by Leonie Visser | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog
You are going to fire me unless I do WHAT? “Things never stay the same. They either get better or they get worse.” – U.S Army Aviation manual. Johan, who worked in the facilities department in an international Swedish company, was being interviewed by HR. He had...
by Leonie Visser | Dec 20, 2019 | Blog
Why do I always get passed up for promotion? The vast majority of us open up our email first thing in the morning. It’s natural, we are curious and we dive straight in, some of us even do it the moment our eyes are open. “My partner has her mobile on her bedside...
by Leonie Visser | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
The ‘beep’ tray. It never stops to amaze me. No, not the mountain of emails in the inbox of a PEP client. That is just a symptom of a deeper problem. It is that persistent absence of effective software tools that can be used for proactive planning. More...
by Leonie Visser | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog
To file or not to file #2 n a previous blog about piling, filing or tagging I described how you can use Boolean operators for more effective searching in Outlook. Smart use of the NOT operator in particular can make a lot of difference. But what if you need to search...
by Leonie Visser | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog
Information Overload By now we all know what it is like to be inundated with too much information. As if it wasn’t bad enough that it assaults us at our work stations, we then decide to carry it around in our pockets too. The result is that there is no time to focus...