Creating your connections
Networking is as much an attitude and a way of thinking as it is a skill. It is something that many people do naturally while others can find it quite daunting; but it can be learnt. When you acquire...
View ArticleMaking time work for you
Time is one of our most precious assets when we work in a home office. If we don’t invest our time wisely we can easily get to the end of the day and wonder where the day went! Try some of these tips...
View ArticleDesktop Management
For some of us, working from home might mean our own office or it might mean the kitchen table. Regardless of where you work it is important to consider several desktop strategies to make your day more...
View ArticleGet Productive: Drink Water Before Meetings
Decrease meeting length... drink water! In March 2010 Inc. magazine published an article featuring some of America’s most productive CEOs called the United States of Productivity. One of my favorite...
View ArticleGet Productive: Remove Clutter or create clutter?
Is a messy area the sign of a messy mind? Career Builder did a survey that found 28% of supervisors are less inclined to promote someone with a not-so-neat workspace – I guess many people still...
View ArticleGet Productive … In a Hurricane!
Hurricane Sandy isn't a nice chick! We are so reliant on power, constantly connected 24 x 7. It isn’t until we are left without our devices and laptops we realize how connected we truly are. Living in...
View ArticleGet Productive: Three High Value Activities (HVA) in Three Minutes
I recently had the opportunity to hear Mark LeBlanc share his brilliance in New York as part of a chapter meeting of the National Speakers Association (NSA). Knowing that Mark is not only a great guy,...
View ArticleGet Productive: Yanking Bootstraps
Recently I read Tammy Hawk-Bridges book Yanking Bootstraps – a great little resource on how to bootstrap your business to success. This small book is full of ideas and insights from someone who...
View ArticleGet Productive: Apps to Organize Your Life- Guest Blogger
When Thoreau spoke that the solution to a life “frittered away by detail” was to “simplify, simplify, simplify,” he couldn’t have imagined a world where we manage much of our lives via computers and...
View ArticleGet Productive: Get Quiet
I am surrounded by introverts! Some of my best friends are introverts, I married an introvert, some of my favorite clients are introverts… but alas … me – nope, you guessed it – I am an extreme...
View ArticleMaking time work for you
Time is one of our most precious assets when we work in a home office. If we don’t invest our time wisely we can easily get to the end of the day and wonder where the day went! Try some of these tips...
View ArticleDesktop Management
For some of us, working from home might mean our own office or it might mean the kitchen table. Regardless of where you work it is important to consider several desktop strategies to make your day more...
View ArticleGet Productive: Drink Water Before Meetings
In March 2010 Inc. magazine published an article featuring some of America’s most productive CEOs called the United States of Productivity. One of my favorite tips was from Catarina Fake, the...
View ArticleGet Productive: Remove Clutter or create clutter?
Career Builder did a survey that found 28% of supervisors are less inclined to promote someone with a not-so-neat workspace – I guess many people still believe cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered...
View ArticleGet Productive … In a Hurricane!
Hurricane Sandy isn't a nice chick! We are so reliant on power, constantly connected 24 x 7. It isn’t until we are left without our devices and laptops we realize how connected we truly are. Living in...
View ArticleGet Productive: Three High Value Activities (HVA) in Three Minutes
I recently had the opportunity to hear Mark LeBlanc share his brilliance in New York as part of a chapter meeting of the National Speakers Association (NSA). Knowing that Mark is not only a great guy,...
View ArticleGet Productive: Yanking Bootstraps
Recently I read Tammy Hawk-Bridges book Yanking Bootstraps – a great little resource on how to bootstrap your business to success. This small book is full of ideas and insights from someone who...
View ArticleGet Productive: Apps to Organize Your Life- Guest Blogger
When Thoreau spoke that the solution to a life “frittered away by detail” was to “simplify, simplify, simplify,” he couldn’t have imagined a world where we manage much of our lives via computers and...
View ArticleGet Productive: Get Quiet
I am surrounded by introverts! Some of my best friends are introverts, I married an introvert, some of my favorite clients are introverts… but alas … me – nope, you guessed it – I am an extreme...
View Article3 Ways to Pay Attention and Tidy Up this Spring
Ever hear you mum or dad say ‘tidy up your room!’ I did. Growing up, my little sister and I shared a room and yet we didn’t share the same idea of what ‘tidy up’ meant. It may not surprise you that I...
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