Joan Burge's Administrative Blog

What can you do when everything that is added to your “to-do” list is a Hot, Hot, Hot – Urgent – A1 priority? Take a step back and assess the situation. Next follow these steps to keep your priorities in perspective.

The skill you need to develop if you want to live a happier, more satisfying professional and personal life is the ability to ask the "what ifs" that can see you through a blip in your day or a catastrophe.

I'm sure many of you are engrained in March Madness. Even if you are not a big basketball fan like me, it is still all around you. But I think there is another kind of March Madness. I'm seeing it and hearing it every day as business picks up. It is great to see organizations, managers, executives and their staff getting busier and busier. With that comes the need for all parties to pick up their pace, work smarter and faster, respond quicker, and keep things moving at a record pace.

Here it is--March 1st already! We all hear how time flies and it truly does. It seems to go by faster each year. When you were a child, do you remember adults telling you, "The older you get, the faster time goes"? I certainly do. So is it that we are really getting older or just that the pace of our lifestyle is faster in 21st century?

Do you feel like December is just a blur of days? Monday runs into Tuesday, Tuesday runs into Wednesday and so forth? Are things lightening up for you at work, or at they actually intensifying?

GUEST POST FROM NANCY FRAZE: The same principals governing wise use of our money applies to time as well.

GUEST POST FROM NANCY FRAZE: If you thought this article concerns finance, a bear market or 401Ks, you’d be wrong. If you figured it concerned budgeting… you’d be halfway there. The new economics I refer to are in reference to time. How should we invest the limited resource of time we’ve each been given to yield the greatest return?

“In court papers, PepsiCo claims it first received a legal document related to the case from the North Carolina agent on Sept 15 when a copy of the co-defendant’s letter was forwarded to Deputy General Counsel Tom Tamoney in PepsiCo’s law department. Tamoney’s secretary, Kathy Henry, put the letter aside and didn’t tell anyone about it because she was “so busy preparing for a board meeting.”

Are you in shock? I certainly was when I read my Training magazine September issue. It says, “A company with 100 employees can expect to lose approximately $450,000 a year, or more, because of e-mail blunders, inefficiencies, and misunderstandings, according to The Top 10 E-mail Blunders That Cost Companies Money, a free special report from Creative Communications & Training."

The webinar/video regarding time management was a brief one and it left many viewers asking for more on this topic. Here are some quick tips on the subject.