Archives for the 'Management' Category
Changing Behavior [Productivity in Context]
Good morning all, I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager today. It is the third installment of the Leadership series for the month of May.
It’s a little different from what I normally write about, so please check it out, and leave a comment. I would love to hear what you think.
Thank you for [...]
Turning Adversity into Success [Productivity in Context]
My friend Stephen Hopson was interviewed for the Tuscon Citizen:
Bruzzese: Turn adversity into dreams come true
Hopson’s new career is based upon the premise that he knows how to take adversity and turn it into success, and he believes that it is a message many people want to hear from just a regular guy faced with [...]
Making Changes [Productivity in Context]
I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager, please check it out here:
Strategy for Making Changes
Thank you for your support, I’d love to hear what you think.
Original post here: Stephen
Guest Posting at Slacker Manager [Productivity in Context]
I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager about Performance-based Interviewing. Check it out, if you would.
Original post here: Stephen
Supporting Employee Engagement [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Anita Bruzzese has a post at 45 Things that builds on the ideas of the Sixth Habit: Synergize that I wrote about on Monday.
On the Job
What can managers do to help keep customers while not placing more stress on workers? Try:
Providing a supportive environment. An employee who has been put through the wringer by a [...]
Book Review - The First 90 Days [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
I just picked up this book, and was going to review it. Tim at My GTD Stuff has beat me to it:
Stuff for Getting Things Done: The First 90 Days - Success Strategies for New Leaders
One of the better books that I have read is called The First 90 Days - Success Strategies for [...]
Powerful contact management with Highrise [Hack Your Day]
Highrise, by 37signals, is a very powerful contact management system that lets you keep track of anything contact related. You can use it for customer care, networking, team management, even task management if you want to.
Basics
At its core, Highrise is a place to store contact information and interaction. You can create contacts, enter various contact [...]
The blogger’s link between planning and reaction time [Hack Your Day]
Reaction time is very important nowadays, especially if you work as a blogger or as someone else who feeds on info. I need to fix some problems at my day job again so I didn’t write new posts, but had a few draft titles written up. I had a Prism review on my agenda [...]
Log everything you do and become more productive with RescueTime [Hack Your Day]
During my dayjob my boss recommended an awesome application called RescueTime. Basically it is a simple app residing in the system tray that monitors what you do all the time. It periodically sends this data to the RescueTime server, and by logging on to your account you can view how productive or unproductive you [...]
5 steps to managing a blog writer’s workflow [Hack Your Day]
If you blog a lot, especially if you do it professionally, a lot of your day will be spent writing and reading stories. An RSS feed is an integral part of this, both for finding stuff to write about and also to keep yourself up to date on news. I think Google Reader is an [...]