Instead, when you’re working… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJ3nZZuOn8 have a set spot to avoid losing time setting up and taking down make it motivating with a photo of why you are working use a keyboard & mouse so you look ahead at your laptop clear your desk (on your dominant side) to place current work put a lamp…
Are People Looking Up Your Nose? 50 sec video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4hIEzHcq8A&feature=youtu.be They are, if your screen is lower than your eyes. Ensure that your screen is at eye level when you are video conferencing by raising your laptop, iPad, or monitor. For your smartphone, simply rest your elbow on a surface with your phone in hand; it will be…
Is Your Workspace Working for You? Are you like Melissa who said “I just got a desk and started working”? To increase your comfort and save time… Optimize Your Dominant Hand 1. Make a spot for your notebook, or the current file you are using, on your writing-hand side of your desk.2. Move…
Have you ever forgotten to respond to a text? Don’t do it again. Screenshot it and email it to yourself. With a maximum of ten current texts displayed on your smartphone screen, when an eleventh arrives, the first is pushed off the bottom and can easily be forgotten. As more work comes in through texts,…
…for ONLY 3 seconds (3-2-1, you survived!) Experts suggest doing this once a week. BUT we recommend daily. That way it becomes a habit and you don’t let weeks go by without restarting. Turning your phone off daily: completely disconnects (e.g., a glitch might have occurred when you were closing your banking app and you might not…
Are you CC’d too much? Would you like to ignore/mute an email conversation that has nothing to do with you? Perhaps double check that the conversation really has nothing to do with you, then… In Outlook: Put your cursor on an email > Ignore (top left near the “Home” tab) Then you will…
One Subject, One Email – WHY? Because you want a prompt response to your email. So send one-topic emails. When you send a multi-topic email, the recipient thinks “I don’t have time right now” and leaves it in their inbox for “later.” Avoid this response to your emails. STOP sending multi-topic emails. Single-subject emails enable the recipient to more quickly…
Clean Up Email Without Losing Anything, Really! When an email is sent back and forth, each subsequent reply includes the previous email. So how many copies of the first, second, third, etc. email, do you need? Probably just one of each. Through character by character scanning, Outlook ‘s Clean Up removes all duplicate emails in a string, leaving you with…
How To Silence This Interrupter Your email alert; one of work’s worst interrupters. “The alert is on so I don’t forget to check my email” is kidding yourself. On average 6 to 10 minutes is likely how often you check email, so no pop-up needed. Turn off the email alert. AND don’t worry. If someone really needs…
What You Really Want To Know Is… How are you doing? Feedback, let’s us know what we’re doing well and what needs improvement. What You Really Want To Know Is… How are you doing? Feedback, let’s us know what we’re doing well and what needs improvement. Feedback in Five: – takes five minutes – is a scale…