7 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Slack
Tired of spending all of your time in your email inbox? Slack helps you say goodbye to email while keeping all of your teams’ communications and files in one place, wherever you go.
Happy New Year: Why Labour Day Has Become My New Year’s Day
Back when I wrote The Front Nine, I explained that I started my new year in February. Actually, the specific date was February 2nd: Groundhog Day. Why? Because – as a nod to the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day – I didn’t want my new year to be a rehash of the previous year. I took January as a time to reflect and recharge, and then hit the ground running once February 2nd arrived.
But this year, I decided to make a change. Now I’m starting my new year on Labour Day.
6 Email Principles To Boost Productivity And Reduce Stress
Tired of having email control how you spend your time? These email principles will help you take control of your inbox and reduce the stress that comes with using time and energy effectively.
The Productivityist Podcast 55: The Productive Woman with Laura McClellan
This episode features a lengthy discussion with the host of The Productive Woman – and a productive woman in her own right – Laura McClellan.
How We Use Slack
Slack has not only improved the flow of communication throughout the team, it has also improved our overall productivity as well. Slack allows us to focus on using email for other areas of our work. It has also given us one place to look when we need to locate something for our team. Slack has been a game changer for us.
Essentialism: Focus on Fewer Tasks to Get More Work Done
Have you ever felt like you’re just rushing from one task to the next, and you don’t good about the tasks you actually accomplished? Instead of continuing to do things that aren’t working, here is an in-depth guide to the essentialist path. This is the approach how you can get more work done with laser-like focus.
Be More Productive With JUST A Pen And Paper
After I wrote this post about how notecards helped me write a book, I began to wonder what other tactile tools I have missed. Was there something else that might work better than the many–and I do mean many–different apps I have used?
The Productivityist Podcast 54: Voice Lessons with Todd Henry
In this week’s episode of the podcast I chat with Todd Henry, author of the new book Louder Than Words: Harness The Power of Your Authentic Voice. We discuss the importance of delivering your work and how your voice plays a huge role in that and also talk about our favourite football team, the Cincinnati Bengals.
How To Use Multiple Task Managers
While it is ideal to have one task management solution on an ongoing basis, for some of us that just isn’t a reality.
Maybe it’s because you have to use a specific app for work and you don’t want to use it for activities outside of work. Perhaps others on your team use different tools that you don’t want to use. Maybe the tool you use doesn’t allow for collaborative task management but has an outstanding feature set that is very tough to beat – such as OmniFocus. Just because you have to have to look for tasks in multiple places doesn’t mean that you can’t be organized about it.