By Meggin McIntosh, “The Ph.D. of Productivity”™ and Paper Tiger Expert
Meggin also recommends Paper Tiger Filing System Software for document management to get everything in your life organized — it’s not just for filing paper.
When you are taking the pulse on your productivity and the overall health of your ‘organization,’ you need to take a very good look at the ‘pixels’ related to your productivity. You can use this *P* word to think about a category that includes everything digital. For example, consider your
When you are really taking the pulse of your organization, you want to make note of – and make changes in (as needed) – anything and everything that can clog up your “circulatory system.”
Sometimes, the items (and your use or misuse of them) may clog up your ‘circulatory’ system because you don’t know how to use it effectively and efficiently. Other times, it is because the item – or some aspect of it – is a distractor to you. Either way, recognize that your productivity can either be helped or hampered by the way you utilize the technology tools you have available.
Let’s just look at two examples you will want to attend to if your ‘system’ has clogged arteries: email and electronic files.
Three key tips on how to use email effectively thereby keeping it from clogging up the works are:
As far as your electronic files are concerned, you need to be able to find what you have on your hard drive (just as you need to be able to find what you have in your paper files). A few tools to check out:
Just as your physical health needs to be monitored, so too, does the health of your organization. An excellent way to keep checking the pulse of your productivity is to join others (worldwide) who receive Meggin’s weekly emails (and check out what is available for download at no cost at the following websites):
**Top Ten Productivity Tips (http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com)
**Keys to Keeping Chaos at Bay (http://www.KeepingChaosatBay.com)
(c) 2009 by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., “The Ph.D. of Productivity”(tm). Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc., Meggin McIntosh works with bright people who want to be more productive so that they can consistently put their emphasis on excellence. If this sounds like you, I look forward to having you in our group!
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