Working with people to boost business productivity puts me in the privileged position of up close and personal access to their systems. And while clients may practice either simple, complex or chaotic systems, everyone, and I mean every-single-one, has old, dated and superfluous (isn’t that a gorgeous word) files clogging up hard drives, servers and sanity. [...]
Top Ten Online Document Management Apps
To improve my time management and move closer to a place of paperless productivity, I’ve been scrolling through the mine field of document apps on the lookout for some pretty darn awesome ones. And while I’m still wiggling into a perfect fit, shifting from PC to Mac (and sometimes slipping right back into old habits [...]
Top Ten Productivity Apps for the iPhone
Wondering how to use your iPhone to boost your business productivity? Well you’ve come to the right place. Drum roll please … Ladies and Gentlemen, announcing a top 10 iPhone productivity Apps list. What they are good for and why. Sorted by price and nothing else: Evernote (Evernote. Free): An all-time favourite of mine since [...]
Managing Bookmarks: What is That?
Bookmarks, in the electronic world, are the ‘favorites’ or ‘internet shortcuts’ on your web browser that do pretty much the same thing as their paper alternative; they keep record of your place for later retrieval and work wonders with your time management. For the absolute bookmark virgin, I should probably start with how to access [...]
Managing Backups: Automated Solutions
My personal organisation routine includes a recurring weekly reminder to run a manual backup of my computer to an external hard drive. Blush. It’s easy enough for sure, but even so, it usually doesn’t get done. While I am slowly, slowly moving all vital files and folders into Dropbox, client/sales files to OnePageCRM and project [...]
Top Ten Apps for Team Productivity
While team productivity is a subject close to my heart, doing it electronically was never aligned with my comfort zone. In fact, it took more than a forceful nudge by one of my very convincing colleagues to look into an online team collaboration tool. While I’ve not yet come to a definitive conclusion as to [...]
Top Five Contact Management Systems
Any sales team on a mission to boost business productivity and bottom line results will agree that a stable, supportive and intuitive Contact Management System features pretty close to the top of the list of essentials. Without it, potential sales slip down the toilet, time is wasted and energy depleted. So if your Excel spread [...]
Managing Your Files Online: Structure, Structure, Structure
Managing your files online is a phrase that turns many a business owner’s head. Questions of security, visibility and many other concerns jump to the fore. While it might still be okay to fumble your way through your personal computer’s electronic jumble, with business organisation trends leaning heavily towards cloud storage and online collaboration, you [...]
3 Signs I Need To Organize My Computer Desktop
I’d like to think that I am pretty well versed when it comes to business productivity. Sadly though, I also happen to be human! I need to organize my computer desktop and it always moves to the end of the very long to-do list. So I’m about to present to a client and my computer [...]
Business Productivity: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Sometimes I find myself imagining whether we could boost business productivity if we were all a little more alike. Not necessarily carbon copies, but just on the same wave length, in-tune, synced. Would we get things done faster, hurt fewer feelings, laugh more (or less)? Maybe. Would we be more inspired, creative, stimulated and organised? [...]
