Tips of the week

Working smarter; not harder make perfect sense!

Seven ideas to increase your success in managing your time include:

1. Start with your “A” priorities.
2. Never work on a “B” until all your “A”s are completed.
3. Don’t encourage others to engage you.
4. Offer an alternative when you say no – except if your boss is asking never say no.
5. If your boss is asking, say “happy to do that for you” however here’s what I planned.
6. Organize your work area every day.
7. Train others how to find answers for themselves.

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On the telephone, your message comes mostly from the way that you sound.

Seven ideas to increase your success with the telephone include:

1. 80% of the message comes from the way you say it.
2. Smile when you speak.
3. Stay unemotional
4. Focus on solving problems.
5. Focus on what you can do, not on what you can’t do.
6. Ask for feedback on how you sound from people you trust.
7. End every call with a statement of future plans.

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Problem-solving skills add to your leadership ability!

Eleven ideas to increase your success in problem-solving include:

1. State the problem in the form of different questions.
2. Identify the facts you need to decide?
3. Visualize the solution.
4. Ask yourself what will be resolved.
5. Ask yourself what’s key.
6. List the causes of the problem.
7. Generate many solutions to each cause.
8. Evaluate and select possible solutions
9. Compare your choices to step 2 and 3.
10. Implement.
11. Evaluate

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Change happens no matter what!

Five ideas to help you move from your reality to a new reality.

1. See change as positive.
2. See change as an opportunity.
3. See the value of change.
4. Search for the value.
5. Work to make change natural for you.

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To question is to learn, engage, build commitment and empower.

Ten ideas to increase your success in asking questions include:

1. Record information provided.
2. Remember short notes are better than long memory.
3. Phrase questions you pose positively.
4. Ask: “How can I help?”
5. Ask: “What would you do?”
6. Ask: What would a calm person do?
7. Ask: What would a professional do?
8. Ask: “What do you think we should do?”
9. Ask: “What is our competition doing?”
10. Ask: “How can we do it better?”

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Complete highest priority tasks first without exception!

Five ideas to increase your success in dealing with crisis include:

1. Stay in control with good daily habits.
2. Track, time frames, due dates, impact, and responsibilities.
3. Delegate whatever you can.
4. Stay on top of any additional ‘A” priorities
5. Develop plans & strategies to prevent any problems from

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A problem-solving strategy will improve the success of your decisions.

Seven ideas to increase your success in problem-solving include:

1. State the issue in the form of a question.
2. Identify the basis to make the decision
3. Consider all of the causes of the problem.
4. Generate possible solutions.
5. Determine the best solution(s) using the solution criteria identified in step 2.
6. Implement
7. Evaluate the success of your decision

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Ask lots of questions to demonstrate interest, show concern and gain information which leads to power.

Six ideas to increase your ability to ask questions include:

1. Keep questions short and simple – that means no more than 10 words.
2. Ask only one question at a time.
3. Consider what is the right time to ask,
4. Ask in the right manner.
5. Ask the right person.
6. Start with an “open” question to generate information.  i.e. “Tell me …?” or How…? or What…?

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The ability to make decisions can be developed!

Six ideas to increase your success in decision-making include:

1. Practice making decisions without all the information.
2. Make a habit of learning from mistakes.
3. Stop from overthinking.
4. Place a dollar value of each decision?
5. Set a time limit to consider solutions; then make a decision.
6. Once you’ve decided move forward

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Stop inviting interruptions!

Three ideas to increase your success in reducing invitations to interrupt you include:

1. Don’t respond to, “how are you”, in detail.
2. Don’t’ encourage others to “call any time”.
3. Tell people you’re “working on a deadline”.

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