Are your meetings geared to results?
A recent international study by Priority Management revealed that 38% of people felt results and follow-up from meetings are rarely communicated and that 23% of meetings fail to start or end on time. Dan Stamp, Chairman of Priority Management Inc recently offered some "Golden Rules" to help guide meeting effectiveness. read more
Take Ownership of Your Own Stress!
People everywhere are worrying about their savings, their careers and the future. So this is probably a good time to talk about taking control of your own stress levels. Dan Stamp provides some practical suggestions ... read more
Technology can enslave or liberate, depending on how we use it
EMAIL is the biggest time-waster in business and nobody's doing anything about it," says Michael Keaton, general manager Lego ANZ. Clearly he doesn't know Priority Management! read more
Coaching for Improved Performance
Do you ever hear you supervisors and managers saying ... “We need to spend more time working with team” ... “Some people come back after training and make changes – others just go back to what they were doing before” ... read more
Training your way out of the recession
Investing in your staff will improve productivity and save you money. Recent studies have confirmed investing in training your people not only saves money but is more effective than shopping around for talent. read more
Can you read this without being interrupted?
The chances of you finishing this article without getting interrupted or distracted are remote.
“The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.
The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of "In Praise of Slowness," is a situation where the digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run more smoothly are actually preventing people from getting critical tasks accomplished. “*
Graduates of Priority’s Working Smart suite of programs learn how to minimize the interruptions email creates by turning off sounds and alerts use the workload management tools to help remember important dates.
Here’s how:
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Outlook 98, 2000, 2002(XP) Users 1. From your Inbox folder, click Tools, Options. 2. Click E-mail Options. 3. Uncheck Display a notification message when new mail arrives. 4. Click on the Advanced E-mail Options button. 5. Uncheck Play a sound in the When new items arrive section. 6. Click OK three times to finish.
1.From your Inbox folder, click Tools, Options. 2. Click E-mail Options. 3. Click on the Advanced E-mail Options button. 4. Uncheck Play a sound, Show an envelope icon in the notification area and Display a New Mail Desktop Alert. 5. Click OK three times to finish.
1. On the Tools menu, click Options. 2. On the Preferences tab click E-mail Options. 3. Click on Advanced E-mail Options. 4. Uncheck Play a sound, Show an envelope icon in the notification area and Display a New Mail Desktop Alert. 6. Click OK three times to finish.
Lotus Notes R6, R6.5, R7 Users
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