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Working a New Way

Wouldn’t it be great if you could add hours to a day as you need it? Imagine taking three hours from tomorrow and adding it to next Wednesday. While it’s true you can’t add hours to your day or move them around, you can still create more time. How? All you have to do is figure out how to get more done in the time you have. You have to work smarter.

The biggest time management mistake people make is not realizing how much time they waste.

The Work Smart column will examine different aspects of how you spend your time, and offer advice and tips on how to revamp how you use it. We’ll explore time wasters such as disorganization, the inability to say no, endless interruptions, meeting mania, procrastination, and more. And we’ll offer solutions that are easy to implement.

The Suite Smartz column will help you increase your productivity by exploring powerful, little-known features in software the majority of you use every day, mostly the Microsoft Office Suite. Learning these tips will help you finish work six times quicker, thereby creating more time in your day.

Work Smartz: 27 Email Pet Peeves That Tick People Off as Much as Spam

These email pet peeves not only tick people off, but they also contribute to email overload, which is a huge problem in the workplace. See if any of these hit a nerve with you.

November 22, 2005

Suite Smartz: Manage Email and Increase Your Productivity

Email overload is not the new messages coming in, but rather the mess that’s already there. Those hundreds of messages packed in your Inbox represent missed deadlines and unfinished work. To solve the problem, you have to lighten the load.

October 26, 2005


Working Smart: Unclutter Your Mind and Get the Work Done

Is your head full of bits of information concerning the many unfinished tasks? Are you wasting brain cells trying to remember deadlines? I call this mind clutter. I don’t have it because I create lists.

May 10, 2005


Suite Smartz: Cleaning Up Dirty Email Messages

Dirty email messages are the ones packed with annoying carets >>>>>>; lists of email addresses that go on forever; and hard paragraph breaks at the end of every line. Here are two solutions for cleaning up those emails so you can reuse the information.

May 10, 2005


Suite Smartz: Bullets and Numbering

In Microsoft Word, you can change the shape of your bullets, then reset back to the default.

February 10, 2005


Working Smart: Google Can Help You Manage Information Overload

Google News Alerts will streamline how you manage information overload or help you get media mentions that build your credibility.

February 10, 2005


Suite Smartz: Turn off Automatic Hyperlinks

Don't want an e-mail or Web site address in your Word document to automatically turn into a hyperlink? Then, turn that feature off.

October 25, 2004




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