What Your Email Response Time Says About You
I read an article in The Daily Mail called "Email etiquette: What your response time reveals about your personality". From the Article by Liz Hull: It's usually considered polite when…
Personal Development
5 Lessons Managers Can Learn From Running A Pool Team
Okay, a slightly strange topic - and tangent - for me I know bt I've been thinking about this for a while now (no wonder my head hurts!) and I…
7 Habits: Habit 7 – Sharpen The Saw : Principles of balanced Self-Renewal
Habit 7 is all about managing the lessons we learned in Habits 1 through 5 and how to ensure that we keep ourselves healthy and balanced.
Taking Control of Work/Life Balance
CIO.Com has an interesting interview with leadership consultant and psychologist Henry Cloud on the importance of a good work/life balance. Cloud notes that work life balance never used to be…
7 Habits – Habit 5: Seek first to understand then to be understood
Habit 5 looks at seeing things from someone else's perspective. If we are to be able to have a meaningful conversation with someone we first need to understand their needs…
10 Practical Uses For Psychology
I've written before about Psychology and its various uses such as how to spot a liar but the Psyblog takes it a step further and looks at "10 practical uses…
7 Habits: Habit 6 – Synergise
Essentially having a synergistic relationship with someone is to use the previous 5 Habits Of Highly Effective People to form a bond with them, that way you are able to…
Is Batch Processing The New Way To GTD?
I was interested to read Darren Rowse of Problogger discussing his blog posting techniques and that he batch processes them for maximum productivity. I thought about that for a while…
Old Workers Are The Happiest
The BBC has reported that "Older People are happier at work": Older workers are the happiest employees, research commissioned by Vodafone suggests. Seven out of 10 workers aged over 50…
7 Habits: Habit 4 – Think Win/Win
Habit 4 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is all about achieving a mutually acceptable compromise with the person you're dealing with so you both feel that…
Coping With Email After A Holiday
I've recently gone back to work after a week off and getting back to the office is always a chore - especially when you have an inbox bursting with emails…
Why Being Happy At Work Could Kill You… (Maybe)
I caught an interesting news story on the radio last week (or it may have been the week before!) about how faking happiness at work could make you ill