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Be an active listener.
B The most important thing you can do when facing a customer, or anyone for that matter, is to engage in active listening. There is no greater way of displaying respect than listening attentively to what people have to say. Lean forward to show interest....
When listening, use your eyes as well as your ears.
We communicate with our whole body and our actions and behaviours must be consistent with what we are saying. Although the oft-used figures that came from Albert Mehrabian’s experiments have been convincingly debunked long ago, it is normally agreed that our body...
Are you feeling overwhelmed?
When we are confronted with multiple priorities, all of which seem to be urgent, we sometimes freeze – like a deer caught in the headlights. It’s a case of paralysis by analysis as we try to decide where to start. If this happens to you, stop and take a deep breath,...
How time is lost.
Microsoft Corporation’s study of people working found that on average, they were interrupted 4 times per hour, and a distracted worker takes nearly a half hour to get back to and continue a task. 28% of a typical worker’s day is taken up by interruptions and recovery...
Time Management Bulletin #4
Manage your email through self-discipline. Handling email is one activity that you must control if you are going to master technology. It seems to be increasing exponentially for most people. With the mobility of today’s workforce and work itself being more a state of...
Time Management Bulletin #3
Is the Internet making us stupid? We tend to ridicule those who print articles from the web instead of reading them in electronic format where they may be accompanied by links to supporting information, images and videos. But according to Nicholas Carr, author of The...
Time management Bulletin #2
A balanced life requires planning. Regardless of whether we are on a flexible hour system, or we’re a telecommuter or a frequent flyer, the line between work and personal time has become blurred. We can work in the evening, in a car or at a ball park. Work is no...
Time Management Bulletin
How to Decide Mark McCormack, in his book, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam, 1984), gives some good advice on decision-making. He claims that many times we actually make a decision without realizing it, even as we are still trying to come...
How to keep on top of your work
The more things in your life that you leave undone, the more anxiety and stress you experience. Completed work does not produce stress. People feel great and are energized when they get things done. It’s the uncompleted items that distract them and drain their energy....