The document discusses best practices for managing the growing challenge of email overload. It recommends regularly emptying your inbox by deleting unneeded emails, filing important ones into folders, and completing tasks that take less than two minutes. Emails requiring action or follow up should be organized into "Action" and "Waiting For" folders. While customized approaches vary, the core principles of separating action and reference emails and regularly reviewing action items are most effective for gaining control over one's email inbox.
These slides accompany a talk about five key ways to improve digital efficiency in order to get more done, savor life and have more time to be creative. The slides focus on specific systems and tools for improving digital efficiency.
These slides accompany a talk about five key ways to improve digital efficiency in order to get more done, savor life and have more time to be creative. The slides focus on specific systems and tools for improving digital efficiency.
Use outlook 2010 / 2013 best practices to achieve your personal goalsBjørn Hopland
One of the challenges today is that you have to both have a good overview of everything within your field of work, as well follow up on all details. The risk is that when you try to get a good perspective of the strategic aspect of your work, it’s easy to forget the details. Also, there will always be much more work to do than is possible, and you are the only one that knows your work load. So you have to decide on your priorities.
Using Outlook to manage the details, and support you in prioritizing, will free up your brain so you can keep a good overview, work more on a strategic level, and get all your work done with less stress.
The outcome of this training will enable you to achieve or exceed your goals. You will also have full control at any time, with no hidden “iceberg” under the water. The time and capacity you free up by what you will learn, you can spend as you like. For more time off, to work on a project, or on long term development activities.
This eGuide explores how to:
-Increase productivity with simple tips
-Stay on task by integrating new email habits
-Protect your inbox from unwanted messages
-Use Outlook to speed up your agency’s processes
Even some of the savviest professionals have been known to put off – or to completely avoid – getting organized at work. Unfortunately, ongoing disorganization can lower your productivity and send your stress levels skyrocketing. To keep this problem from overwhelming you, take a look at our expert tips for staying organized at work.
This slideshow highlights energy waste and inefficiency from excessive email and inbox mis-management. Behavior change, case study and tips are given to minimize inbox clutter, storage problems and time wasted due to electronic packrat habits. Working smarter and more efficiently with email is the premise of the presentation.
Is email a major bummer in your day? Do you feel like they (or you) should have "gotten it" by now? You are not alone. The Morale and Tech committees join forces to help you become a kinder, gentler email sender and receiver. Please join us as we lead a group therapy session on email and how to make it work for, not against, you.
This “going digital” can be a bit overwhelming. How do you manage the mountain of email and
grading? How do you keep track of your links, files, and website materials? How do you go
about organizing and sifting through the vast array of resources on the Internet and turning
them into an easy‐to‐use and coherent set of learning materials for the teaching? Let me share
some of my strategies for coping with the information overload and the new digital era.
Golde Rules to Make Email Communication More EffectiveUNMESS App
Email communication is great. It allows you to communicate with team members, friends and basically everyone out there. It is instant, effective and virtually for free. That is the theory. In reality it very often happens email becomes one of the top time wasters, it affects your productivity greatly and is responsible for your stress levels. We all have some email management related habits. Most of us begin the work day getting through the cluttered inbox trying to figure out who, what, when and all that. An average corporate worker spends up to 28% of a days work just answering emails and managing inbox. And that is I must say hardly productive work. To make things better try to introduce those 11 golden rules.
Apply This to Your Life
We know this is boring, but you know you need to do it!
Clear an hour in your schedule somewhere in the next week, and set your filing system up!
Use outlook 2010 / 2013 best practices to achieve your personal goalsBjørn Hopland
One of the challenges today is that you have to both have a good overview of everything within your field of work, as well follow up on all details. The risk is that when you try to get a good perspective of the strategic aspect of your work, it’s easy to forget the details. Also, there will always be much more work to do than is possible, and you are the only one that knows your work load. So you have to decide on your priorities.
Using Outlook to manage the details, and support you in prioritizing, will free up your brain so you can keep a good overview, work more on a strategic level, and get all your work done with less stress.
The outcome of this training will enable you to achieve or exceed your goals. You will also have full control at any time, with no hidden “iceberg” under the water. The time and capacity you free up by what you will learn, you can spend as you like. For more time off, to work on a project, or on long term development activities.
This eGuide explores how to:
-Increase productivity with simple tips
-Stay on task by integrating new email habits
-Protect your inbox from unwanted messages
-Use Outlook to speed up your agency’s processes
Even some of the savviest professionals have been known to put off – or to completely avoid – getting organized at work. Unfortunately, ongoing disorganization can lower your productivity and send your stress levels skyrocketing. To keep this problem from overwhelming you, take a look at our expert tips for staying organized at work.
This slideshow highlights energy waste and inefficiency from excessive email and inbox mis-management. Behavior change, case study and tips are given to minimize inbox clutter, storage problems and time wasted due to electronic packrat habits. Working smarter and more efficiently with email is the premise of the presentation.
Is email a major bummer in your day? Do you feel like they (or you) should have "gotten it" by now? You are not alone. The Morale and Tech committees join forces to help you become a kinder, gentler email sender and receiver. Please join us as we lead a group therapy session on email and how to make it work for, not against, you.
This “going digital” can be a bit overwhelming. How do you manage the mountain of email and
grading? How do you keep track of your links, files, and website materials? How do you go
about organizing and sifting through the vast array of resources on the Internet and turning
them into an easy‐to‐use and coherent set of learning materials for the teaching? Let me share
some of my strategies for coping with the information overload and the new digital era.
Golde Rules to Make Email Communication More EffectiveUNMESS App
Email communication is great. It allows you to communicate with team members, friends and basically everyone out there. It is instant, effective and virtually for free. That is the theory. In reality it very often happens email becomes one of the top time wasters, it affects your productivity greatly and is responsible for your stress levels. We all have some email management related habits. Most of us begin the work day getting through the cluttered inbox trying to figure out who, what, when and all that. An average corporate worker spends up to 28% of a days work just answering emails and managing inbox. And that is I must say hardly productive work. To make things better try to introduce those 11 golden rules.
Apply This to Your Life
We know this is boring, but you know you need to do it!
Clear an hour in your schedule somewhere in the next week, and set your filing system up!
Arthur Gordon – Founding Chef & Owner, Irregardless Café & Catering and The Glenwood Club, Raleigh, NC
Anya Gordon – Catering & Marketing Director, Irregardless Café & Catering and The Glenwood Club, Raleigh, NC
Planners face increasing expectations from attendees for variety in food and beverage as well accommodations to special diets. Arthur and Anya Gordon will present their best ideas based on years of experience. Founded in 1975, The Irregardless Café was Raleigh’s first vegetarian restaurant and continues to serve as a pioneer taking concepts like ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ long before they became buzz words, and putting them into action serving healthy and innovative cuisine. In 2001 the Cafe transitioned Arthur’s informal ‘catering for friends’ and established its ‘Catering Division’ enabling planners to incorporate creative ideas in their events.
Rob Autry – Founder, Meeting Street Research
Rob is working on a project with HLN Cable News Network tracking millennial voter attitudes during the 2016 elections, and will share insights from the polling and the focus group work he’s been doing across the country.
Jamie Notter, Partner, Culture That Works LLC
In a follow-up session to his keynote presentation, Jamie will dig deeper into what it takes to create organizations that attract the best employees, the best members/customers, and the best partners in this new Millennial era. This session will include practical advice on organizational culture and how to shape it (regardless of your position in the hierarchy). Explore specific changes that can be made to organizational processes like performance reviews, and internal information sharing that will help you become more digital, clear, fluid, and fast. Make an immediate difference.
Jamie Notter, Partner, Culture That Works LLC
The Millennials seem to get more attention these days for
annoying their older compatriots in the workplace with
their flip-flops and a perceived sense of entitlement, In this
session, Jamie explores research from his latest book,
When Millennials Take Over illustrating the more important
role Millennials play as decoders of the key changes that are coming to the business world.
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