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How do you combine vacation with email?
The meaning of ‘vacation’ is very personal: where some like to raft down a high mountain, others seek peace and quiet, or just a holiday destination with children’s entertainment. So it is with the combination of work and vacation- because whether you are an employee or an independent professional, you will have to make choices…
Working smarter in a shared inbox
There are plenty of mailboxes managed by multiple people. These do not have to be just secretariats; even at a housing association, an IT department or customer service, people work together on messages that arrive at one central address. Together with my Management Support colleague Roel Peeters, I wrote an article for Management Support Magazine…
Getting rid of the mess on your to do-list
One of the basic principles of working smarter is: get everything out of your head. The purpose of your brain is to think, not to store stuff to remember. But when you’ve cleared your mind and have a long action list… What do you do then? Prevent your action list from becoming a mess. Bring…
Optimal channel management
In these digital times, keeping an eye on all the channels through which you receive information – whether or not it involves action on your part – is quite a task: you surf through the channels and see what’s inside. As the recipient of all these messages, it’s up to you to juggle, filter, and…
Making online meetings more efficient and more effective
We are all in the same boat: online meetings… After a year of this pandemic the virtual meeting has become a staple in the daily life of most knowledge workers. How can you make those meetings more efficient and more effective? The unlucky ones even find that the majority of their working day is used…
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Working from home effectively and efficiently during a pandemic
Not because you can, but because you have to. Are recent developments regarding the COVID-19 virus also causing you to work from home? And are you someone who rarely did that in the past, or even not at all? Then you may wonder how on earth you will manage to work from home effectively and…
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