Business Organizing Tips

Email Best Practices to Improve Productivity

17, Feb 2020

How many times have you received an email with vague instructions? It means that you have to reply and ask for clarification. Maybe you and the recipient will have to exchange several emails. Not only is it frustrating, but it is also time-consuming. Email best practices improve productivity. Concise, positive… Read more

Deciding to Delete

20, Jan 2020

Deciding to delete specific projects can improve our productivity. By working on the “right” projects, we don’t feel overwhelmed by the endless tasks on our to-do lists. Professional organizing colleague Julie Bestry tweeted, “Fridays, weeks before holidays, and the end of the year are good times to declare bankruptcy on… Read more

Clean Up Your Contacts

16, Dec 2019

As the end of the year approaches, it’s time to think about some goal-setting in your work life. Those goals might be optimizing customer engagement, increasing conversion, and building better relationships with customers, suppliers, and colleagues. All of that will be challenging if your address book is a mess. It’s… Read more

Deciding to Delegate

18, Nov 2019

We’ve mentioned the 5Ds of Decision Making; Delete, Delegate, Do, Document, and Defer. One of the hardest things that many entrepreneurs and managers have trouble with is deciding to delegate tasks. They may be accountable for the results, but they may not have to perform all the tasks. Often, they… Read more

Continuous Improvement

23, Sep 2019

The buzz-words “continuous improvement” have been around for quite a while now. It simply means that the goal is to become better all the time. In our businesses, and even in our homes, we should try to refine our processes to make our lives easier. Sometimes this is a significant… Read more

What’s Your Tech: Paper Chaos Gets Organized with Fujitsu ScanSnap

05, Sep 2019

WhatI was happy to share my knowledge about organizing paperwork Fujitsu’s ScanSnap scanner in the What’s Your Tech article entitled, Paper Chaos Gets Organized with Fujitsu ScanSnap. Here’s an excerpt: [Linda] Chu encountered her fair share of paper throughout a 20-year tenure in hotel management. She refers to it as… Read more

Technostress – How to Cope

26, Aug 2019

Technostress is not a new genre of music, but if it were, I’m sure it would sound like fingernails down a blackboard. The word technostress was created to describe the pressure and anxiety people feel when dealing with technology. It is a significant problem in today’s society as we all… Read more

Time-Saving Websites

29, Jul 2019

We’ve mentioned a few productivity apps that you can download and install to save time and effort. In this post, we present a few websites that can boost your productivity. There’s no need to download anything, but you might want to bookmark these time-saving websites for future use. Meeting Planners… Read more

Productivity Apps

08, Jul 2019

We all want to work effectively and efficiently. We want to be doing the right work at the right time with ease. I’ve put together a list of productivity apps that can help you save time and effort. Productivity apps come and go and the features change over time. Rather… Read more

Office Temperatures Affect Productivity

10, Jun 2019

Although I run warm most of the time, I know many who have worn their fair share of sweaters in cold offices, so I was interested when this study showed women’s productivity increases when office temperatures are about 3ºC warmer than the typical setting of 21ºC. The temperature of the… Read more