Category: Time
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Stop getting GHOSTED
Getting ghosted – where people stop replying to you – is rubbish. It happens to all of us. And it isn’t nice. It wastes time. It lowers our self-esteem. It sucks. So here are a few techniques to stop people ghosting you: BEST ONE: agree Meeting #2’s date during Meeting #1 – when you end…
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Phone. Phone. PHONE
I recently saw this on LinkedIn: Manager: Did you call that customer? Colleague: I emailed her. She didn’t reply. Manager: yes – but did you call her? Colleague: no. So I chased with an instant message. She didn’t reply to that either. Manager: one more time – did you call her? Colleague: no, you are…
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Reduce meetings by A THIRD!
How much time do you spend in meetings every week? 20 hours? 30? More? Imagine if you could reduce that time by a third. You’d save hours every week. You’d save days every year. Here are four simple steps to reduce your meetings by a third. #1 Change your meetings’ titles to “Meeting to agree…
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Ensure meetings trigger ACTION
I hate, hate, HATE pointless meetings. You know the type of thing… Loads of things get discussed. But no actions result. What was the point? Here are four simple steps, to ensure your meetings always trigger action. #1 Before the meeting, create an Actions Table Before the meeting, create a three-column Actions Table The column…
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Quick replies to loooong emails
Whenever I get a long email, I always reply saying something like this… Thanks for this. I’m hectic today. Very quickly, please can you confirm what you want me to do with this info? The Sender’s reply always helps me speed-up my reply For example, if they say “It was just FYI”, I might skim-read…
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Teeth cleaning, hair brushing and Update Meetings…
When you brush your hair, which hand do you hold the brush in? (Asking for a friend) I guess you always start with the same hand – yes? And when brushing your teeth, which hand do you hold the toothbrush in? Always the same one, yes? Question: why do we always do these things the…
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The perfect number of slides
When presenting, what’s the perfect number of slides? Too many, and we force our audience to watch us read lots of words to them But too few, and they might forget/miss some of our messages The obvious answer to ‘how many?’ is ‘it depends’. It depends on your presenting style, your audience, the presentation, etc.…
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Do NOT read this Tip to your team
Would you ever do this with a Tuesday Tip…? Gather your team in a room, and make them sit there, while you read it out loud to them? Nope. That’d just be weird. And something even weirder… Imagine that – before you gathered them in the room – you printed this Tip on a big…
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VERY URGENT – one to do right now…
Happy New Year! I trust you had a great break, and are now getting back into the swing of things. But not the same swing of things as last year. And here’s why… Do you remember how – in your final few days before Christmas – people’s communications were different? Maybe you missed some Update…
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Get commitment (it’s easy)
Here’s my favourite way to get commitment in a proposal. At the end, I write: Confirmation of acceptance To accept the proposal, and for it to form an agreement between us, please sign page 3 and return it to x@y.com. As soon as we receive this, we’ll start our project, by doing (exciting things X,…