An element of personal and organizational productivity is time management. The change to Daylight Savings Time demonstrates just how important even a single hour can be! Early Sunday morning, the nation’s clocks will spring forward—and even though our brains know that the time on the clock has changed, our internal body clock doesn’t. The consequences [...]
Kayla looked down at her “Manager of the Year” award and smiled. It felt good to be recognized for the long hours and hard work. She knew she couldn’t have done it without the support of her team—but, if you asked her team, they wouldn’t have done anything without Kayla leading the way by changing [...]
Years ago, a ‘contact manager’ was known as a Rolodex—a sort of rotating file device that sat on your desk and contained specially-shaped index cards. Each card held the contact information of a person or a company. A well-maintained Rolodex took a lot of effort and was considered essential to business success. In fact, business [...]
The review at the end of the day... Somedays you wonder how you even made it through! The deluge of emails, overwhelming demands for your time and attention, constantly trying to do more with less—all leave you exhausted.You have meetings, phone calls, texts, tweets, blogs, all pulling you into the whirlpool and diminishing your ability [...]
Zoe’s day looked hectic—so much to get done, and most of it had to be accomplished away from the office—and away from her laptop. For example, on her way to meet with a client, she needed to swing by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Then, she had a late lunch with a new [...]
It turns out that what makes people happy comes down to one small four-letter word... Happiness—“the quality or state of being happy”—has been in the news a lot lately, hasn’t it? Books and articles written, conferences held, memes created… you name it—which is exactly as it should be. We should all be pursuing what makes [...]
Businesses, like living organisms, experience predictable patterns of behavior as they grow and develop. And much like young organisms, they face many of the same specific challenges as they progress through the stages of their lifecycle, or business lifecycles. This post outlines the stages (or business lifecycles) that a typical company will go through and highlights [...]
Let's face it – we're all busy and face many interruptions, and that can make time management difficult--no matter how diligent we are about organizing, scheduling, and rescheduling our tasks. Having a routine schedule can make it easier to streamline and group our tasks and activities, but not every profession or job lends itself to [...]
No-Nonsense Examples of Foolproof CRM Sales Processes Defining a sales process is both an art and a science. Or, should I say...a science, then an art. Good sales processes are both simple and comprehensive. They are easy to understand and also easy to scale. Scaleable sales processes are one of the most critical components of [...]
One of the most important rites of passage that your company will go through on your way to developing a scalable sales system is developing a sales process. A repeatable, trainable, scalable sales process is the one thing that can take your company from mediocre to meteoric. Here are a few simple rules to use [...]
PlanPlus Online has gone through some major transformations of the user interface in the past year. In fact, this is not the first time we’ve revamped the UI, and it will not be the last time. We’re constantly improving your product, and the timeless principles of good time management and user interface best practices continue [...]
We’re excited to give a sneak peek at our upcoming native apps for iOS and Android devices, coming 2016. Each app will be a truly native mobile app for managing your Productivity; Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Daily Notes, and Planning features to help you reach your goals. Available for iOS and Android in 2016 ABC-123 Task [...]
