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How to Defend Your Classroom and Protect Your Students from a Shooter

It sickens me to no end that I even need to share this information about how to protect your students from a shooter, but I feel compelled to. If you’re a teacher looking for an active shooter classroom defense system without the back story, scroll down for my materials list. But I think the public…

How to Schedule Meetings with People in Different Time Zones

  Recently I was asked to participate in a meeting with people from four different time zones. Three of the time zones were in the United States. That can be tricky to schedule, but it’s not overly difficult. The fourth time zone, however, was in Asia with 17.5 hours difference. The gentleman in charge of…

Productivity Tip – Setting Up a Real Estate Business

A client of mine has been researching starting up a real estate business. She knows that I have experience in this area both from personally being involved in this kind of venture, as well as working with clients in the real estate field. Based on this, she asked that one of our sessions focus on…

Considerations for Back to School Schedules – Productivity Tips

Whether you have school-age children or not, there are scheduling factors to take into consideration with the start of the upcoming school year just around the corner. In the past, I shared these back-to-school considerations and recommendations later in August, but given that more and more school districts are starting much earlier than the once-traditional…

Additional Productivity Tips – Should you stay in contact with the office while on vacation?

  In last week’s post, we asked and answered three questions about: Should you stay in contact with the office while on vacation? This is a question that was recently posed by a reporter for Fox News. With COVID hospitalization rates decreasing and travel increasing in 2022, it’s the perfect time to revisit this topic.…

Productivity Question – Should you stay in contact with the office while on vacation?

Should you stay in contact with the office while on vacation? This is a question that was recently posed by a reporter for Fox News. Given that COVID hospitalizations, thankfully, were on the downturn as 2022 rolled forward, the world opened up for travel. More and more people are moving beyond staycations and back to…

Cyber Security Update – Text Scams aka Smishing

  The ultimate goal of productivity is to operate as effectively and efficiently as possible, so you live life on your terms. One way to maintain your productivity levels is to avoid cyber security implosions because having to deal with one of those situations will cost you a great deal of time and resources.   The…

Finish 2022 Successfully – with Strategic Planning

    In each month’s time management tips e-newsletter that I create for my list, I include holidays to be aware of for the upcoming three months. As I typed up my July newsletter draft, I opened up the October section of my calendar. That’s right. October! The end of the year will be here…

THIS Is How to Set Expectations

  Many clients and workshop participants share with me that they have a difficult time letting people know that they’re in the middle of something, so they end up dropping everything to answer that person’s question, react to the request or shoot the breeze with them. These folks say they don’t want to be rude…

Do 15 Minute Meetings Actually Work? – Part 2

  A few weeks back, I shared information about the concept of 15-minute meetings. The journalist working on the story asked two additional questions, the answers to which I’ll share with you here. This was the original topic request about 15-minute meetings: “A new trend is developing in corporate circles called the ‘15-minute meeting’, which…