Whenever I complain about email, I remember how it used to be and am grateful I no longer have to wait days (or even weeks) for a simple response to a question. With email I seldom have to worry about the message getting mis-delivered or lost (by the way, if someone claims they didn’t get
Whether you’re managing a whole team of teleworkers, or just a few working part-time, do you know your teleworker’s setup? In today’s episode, Wayne Turmel , co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute, discusses why this question is so important for remote leaders, as the physicality of your team’s “office” can deeply impact their overall productivity and
How much are bad time-management habits and distractions costing your organization? Check out this infographic created by SurePayroll to gain insight on productivity problems that could be plaguing your new team. Then learn what you can do to improve both your personal productivity and the productivity of your employees.
When it comes to our response to email notifications, it turns out Pavlov was right. Wait, what? The majority of us are familiar with the well-known experiment titled, “Pavlov’s Dog,” right? (You know, the experiment in which a Russian scientist rang a bell offering food, dogs came a-runnin’, eventually developing a conditioned response to the bell…)
The quote to the right couldn’t be more true. While it is spot on for everyone, it is especially true for leaders. Some (relatively small) percentage of the population is naturally inclined to plan, but most of us just aren’t. So people’s (including yours and your employees’) first inclination in the face of a new project or challenge is to jump right in
If you’re like most of us, just the thought of opening your email inbox can DRASTICALLY raise your blood pressure…and that’s why it’s time to declare WAR on email! In today’s video, Wayne Turmel, co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, will show us ways to lessen our email overload, as well as lower our blood
Have you ever considered how much email costs you? One of the deceptive things about email is that we think it’s free. But the majority of us are too young to remember the days when velociraptors ruled, and we had to actually PAY for email services (Prodigy and AOL represent!). Even at work, the email costs
As today’s workforce continues to adopt the idea of working remotely, we’ve got a crisis on our hands — our email problem. And with each passing second, email distracts us, decreases productivity, and increases stress levels (along with our blood pressure). In today’s video, Wayne addresses this specific challenge, and offers a powerful step-by-step exercise that can dramatically decrease your email
Recent studies have suggested that nearly 59% of you (okay, us) read email in the bathroom. That statistic has my brain running RAMPANT with jokes that I can’t even begin to share in a public space like this, and it’s easy to get silly. It does, though, raise some very important questions about how we
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