Many people find it a challenge to successfully juggle their stressful lives and responsibilities in order to achieve their objectives within the 24 hours each day has to offer. You might find you fall into this category and need some useful tips to help you manage your time more efficiently and productively. By employing a few vital fundamentals to guide you, you can be well on your way to achieving successful time management in almost no time...more
As a Product Manager you will always have far more work to get done than you can possibly get to. Between thinking strategically and driving things related to your products from a high level to executing the day-to-day tactical work required for product success, you will have a full list of to-do items and plenty of requests that go unfulfilled. Ivan Chalif has an interesting post related to this and life balance in his blog, the...more
The first productivity-killing topic we will talk about is email. Even though I cant see or hear you I imagine theres a big groan when we talk about email. I get 120-140 emails a day. If you dont have a system for email it will overwhelm you and break your spirit. I handle email with a number of tactics. First, I make an absolute commitment to myself to not continuously process (i.e. read, respond and react) email throughout the day. Notice I said process and not check.I process email three times a day. I come in a few minutes early just to do this, uninterrupted, in the morning. Then I process it right after lunch and then again at the end of the day. I use a Blackberry with email access to check for urgent messages and changed or cancelled meetings and prune my messages along the way. If theres something thats absolutely critical, Ill address it but I am careful to not fall into the trap of falling into constant email fire drills. Each processing session takes approximately 15 minutes, and I try to limit my email work to less than an hour a day.Heres the way I go about processing my email. First, I make a commitment that Im going to get through it as quickly as I can. Then I...more
This tip is going to dramatically cut down your stress level work from only one mastere To Do list. Once you try this you will find that it is a very different way of working. If you think about it, right now you probably have a few voicemails on your cell phone. You might also have voicemails on your business land line. Youve got some emails,...more
How to Reduce Time in MeetingsFew things can boost your productivity more than cutting down on the amount of time you spend in meetings. If you want to buy yourself a few extra minutes (or hours) each day to work on important priorities this is an area to focus on.Here are a few suggestions:1.Make the meetings that you run be 30 minutes rather than...more
Document management Chicago is concerned with product code management.Documentation is the authored text that characterizes a product. It presents the product purchasers with assistance in employing the product and aids their process of being accustomed to that package.It includes product specifications, explanation of the product structure, reference manuals, lessons, troubleshooting information as well as code documentation if perhaps it is a software item. For the document to be useful, it needs to be composed with clarity as well as precision. It needs to carry clear as well as consistent guidelines about the item.The code documentation needs to carry an explicit demonstration of the actions executed by the product code, the functionality given by the code plus its aim. Product code might not be perceived by an ordinary user. For buyers to learn the code, it should be supplemented with correct documentation.Documentation helps describe to the consumers, the functions done by the product plus the ways to use its capabilities. Documentation guides the consumers to perform actions on the merchandise and shows them the right way to complete them. Today, product documentation is...more
Once primarily viewed as sales support, Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) now sit at the center of multiple activities. Organizations leverage MSLs unique combination of scientific expertise and relationship-building acumen to build thought leader...more
Once primarily viewed as sales support, Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) now sit at the center of multiple activities. Organizations leverage MSLs unique combination of scientific expertise and relationship-building acumen to build thought leader...more
Bills are waiting for you in your mailbox and you know it, time to think about debt management and banish the fear of walking through your mailbox every morning. Debts can be compared to termites; if you don't kill the colony, your house will fall to...more
To face the pace of the competitive market, hiring or recruiting of best performing employees has become vital for every organization. Bringing the human resource and the goals of an organization together is the key to achieve success in terms of...more
In todays cut-throat competition, it has become all the more essential to develop and retain the key talent. It is a proven fact that once your employees feel recognized and valued, they come out with more productivity and thus, share in the...more
After releasing the loans borrowers apply for, the collection of the after payment can sometimes become so difficult. The thing is, while the loan is still under process, a borrower will be all willing to comply to anything the mender has to say, but...more