Your email may be eating into your productivity. Here are some Golden Rules when managing your emails.
In any working week many of us are spending up to 20% of our time reviewing and processing emails. In many cases workflow is simply being pushed around the organisation for no tangible gain.
Here are some rules to save […]
Assuming that you know how to present the best side in the interview process, and there are myriads of articles on this topic, the important step is to avoid making a poor decision once you have been offered a new position
Do your homework
Make sure the next organisation is going to be a better fit, or […]
Far too many of us are caught firefighting all the time. Never getting enough time to plan to make the future a better place.
During an overseas speaking tour, I was with a good friend one Sunday afternoon, visiting a church fair. We had run out of things to do. Among the stalls was a person […]
The father of time management could be Stephen Covey. In his book “First thing’s first”, he observed that great leaders appear less stressed and seemed to have more time on their hands. He adopted the Eisenhower matrix which helps to sort tasks based on the principals of urgency and importance. When assigned to each task, […]
This is an extract from a book called ‘Don’t say I never told you’.
Create a story
Presentation planning
Last-minute slide presentations are a career-limiting activity. You would not hang your dirty washing in front of a hundred people, so why would you want to show your audience sloppy slides? Only say “yes” to a presentation if you have the time, […]
I consider abandonment as one of the most important gifts bestowed on us by Peter Drucker. It is unusual that such a profound concept should have been left unnourished by so many writers who followed in his footsteps. Amongst the overgrown and chaotic jumble within an organisation Drucker saw a clear pathway to freedom, innovation […]
The first circle in the diagram tells us to focus on an area where we can be a world expert. This is not as hard as it sounds, providing you look for a field specific to your experiences, where you have already made progress. Make sure it’s free from competing experts, then get your 10,000 […]
30 Years vs 15 Years of Payments on a mortgage of $400,000 at a 5% interest rate
30 Years of Payments
15 Years of Payments
15 years paid fortnightly
Monthly Payment
$2,147
$3163
$1582 fortnightly
Total Interest
$373,000
$169,000
$148,000
I am not kidding, this is what you will eventually do, if you are clever. To get a mortgage you may sign yourself up to the devil, […]
HEALTH WARNING. This section is complex. Just invest time and effort to understand this if you genuinely want to be ‘an independent woman around town’. Your savings security may well depend on your understanding this section. Otherwise, you will be vulnerable to people in the finance sector.
Girls I know you are already playing on the […]
Know your credit score
Your credit score is one of the biggest factors in what your loan terms will be. Know your score before you ever try to get a loan, and take the time to repair it as there will be errors ( 4 out of 5 contains errors). Noticed a small mistake? No […]