Email Management: Stay on top of your Inbox Print E-mail

Here are some facts about email management today:

 

  1. Average business user spends 2+ hours a day dealing with email
  2. Seventy per cent of senior managers find the daily torrent of email stressful
  3. The average worker receives 48 to 75 emails per day, with many workers now receiving 200 to 300

 

(Source: news.com.au 14/4/2009)

By the very nature of my job I send and receive a large number of emails each day. I strive to keep my inbox empty. It is a great feeling to have a clean inbox, a feeling of peace and calm and satisfaction. I can highly recommend the following tips to everyone...

 
Counter Offers – why it's too late... Print E-mail

For most people, when they decide to look for a new job it is due to either one of two compelling motivations:

 

1.    The positive reason of seeking new challenges, career growth or other opportunities that have not been forthcoming or available in their current employment. You are essentially being pulled to a new job by positive and productive factors.

2.    More common is the desire to leave your current employment due to negative factors. These can include lack of career growth or future for you, insufficient financial reward for your efforts, poor culture or bad management, hours worked or a myriad of other reasons that make you unhappy. It is essentially negative factors in this role/organisation that is pushing you to seek a better home.

 
Interview Tips and Advice Print E-mail

The cliché is true – you only get one chance to make a first impression. First impressions are powerful. An initial impression has more of an impact than people realise. Employers often use the interview as a way to confirm their first impression of you. You can turn this to your advantage by making a positive first impression, which in turn, sets a favourable tone for what happens during your interview. Your goal is to create the aura of an individual who is confident, self-assured and gracious. The way you dress frames the picture - the way you behave colours the portrait of who you are...