Dealing with Bottlenecks

Do you always wait patiently for a response to a communication? Probably not. You consider the delay to be a bottleneck that cramps your productivity, I bet. You try not to chase up too quickly because it appears impatient, even rude. At the same time, when you do chase up you do your best, throughContinue reading “Dealing with Bottlenecks”

Be Proactive ALL the Time.

I’m guessing you’ve probably been told bya supervisor to be more proactive, or you’ve heard about ‘proactive policing’ which technically isn’t proactive because it’s almost always a response to a problem and is therefore, by definition, reactive. But I am being a little bit semantic. In a nutshell, proactivity is the opposite of reactivity inContinue reading “Be Proactive ALL the Time.”

Start the New Year ORGANISED. (Because other people don’t.)

The Christmas period is officially over, and the world kicks reluctantly back into motion. All those tasks you had to put off because other people weren’t available (either by choice or because ‘it’s Christmas, it can wait’) now proliferate your to do list – just as more work comes in that was itself generated byContinue reading “Start the New Year ORGANISED. (Because other people don’t.)”