Meetings are necessary to accomplish your objectives. But they are one of the largest time wasters on the planet. Yet, participating in meetings is critical to your professional brand, visibility in the organization and networking. In order to navigate the cubicle maze of meeting management, I’ll offer five critical meeting participation points you need to… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: cellular telephone
Transition Checklist
When you are in the processes of changing positions to another company there are things that need to be done to ensure that the transition is managed well. Here’s a suggested checklist — do you have any items to add? Networking: Get personal e-mail address and cell phone numbers of those you want to stay… Continue Reading
Cell phone uses yesterday
Here were my cell phone/Blackberry uses yesterday that didn’t make sense: Riding on the silent bus into downtown this morning with one lady loudly speaking with friends. The cell phone in the men’s room. Somehow, the thought of taking a leak while on a cell phone just doesn’t do it for me. Answering the cell… Continue Reading
Convenient Communication, Lost Effectiveness
There have been some astounding advancements in communications technology in my career. The technology is such that we now expect that we will have Internet availability and cell phone coverage no matter where we go. Whether it be wireless Internet availability on our cell phones at Starbucks or the library Ethernet access, we’ve found convenience… Continue Reading
Rank your last meeting
If you are a knowledge worker, you likely attend a lot of meetings either in person or on a conference call. How was your last meeting where you were in the room with the meeting organizer? Ignoring the meeting content, what activities happened in your meeting? Did you: Have an agenda for the meeting? Have… Continue Reading
30 Career Management Tips — Control Distractions
This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Control Distractions. Like using instant messenger popping up on your computer screen every two minutes. Or multi-tasking and losing concentration on the conversation at hand. Or answering your e-mail every five minutes…. Continue Reading
30 Career Management Tips: Manage your meetings
This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Manage your meetings. If e-mail is the best and worst personal productivity tool out there, then meetings rank right up there on people’s lists of the least productive activities we do in… Continue Reading
My Killer GTD Setup — Part III
This is the third and final installment of My Killer GTD Setup, inspired (with perfect timing) by the Getting Things Done Blog challenge to describe my killer GTD setup. I have not been happy with how my tools were working implementing the Getting Things Done methodology. The methodology is fine; the tools I selected weren’t… Continue Reading
Vacation — 2007
Just a quick post to let you know that we’re on vacation this week, so the writing will be limited. We’re in Door County, Wisconsin and staying at a house for the week. Very little cell phone access and even less Internet access — so this is a very old skool vacation. I’m writing this… Continue Reading
Cube Rules Goes Mobile
I’ve been experimenting with different mobile applications for Cube Rules for quite a few months. I haven’t been happy with the presentation or consistency in how the articles and pictures render using the applications so far. But, I’ve now found a service that does the job right. Here’s how the site currently looks on mobile:… Continue Reading