How To Articles For Productive Home Bases Businesses

If you run a business from a home office, you know it can affect your productivity – find ideas here

Desktop Management

November 25, 2011

For some of us, working from home might mean our own office or it might mean the kitchen table. Regardless of where you work it is important to consider several desktop strategies to make your day more productive. The paperless desk. Remove all paperwork from your desk: establish files for your projects; reference folders for [...]

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Making time work for you

November 25, 2011

Time is one of our most precious assets when we work in a home office. If we don’t invest our time wisely we can easily get to the end of the day and wonder where the day went! Try some of these tips to help make your time work for you in your home based [...]

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Creating your connections

November 25, 2011

Networking is as much an attitude and a way of thinking as it is a skill. It is something that many people do naturally while others can find it quite daunting; but it can be learnt. When you acquire the mindset and master the skill of networking you will boost your personal productivity.There are any [...]

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Learning to share

November 25, 2011

Too often we think we are Supermen or women – able to do everything ourselves. We say things like “it would be quicker to do it myself” or “no one else would do it as well as I do” and we convince ourselves that we are irreplaceable. Working to become an indispensable asset to your [...]

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Working meetings

November 25, 2011

There’s one simple secret to effective meetings: set an agenda and stick to it. The agenda drives the content and outcomes of the meeting and, where appropriate, should reflect the needs of all attendees so everyone has a buy-in and an interest in the outcomes. Follow these simple steps for planning and running meetings and [...]

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Working networking

November 25, 2011

Getting the most out of any networking event is about more than just handing out and collecting cards. Some people seem to think the success of an event can be measured by the number of business cards they take away. The truth is it’s better to make real connections with fewer people, rather than to [...]

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