The ABCDE Method for Setting Priorities Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Your ability to plan and organize your work, in advance, so you are always working on your highest value tasks determines your success as much as any other factor. The ABCDE Method for Priorities The process of setting…
How To Interview Effectively Most executives have never been taught how to properly interview for a position. Fortunately, the most effective interviewing process is quite simple, as long as you can discipline yourself to learn it and then follow it. Don’t Start Selling Until You Have Decided to Buy In other words, resist the temptation…
Keeping Yourself Positive The most important thing you do for your success is to take control of the suggestive elements in your environment. Be sure that what you are seeing and listening to is consistent with the goals you want to achieve. Listen Your Way to Success Listen to educational audio programs in your…
Six Steps to Effective Delegation To delegate effectively in your work with others, there are six steps that you can take. If you neglect any one of these steps, you run the risk of misunderstanding, demoralization, and poor performance. Step 1: Match the Person to the Job One of the great time wasters in the…
Look on the Bright Side The most important application of the Law of Cause and Effect in your life is this: Thoughts are causes, and conditions are effects. What this means is that your thought is creative. You create your world by the way you think. Nothing in your world has any meaning except for…
Slice and Dice the Task Why You Procrastinate A major reason for procrastinating on big, important tasks is that they appear so large and formidable when you first approach them. One technique that you can use to cut a big task down to size is the “Salami slice” method of getting work done. With this…
The Benefits of Pausing First, you avoid running the risk of interrupting if the other person is just catching his or her breath before continuing.
The very worst use of your time is to do what need not be done at all. The Pareto Principle says that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of the value of your activities. This means that, if you have a list of ten items to accomplish, two of those items will be…
