Tips on How to Reduce Meeting Time & Save Heaps of Money
22 July 2020Through the pandemic one thing that didn’t change, if we still had a job, was the number of meetings. For many, there have been even more. Perhaps you were one of the many who felt Zoomed out :-) The major difference was location – online from your safe lockdown bubble. Possibly you had to work […]
Does a 4-day week really work?
11 October 2018Have you seen some of the media about the 4-day week that Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand financial services company, experimented with earlier this year? Their CEO Andrew Barnes and his partner Charlotte Lockhart are personal friends, so it’s been a great chance to get an insider view of the company’s learnings, observations and next […]
How to Set-up a Distraction Free Workspace at Home
11 July 2018This week my blog is a guest post courtesy of Cloe Matheson from Dunedin. She has some great ideas on how to optimize a workspace at home and ensure that you maintain productivity and efficiency as well as the very important work-life balance. by Cloe Matheson Working at home is not as easy as […]
Save Thousands of Dollars by Reducing Meeting Time
31 January 2017Most of us are getting back into work after a long break and watching our schedules start to fill up again with meetings. Are you wishing you could reduce some of them? Whether you’re in a small home-based business or part of a large multinational, you’ll probably find that time is far too easily gobbled […]
How to Save Time – Do It Right the First Time
22 September 2015For the first six months of this year I was housemother/flatmate/grandmother for my oldest grandson Sam, aged eighteen and in his final year of high school. His parents were on an overseas posting. Many times over that period I found myself saying, ‘Don’t put things off. Do it right the first time and you’ll save […]
Can Efficiency Be Taught?
2 September 2015I was having a conversation with my 90-year old aunt about delegation, task management and managing staff – she’d had many years of running teams and offices. She said: ‘Efficiency is a life-long discipline, and not everyone has it or can learn it. Some people are naturally efficient and disciplined. Others are not – they […]
Two Simple Email Tips That Will Save You Hours Per Week
26 March 2015I’ve just been running a ‘Getting a Grip on Email, Paper and the Office Environment’ workshop for a large Government department in Wellington. Here are two email tips that got the folks really excited. They couldn’t wait to get back to their desks and start using them. I’ll share the instructions in Outlook 2010, and […]
A Cautionary Tale Of Clutter And Broken Things
1 July 2014I’m not a Feng Shui expert, but I do agree completely with some of its precepts, two of which are: a beautiful, calm and uncluttered environment gives us a sense of peace and wellbeing, quite aside from increased effectiveness and efficiency we lose energy on both a physical and a psychic level if we have […]
How To Be A Master At Making The Right Choices
29 January 2014Making choices is something we all have experience in. So why haven’t we mastered making the right ones? Any decision that moves us out of status quo tends to drain our energy and causes us to lose focus. We don’t think very clearly when it comes to difficult decision making. Instead, we tend to chase […]
Is Technology Making You Less Productive?
12 November 2013These days, technological advancements seem to be taking over the world. It affects our lives at home, the way we run businesses and even our sleep. To name a few, emails, social media and smartphones have optimised the way we communicate with people. Unfortunately, these mediums can also serve as interruptions or “time stealers”. Complications […]