Whether in sports or in business, success is achieved during the training period. In Christopher J. Bucholtz’s recent article, 5 Ways to Guarantee Sales Will Hate Your CRM, he writes: “In reality, even the best-designed and most intuitive CRM applications contain a lot of power that can be accessed only with specialized knowledge of the [...]
Why did you choose to become a productivity expert? What could be more important in life than learning how to live? Here’s a little background: I started going blind when I was 17. This year, I qualified for a new surgery and a new implant that gave me my vision back. I’ve been blessed—and I [...]
My first race was about to start! I was the seventh member of our high school seven-man cross country team, and certainly the least experienced—I knew I had to go all out to keep up with the pack. The gun sounded and we took off. Amazingly, I kept up with them! This was easier [...]
Why did you choose to become a productivity expert? I chose to be a productivity expert because analyzing my decisions is a natural part of who I am. So, that when I train every day, I can react to life situations in the moment with precision. I want to share that technique with others like [...]
Why did you choose to become a productivity expert? I became highly productive once I realized I had to focus on only doing things that I was absolutely the best at. It became very clear to me that if I continued to do busy work I would never have the time to complete my most [...]
It was a great training session! Packed with important information about the new program at work. The trainer was an expert and kept the group focused and, on occasion, laughing. Everyone was anxious to get to work. Except… over the next few days it was harder and harder to figure out how to implement the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
