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Articles Index

General Time Management Strategies

• Are You Reading as Many Books as You'd Like?  (1,119 words)
• Efficiency Lessons From A Taxi Driver (283 words)
• Eight Top Time Tips (828 words)
• Have You Got a Minute? - Interruptions, the Bane of Our Life  (799 words)
• How Long Does it Take to Become Efficient? (1,155 words) 
• How to Manage a Busy Workload (784 words)
• How to Read More and Faster (1,154 words)
• How We Process Time (1,398 words)
• How We Process Time (734 words) 
• Procrastinate! – Who, Me? (1,285 words)
• That's the Way We Do It Round Here (417 words) 
• The Magic of Chunking - How to Break the Job into Bite-Size Pieces (1,158 words)
• Time Management? What’s the Guts of It? (723 words)
• Time-Saving Computer Keystrokes (894 words)
• What the Cleanup Uncovered - a Smorgasbord of Time-Saving Tips! (653 words)
• Which Diary or Planner Should I Use? (768 words)   
• Who Controls the Interruptions?   (557 words)    

Meetings and How to Improve Them

• Key Points for Effective Meetings ( 246 words)
• Not Another Meeting! (862 words)  
• Privileged Soapbox? How to be an Effective Chairperson  (348 words)
• The Power of a Good Agenda (666 words)

Paper and Information Handling

• An Easy Method to Keep Your Desk Clear of 'Stuff' (731 words)
• How to Always Have a Tidy Office (or House, or Garage!)  (578 words)
• How to Beat the Physical Graffiti!  (303 words)
• How to Decide What to Do Next (1,213 words)
• On Putting Like With Like - The Sorting Strategy (915 words) 
• People With Messy Desks Don’t Know How to Make Decisions!? (808 words)
• What can We Throw, so Murphy Doesn't Come Back to Bite Us? (1,380 words) 
• What Treasures are Hidden in Your Office Drawers?  (1,083 words)  

 Work-Life Balance 

• Are You Wearing Too Many Hats? (671 words)
• How to Keep All the Balls in the Air - Managing Work and Home  (777 words)
• How to Stretch Time - 24 Hours is Enough  (842 words)
• Society's Got the Speed Wobbles, and How to Fix It (1,315 words)
• What is Work? (831 words)
• Who's Responsible for Work/Life Balance? (820 words)
• Why do We Work Such Long Hours? (581 words)
• 23 Simple Strategies to Keep You Sane, Happy and Healthy  (329 words)

Email Management

• A Smorgasbord of Handy E-mail Hints (926 words)
• Beware – Email Can Steal Your Best Time (928 words)
• How to Have Less Email in Your Inbox and get Home Earlier (672 words)
• How to Keep Your Inbox Empty (1216 words)
• How To Use Email Signatures To Save Up To 30 Minutes Per Day  (274 words)
• How to Write Emails and Other Electronic Information that People Love to Read (1,326 words) 
• More Email Efficiency Tips   (1,035 words)  
• Simple Email Tips (849 words)
• The E-mail Dance and How to Cyber-Swing with Grace and Manners! (1,161 words)   

Delegation

• But I TOLD You…..! – Keys to Effective Delegation (966 words)
• Delegate To Grow Your Business  (240 words)  
• Have You Got a Minute?... (570 words)
• How To Hire The Right People  (871 words)
• Who to Delegate to, Even When You’ve Got No-One (684 words)
• 4 Stages of Delegation  (781 words)

Employee Management

• Dealing with Employee Mistakes (558 words)
• Tea Breaks Are Good Business (839 words)
• Tips on How to Defuse a Volatile Situation (726 words)

Hot Tips for Higher Productivity

• Daily Planning Made Simple – Don’t Start with the Easy Jobs! (571 words)
• When Mistakes Are Okay (613 words)

Leadership

• Role Models Can Be Our Most Powerful Teachers (995 words)

Life Lessons From The Road

• Change Is A Shape Shifter (1,024 words)
• Networking Abundance  (965 words)
• The Angel In Disguise  (548 words)
• The Power of a Good Story (872 words)

Public Speaking

• 10 Tips to Help Diminish Your Public Speaking Anxiety (574 words)

Specifically for Women

• Business Woman AND Super-Mum? It’s a Fiction (699 words)
• When Multi-Tasking Went Wrong – Lessons My Grandchildren Taught Me (666 words)
• You Don't Have to Marry a Rich Man (830 words)

Paper, Storage and Information Handling

• How to Manage the Filing Monster (1,314 words)
• Is It Good For You? - Your Environment, I Mean! (1,570 words)
• Now Where Shall We Put This? (861 words)

Work-Life Balance

• How to Retain that Holiday Feeling! (701 words)
• Where's The Time For Me? (1,079 words)
• Yes, there is Life Outside of School! (906 words)

Leadership

• Great Leaders Create a Climate of Ownership (808 words)
• Now I See Clearly, the Path is Clear (850 words)
• To Lead Others, First Know Yourself (1,189 words)

Values - Attitudes

• Can We Teach Values and Attitude? They Are in Christchurch (1,227 words)
• Values-Based Teaching Saves Time! (1,210 words)

Communication and IT

• Technology – Time Saver or Time Stealer? (774 words)

A Point of View from Robyn

• Fair Boundaries to Support Administration Staff (722 words)
• Hire the Best Staff, Particularly Your Secretary (670 words)
• How to Keep Good Staff (727 words)
• Support Staff are Professionals Too (867 words)
• The Challenges of a Four-Term Year – How Can We Squeeze It All In? (1,213 words)
• Two Common Delegation Mistakes and How to Fix Them (429 words)

Farming Sector

General Time Management Strategies

• How Changed Thinking Cut Spring Stress (611 words)
• How to Save Reading Time (731 words)
• ‘I Never Seem to Get to the Big Jobs!’ (661 words)
• In Order to go Faster, First we Must go Slower (777 words)
• On Getting Things Done Fast (656 words)
• Spend Time to Save Time - Jason’s Time-Saving Delegation Technique (537 words)
• The Number One Key to Great Time Management (640 words)

Paper and Information Handling

• Simple Steps to Make Your Farm or Home Office More Efficient (624 words)
• Sorting Paper’s as Important as Stock (602 words)

Work-Life Balance

• Can We Be Good Farmers and Still Have a Life? (1,017 words)
• How to Unclutter Your Mind – Powerful Weekly Planning (526 words)

Communication

• A Simple Way to Turn Snail Email into a World Class Connection (518 words)

A Point of View from Robyn

• But it’s Quicker to do it Myself! The Four Stages of Delegation (755 words)
• The Curse of Diversification (827 words)

HR and Training Providers

General Time Management Strategies

• Become a Trend Changer - Notice What Others Are Doing and Go In the Opposite Direction (1,378 words)
• In Order To Go Faster, First We Must Go Slower (474 words)
• There ARE Enough Hours in the Day (801 words)

Work-Life Balance

• Get Your Life Back (1,006 words)
• Is Work-Place Fatigue Stealing Your Company Profits? (967 words)

Leadership

• Mentoring Leaders - No-One is Indispensable (1,013 words)

Other People's Excellent Articles (reproduced with permission)

• Manage Your Energy versus Time Management - by Teya Skae (1,748 words)