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Status Update: March 23, 2016 Good News! Over the past two months, we’ve had over 1,000 people participate in beta testing four new products/features: two new mobile apps (iOS and Android) and two new sync solutions (Google & Microsoft 365). These efforts have been very productive and we wanted to share a few things people have been saying, and answer a few questions that have been asked. First, so what are people saying about the [...]

Meet Florence Snyder, also known as, grandma. Grandma lived, what is now considered, a long time ago. Back then, when grandma went to buy groceries, something magical happened… The A&P manager would greet her and say, “Good morning Mrs. Snyder! We just got fresh bread from the baker and I’ve saved some of those bananas—just the way you like them!” The butcher would say, “I’m wrapping your cuts right now—hey, take a look at the [...]

If your organization is involved in sales, you already have a sales process. But unless you have an identified and established sales process, you’ll find that random acts produce random and uncertain results. In sales, random acts can be used occasionally, but a systematic and well-defined best practices approach can assure predictable results. In simple terms, a sales process is a systematic (step-by-step) approach involving a series of steps that enables a salesperson to close [...]

Keeping a task list, or to-do list, is key to the process of getting things done. However, tasks tend to remain as just items on a list until you actually take time to schedule each individual tasks on your calendar—and then focus exclusively on that single task for the time you’ve allotted. That’s called time blocking. Time blocking is a very effective productivity/time management habit that helps you determine how long you’ll focus your time [...]

An element of personal and organizational productivity is time management. The change to Daylight Savings Time demonstrates just how important even a single hour can be! Early Sunday morning, the nation’s clocks will spring forward—and even though our brains know that the time on the clock has changed, our internal body clock doesn’t. The consequences of the time change can be serious. Studies, including one at the University of British Columbia, documented a five to [...]

Kayla looked down at her “Manager of the Year” award and smiled. It felt good to be recognized for the long hours and hard work. She knew she couldn’t have done it without the support of her team—but, if you asked her team, they wouldn’t have done anything without Kayla leading the way by changing the culture. Six months ago, Kayla sat with all the other managers in a “leadership summit.” The executives announced that [...]