by Leonie Visser | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
Working Efficiently From Home! In the long distant past working from home was a definite “No!” and it is easy to understand why: Most people had their own office with a door. In the worst case you were forced to share the room with another colleague. We as...
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 Magnusson | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
To file or not to file #1 As we all know there are three main ways of storing digital information: filing, piling or tagging. When filing we put things in a hierarchically organised folder system. With piling we dump everything in one archive folder and use the search...
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...