How To Break A Habit That Makes Your Life Miserable: An Exercise
How To Break A Habit That Makes Your Life Miserable: An Exercise by Michael Hoffman I stumbled upon Thomas Oppong’s article, Why Eliminating Behaviors That Make You Miserable Can Make You Happier, which references a book by Randy J. Paterson, Ph.D., How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use. I thought it could be helpful […]
To Use A Habit Tracker App Or Not To Use a Habit Tracker App
To Use A Habit Tracker App Or Not To Use a Habit Tracker App by Michael Hoffman Getting into a habit tracker app (apps that help us remember to study our Spanish, do our push-ups in the morning and drink at least 1½ liters of water) are springing up. Do they really work? That’s a question […]
Why “I Hate Email”, Echoes In Many Workplaces
Why “I Hate Email”, Echoes In Many Workplaces by Michael Hoffman Let’s not beat about the bush. “I hate email” is said under many a breath for one main reason (yes there are many others but I’m sure you’ll agree this tops the list): It sucks out huge swaths of time without giving us any idea […]
How To Improve Team Productivity and How To Measure It
How To Improve Team Productivity and How To Measure It by Michael Hoffman and Yasser Santiago This is where most companies succeed or fail. We’ve all seen big companies start from the ground up. Microsoft, Apple, Uber and many others have shown us that we can go from an idea to a successful business with the […]
Business Tips : How most people blow their first business meeting And How Can you save yours.
Business Tips: How most people blow their first business meeting and how can You save yours You land a meeting with a prospect that you’ve been researching for quite some time. Then you make the same mistake that most salespeople make: You book an hour-long meeting at her office, next thing you know, you blew […]
Why Leaders Are Blind To The Most Important Productivity Opportunity Of All
Why Leaders Are Blind To The Most Important Productivity Opportunity Of All by Michael Hoffman Email is the leading cause of preventable productivity loss in organizations today. Forbes Magazine (2008) Employees spend 1 to 3 or more hours per day managing email at 40-60% of capacity. That means they typically lose 30-60 minutes PER DAY. Not some. […]
Most salespeople completely blow their first newbiz meeting – including you
Most salespeople completely blow their first newbiz meeting – including you You land a meeting with a prospect that you’ve been researching for quite some time. Then you make the same mistake that most sales people make: you book an hour-long meeting at her office.What’s wrong with that? Plenty. The chances of converting that meeting […]
Guest blog: Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn?
Guest blog: Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn? Training successfully educates only those who are predisposed to the new material. Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn’t the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It’s a problem […]
Leadership Behaviors – Bad Habits That Hold You Back
a When there are conflicts in the workplace it is usually because of poor communication or interpersonal communication challenges. Leaders are challenged on a daily basis to interact effectively with others. The most successful leaders are emotionally intelligent agile. They know how to read people and are savvy in their communications. The good news is […]
How my small company cut in half our $3.2 million dollar inbox expense in just 12 minutes!
OK, I have a small company of only 200 employees, so $3.2 million is nothing. But imagine a company of 2,000 employees that spend 2 hrs. per day on email with an average annual salary of $70,000. That would mean that they spend OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY managing email. Since we all […]
LeanMail Friday Video 23 – A Conference Call in Real Life
A Conference Call in Real Life In this YouTube video you’ll relive those agonizing on-line meeting moments that make you want to pull out your hair! You’ll be jumping up and down shouting: “So true!”. Share this with colleagues – especially those who need some help in this area. Although it’s fun to poke fun […]
LeanMail Friday Video 19 – Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work Many thanks to our client, Mitch Sowards, from www.entrust.us.com (Managed IT Services in Texas), for providing this Friday’s fabulously entertaining video. We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires […]
