Month: March 2011
Creating an Awesome Home Office Plan
Good home office plans can influence how successful you are while working from home. This means having the resources to get the job done, minimizing distractions and being comfortable. Home office plans go beyond a floor plan for your office furniture and equipment(although some are mentioned below). You need toRead More
Take Care of Your Email Follow-up Woes with NudgeMail
The problem with getting a huge number of emails every day isn’t the time it takes to reply to them. Well, that’s a part of the problem — but there’s a bigger issue: forgetting to follow-up on important emails. Yes, it happens all the time. Remember the last time youRead More
Proof Positive: 8 Ways to Create Positive Work Relationships
No man is an island. – John Donne This quotation is certainly true when it comes to your working environment, especially in an office where you have many colleagues who you see every day. To get on in your chosen area of work and enjoy what you are doing, itRead More
How to Overcome the Stress of Being an Overachiever
According to Dr. Phil, “we can’t change what we don’t acknowledge first.” With this being the case, I have finally come to terms with a plaguing issue that I’ve denied for many years: My name is Jennifer, and I am an overachiever. There. I’ve said it. The proof is in theRead More
Collabtive: Project Management Simplified
An integral part of work is project management. Whether big or small, a project cannot be successful if it isn’t well-managed. Every work has its own set of requirements, priorities, deadlines and more. Managing a project becomes a mammoth task, especially when we do not take proper steps to makeRead More
10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Coaching Sessions
Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people to produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers or businesses. The way in which your approach coaching sessions will make a difference to what you get out of them and how much you achieve. Here are some tips that will helpRead More
The Very Best of Awesome Links
After forty(!) articles in the Awesome Links series, I thought I’d offer some of my favorite links from the past that have been published on WorkAwesome. Supercharge Your OS X Desktop: Wallpaper, Icons, & Other Hacks (Windows tricks included) I like to include useful posts from Guiding Tech (full disclosure:Read More
The Path to Productivity: Short Hours, More Breaks
You want to be more productive. Who doesn’t, right? We’ve all heard suggestions for packing more work into the idle moments of our day and shrinking tasks by reducing the time we make available to them. If you have too much work, you’ll just have to work more to getRead More