When you have developed a well-functioning structure to lean on in your work, your working-methods will have gotten rather refined. You sort and categorize, put things in folders and assign tags. You label, group and organize. This helps you to ...
When you have so much papers and stuff surrounding you in your office (or on and by your desk if you are seated in an open office landscape) that you spend more time than you would prefer ...
Have you ever had to work very late one night and right after finally sending those last emails that have been hanging over your head a few hours past midnight the thing you least expected happens - someone responds straight away?
Use this function to ...
If you never ever handle physical papers in your work, you can stop reading this structure tip now. You can also consider yourself lucky to be ...
We want to be able to find the documents we save in matter of seconds whenever ...
Let us say that there are things you do at work more than once, perhaps even relatively often. And they are not tiny tasks either, but rather ...
When we improve our structure, we create new things. We begin using ...
Many of those I meet during my lectures and who write to me feel stressed due to the seemingly endless ...
Some us receive our fair share of cc’d emails, meaning we receive a copy of an email primarily intended for ...
When something new you have to do lands on your desk, it can be tempting to ...
During a conversation with a client who was in the tricky situation of having to distribute important knowledge and information to ...
When we travel and will not have much time for responding to emails, we turn on the automatic ”out of office”-reply. Many use this ...
So, how should we go about this? Should we ”eat the frog” and ...
Most of us need some degree of focus in order to get things done. Perhaps it is even one of the most important aspects of ...
More and more of the organizations I help are transitioning into using Microsoft’s Office 365 Online. There are of course still ...
During an interview I gave the other day I was asked ”Isn’t there a risk that we structure things too much?”. I understand this concern, and I ...
You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...
When I am on vacation, I rarely answer emails. Since I have my own company, I still like to ”keep an eye on things”, and have been keeping that eye on my inbox during my time off, but I have really only ...
There is a lot of talk about having an empty inbox at the moment. And I also often speak about the wonderful feeling of having ...
The one who strives to be efficient must have space to work in. If there is not enough space it will be difficult to spread out all our material to get a better overview. Some of us get another ...
