre-sort

34. Stop Doing List Checking email between ___PM and ___AM Being available all the time Taking work home (thinking about) every night Fake delegation and bailing people out Allowing clutter Thinking I have to finish what I start Starting the morning with email Equating ‘busy’ with ‘success’ Making people subordinate to my blackberry Reading the news.

35. Recharge “You can only expend as much energy as you create.” Jim Loehr

37. V

38. VI

39. VII

40. VIII

41. IX

42. SIX

43. Windows @ work “The old way was better” “You can suggest ideas here all you want, but…” “I will never get on top of this workload.” “There’s nothing I can do – it’s not my job.” “It’s always going to be like this, until ___________ leaves/dies.” “I like change…change it back to the way it was!” “I don’t procrastinate…..I just plan longer than everyone else”..

45. Forgiveness

47. My one thing…

48. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit.” Goethe

49. “Excellence, is not an act but a habit.”