If I had the solution to give to human resource managers to ensure maximum productivity from their company’s employees, I would be a millionaire several times over.
Statistics about productivity dominate articles about international competitiveness with the productivity of American workers compared to workers across the globe. Businesses everywhere would love to get their hands on the magical solution to keeping …
Part of the decluttering process will leave you with items to get rid of that contain materials that can be responsibly recycled in an environmentally friendly way. Only 12.5% of American electronics are recycled each year and you should help increase that number. Many home electronics contain harmful toxins that can disperse through ground water and air pollution and …
A tickler file is a filing system based on an idea outlined in David Allen’s book about Getting Things Done, or GTD. The filing system involves 31 slots or folders for each numbered day of the month, with 12 folders for each month of the year. These 43 folders serve as a system for filing important pieces of paper for …
Meetings can be a time sinkhole and a major productivity killer. There’s always the risk that the agenda suffers from a lack of planning, people get off track, and “that guy” in the office who loves to hear himself talk will cause the meeting to drag on longer than anyone would like.
Time to make meetings more productive with a great …
Congress and the public are feverishly debating health care reform and flu season is looming — and it’s the perfect time to organize first aid, medicines and your health care documentation.
The first step to organizing your first aid supplies and medicines is establishing a central location in your home for all of your materials. My personal solution is a basic …
Here at OPTED Magazine, many readers are iPhone users and seek information about iPhone apps that will help increase productivity. I’ve reviewed another goal tracking app called iAchieve, which was developed by Goce Petrovski and released on September 29, 2009.
What does the app do?
This iPhone app allows the user to track achievements that contribute to their goals, for instance quitting …
Material possessions mean something different at all stages of our lives. Some possessions evoke a memory and others a perceived necessity. But at many of our life stages the concepts of “need” and “want” take on different meanings as we begin to evaluate the growing volume of material objects that we collect.
Clutter in our homes is a direct result of …
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