How do you approach problem solving or product creation in your home office when it requires original thought or creative solutions? Do you bang it out right away? Do you wait until the last minute to get it done? The suggestion “sleep on it” has some real merit according to neuroscience. When do ideas or…There’s more. Click here.
Time Management, Productivity and Creativity
Your time is limited, productivity expectations are increasing; all while you have to come up with creative solutions.
Tips include:
• Time Management
• Workspace Set-up
• Procrastination Busters
• Work-Life Balance
• Effective Communication
Home Office Productivity Myth: Power Through Your Slumps.
December 11, 2012 By
If you think that you need to keep your nose to the grindstone, no matter how you feel, to get that task done, you are mistaken. That is our Puritan heritage speaking, not modern science. A growing number of studies that demonstrate breaks enhance overall productivity. This applies to remote workers, telecommuters and freelancers. In…There’s more. Click here.
Remote Workers and Self-Employed: 4 Tips on How to Manage Your Boss and Your Clients for Improved Productivity
November 14, 2012 By
Tips on communicating and coordinating with your boss (for remote workers) and clients (for free-lancers and self-employed) for improved productivity. A recent article in Newsday, Small Business: Managing Remote Workers about how to manage remote workers gave me some ideas on how to turn that advice 180 degrees into how to manage your boss and/or…There’s more. Click here.
3 Tips on Home Office Set-Up for Original Thinking and Strategic Planning
October 22, 2012 By
I am currently reading George Lois’ book Damn Good Advice (for people with talent): How to Unleash Your Creative Potential by America’s Mass Communicator. Lois revolutionized advertising and mass communications. Sixty years later he is still challenging us to think and act creatively in the service of spreading enlightened thinking. This book is not just…There’s more. Click here.
3 Tips to Set Priorities and Achieve Your Business Building Goals
October 1, 2012 By
Working from a home office has the distractions for which you feel personally responsible: Picking-up your kids after school and getting them to their various activities, friends asking for favors because you are at home (you’re not really working), or doing that last load of laundry. Add to that the “normal” distractions of the home…There’s more. Click here.