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Managing Email Effectively: Strategies for Taming Your Inbox
When we use it appropriately, email is an incredibly useful communication tool. But many of us feel overwhelmed by the amount of mail that we receive and need to respond to.
However, there are ways to manage your email so that you’re more productive. In this article, we’ll explore strategies for doing this, so that you can get on with the real work at hand.
How to Be a More Engaging Speaker: Learning to Connect With Others One-on-One
Why Is Engagement So Important?
Stop and think about the individuals you’ve spoken to in the past who grabbed your attention. Chances are, the conversation was dynamic and informative.
When you engage people, you spark their interest, connect with their hearts and minds, and immerse them in what you have to say. What’s more, when it’s their turn to speak, you give them your full attention. Showing people that you want to listen to them is a powerful way to build trust.
The ability to engage someone has many benefits. It allows you to communicate more effectively during meetings, negotiations or job interviews, and it can also make it easier to persuade someone to see your point of view. Finally, it can enhance your reputation and open doors in your career.
Running Effective Meetings: How Do I Start and Host a Meeting?
There are good meetings and there are bad meetings. Bad meetings drone on forever, you never seem to get to the point, and you leave wondering why you were even present. Effective ones leave you energized and feeling that you’ve really accomplished something.
So, what makes a meeting effective? This really boils down to three things:
They achieve the meeting’s objective.
They take up a minimum amount of time.
They leave participants feeling that a sensible process has been followed.
If you structure your meeting planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up around these three basic criteria, the result will be an effective meeting.
Communication – Keep It Simple: Avoiding Confusion and Complexity
In a complex world, simplicity is important. With so many things competing for people’s attention the more basic you can make something, the better.
Simplicity is why slogans can be so important. When you hear, “Just do it,” you think of the Nike® brand and all the things that go along with it – Michael Jordan, air, running, high quality, high performance, innovation, and so on. The power of those three little words can be incredible.
When you see several brochures, which one are you more likely to pick up – the brochure with lots of words written in tiny print, or the brochure with a bold background and only a few key words? The more simple the message, the more impact it can have – and the more likely it will be to attract someone’s attention.
So, in this article we’ll look at how you can turn complex messages into simple ones using the “Keep It Simple” or KISS principle.
Logical Fallacies: Spot a Dishonest Argument and Avoid Misleading Others
“In a study designed by a famous academic to test the effects of pleasant imagery on motivation, employees were shown images of baby animals and beautiful nature scenes for their first five minutes at work.
“Amazingly, results showed a 10 percent leap in profits in the first quarter and record earnings over the course of a year. So, showing employees pleasant images is a great way to increase their motivation and improve productivity.”
What do you think about the argument you just read? Do you believe the conclusion?
You shouldn’t.
The argument contains a number of logical fallacies. But don’t worry if you believed the conclusion: the passage contains some very common (and effective) tactics for manipulating reason and logic. This article shows you what they are, and how to spot them.
How Systems Support (or Undermine) Good Decision-Making
It’s about your process not your people…
Some jobs have very clear lines between when you’re “on” and when you’re “off,” while in others the lines are blurred — or potentially non-existent. That makes not being distracted by work, especially mentally, a major challenge.
This can lead to sitting at dinner while your daughter tells a story about her day, but instead of hearing her you’re wondering whether an email from your boss came through. It can mean exchanging the time you could have spent on sleep, exercise, or talking with your spouse glued to your laptop. And it can look like keeping your work life in order, while your finances or home are a mess because you don’t take time to pay bills, plan for retirement, or tidy up.
These four steps can help…
Are You Ready to Serve on a Board?
To better understand what makes a director successful today, we conducted interviews with more than 50 board members representing some of the world’s leading companies. We found that boardroom capital is built on five different types of intelligence: financial, strategic, relational, role and cultural. The categories might not surprise you, but it is important to understand why all are necessary and to think about how to improve in each area.
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