Smart Work

Smart Work
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Get ahead in your personal and professional life with crowd-pleasing communication skills Packed with advice on improving verbal and non-verbal communication skills alike, Communication Essentials For Dummies is a comprehensive, approachable guide to communication no one should be without. Utilising a core range of simple skills, this friendly guide shows you how easy it is to communicate effectively. You'll find out how to listen actively, establish rapport, communicate with credibility, manage communication in difficult situations and converse with ease using modern technology – and lots more. Great communication skills can make all the difference in your personal and professional life, but for those who tend to get a bit tongue-tied under pressure or just have a hard time asserting themselves, voicing thoughts coherently and confidently can be a sweat-inducing experience. Here, expert author Elizabeth Kuhnke takes the intimidation out of communication by sharing her top tips for successful communication in any situation. Discover how to get ahead in the workplace by mastering your communication skills Realise the benefits of active listening and the value of establishing rapport Understand how the use of effective communication skills can help you secure a new job offer Recognise how to use effective communication to negotiate your way to personal and professional success Whether you're looking to climb the corporate ladder, take on a new professional challenge or just want to improve your communication skills in personal and professional relationships, Communication Essentials For Dummies will have you listening, voicing and articulating your way to success in no time.

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Crowley Dermot. Smart Work

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Productivity in the 21st century

The integrated productivity system at a glance

Making the system work for you every day

The Smart Work roadmap – nine productivity skills

A note on leveraging technology

PART I. CENTRALISE YOUR ACTIONS

1. CONSOLIDATE YOUR WORK

Meetings vs tasks

Meeting tools – the shift from paper to electronic

Task tools – stuck in the 20th century

Centralise absolutely every action

Consider – Capture – Commit

Types of actions – hard to soft

Zoom in, zoom out

Use undated task lists

Capture mind clutter

2. SCHEDULE IT FORWARD

Decide when and schedule

Plan your time using a weekly workflow

Use action horizons

Focus on the start

Balance your workload

Don't dilute your task list

Next steps only, please

Track it back

Information at your fingertips

3. FOCUS YOUR DAY

Start each day with a daily plan

Highlight the critical work

Manage the change

Update the progress

KEY PRACTICE: PRIORITISING

PART II. ORGANISE YOUR INPUTS

4. REDUCE THE NOISE

Reduce email noise

Turn off the alerts

Check email proactively

Batch information emails

Delete decisively

Tell them to SSSH

Reduce the disruption of interruption

5. KEEP IT SIMPLE

Simplify your filing system

Learn to search

Make important emails easier to find

Take the pain out of archiving

File on the run

6. PROCESS TO EMPTY

Treat your inbox like your letterbox

Clear the backlog quickly – the Mount Rushmore technique

Schedule email actions

Be decisive

Process all your inputs

KEY PRACTICE: PROCESSING

PART III. REALISE YOUR OUTCOMES

7. IDENTIFY YOUR VALUE

Clarify your critical roles

Reconnect frequently

8. MAKE TIME TO PLAN

Build planning time into your schedule

Monthly planning

The Good, the Bad and the Great

Weekly ROAR planning

9. FIGHT FOR IMPORTANCE

Make it visible

Watch out for the procrastination pixie

Blocking strategies

Delegate early and well

KEY PRACTICE: PLANNING

NEXT STEPS

INDEX

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Dermot Crowley is a productivity author, speaker, coach, trainer and thought leader. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1993.

He has more than twenty years' experience working in the productivity training industry and has run his own business, Adapt Training Solutions, since 2002.

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When is everything needed? Now! ASAP! Yesterday! Five minutes ago! We are under great pressure to deliver everything instantly, and this constant urgency is affecting the quality of our work. It is causing reactivity in the workplace that is increasing stress levels, increasing working hours, and decreasing the quality of our thinking and outputs.

This reactivity has come to be accepted as the norm in many organisations. ‘But that's just the way it is around here’, they say. It's just how it is in global finance, the legal sector, the insurance industry, even in the consulting industry. Well, I don't agree. I do not accept that it has to be that way. I believe that to a large degree this urgency has been driven by the ‘instant’ nature of electronic communication. Certainly we need to ensure that we all work together with a sense of urgency to get things done. But have we gone too far with this, creating instead senseless urgency?

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