E-mail is a tool intended to facilitate communication and help you get your work done. If well managed, the inbox can become the central hub of your workflow through which you coordinate your work and conveniently exchange information that is essential to your business goals. Here are some practical and effective strategies for taming your e-mail inbox.
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Team-building is vitally important for a company of any size. Employees who are comfortable with one another are happier at work and are more likely to have an open dialogue, which can only help your company in the end. Here are some great activities for building morale that I've seen work over the years.
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I've been in my fair share of business meetings, some of them effective meetings that followed some agreed-upon business etiquette, some not so much. One thing they tend to have in common is a certain set of jargon, probably intended get a certain message across but usually succeeding only in confusing or angering people. There may be no perfect way to run a meeting, but there are some best practices. Here are some of the phrases I wish I could just erase from the business person's lexicon.
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In my experience, one of the toughest things about being a new employee in an office is learning the business buzzwords. Every office seems to have its own set of buzzwords, an accepted lexicon forged from the various professional histories of management. The phrases aren't usually too difficult to decipher, but it can be frustrating to encounter outdated (or flat-out corny) terminology and be expected to use it. To avoid this for your new employees, consider striking these business buzzwords and phrases from your daily office vocabulary. |
Whether you're running a company or a department, it can be easy to focus your attention on your bottom line, increasing production and decreasing cost. Of course, focusing exclusively on money can mean sacrificing time you could spend focusing on your people, and since it is your people who make it possible for you to accomplish your business goals, this is an unacceptable option. So how do you ensure that you maintain office morale, whether the business is thriving or barely surviving? Here are a few ideas borne from lessons I've learned along the way.
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It was a crazy start to the week, new things kept coming in by the minute and I noticed, with great annoyance, that responding to my e-mails constantly disturbed my workflow. Do you feel the same way sometimes? Then you are one of many. Studies show that e-mails are among the top ten productivity killers at work. I compiled tips that help you manage your e-mails more effectively.
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Andreas Tremel, co-founder of InLoox, shared the InLoox story: How the company got started and it's development into an international provider of project management software.
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In my experience, I've found office productivity to be a relatively straightforward thing to measure. My team does x. How long did it take to do x? How many times can we do x in a day? Great. Now we know. Let's try to keep our daily completions of x at around that level. |
It struck me the other day as I was doing my daily project management that it has literally never been easier to manage projects, and yet, it's never been more intricate. I thought back to my past systems - not just digital tools, but an intricate series of Post-Its and emails to myself - and it's amazing to me what I'm capable of tracking now with the click of a button. This thought led to wondering how many people are still stuck in the Post-It days and whether or not they know the benefits of business software, which led to this blog post.
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Starting in entrepreneurship is a decision that comes with a sense of accomplishment, dread, and its fair share of people who believe that they know better. Keeping the following tips in mind as a young professional can help see you through any trouble and keep the end goal in mind. |