tips for better professional productivity
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Tips for Better Professional Productivity
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Are You Shovel Ready?
Inspired by Frederick Winslow Taylor & Bethlehem Steel
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Checklists
http://accesscle.lsuc.on.ca
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Hipster PDA
3” x 5” card
or
4 cards
per page
Samples from D*I*Y Planner 4UP editionhttp://www.diyplanner.com
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Interruptions
2 minutes lost each day
= 8+ hours a year
15 minutes lost each day
= 62+ hours a year
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When are your hot spots?
“Heat map”- Highlight productive
times- Highlight “down” times
Map from ProductiveFlourishing.com
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Integrate, automate
How connected are your systems?- Use your Microsoft Office or other suite’s built-in
connectivity- Insert Object- Mail Merge in Word from your Outlook contacts- Embed files, so that an update in one is reflected in both
Practice management software is designed to enable single point of input
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Search you
Use technology to find information fast- Desktop search tools
- Windows Desktop Search- Google Desktop- Copernic
- Search within your software
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Starter templates for your practice
office.microsoft.com
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Capture your time
Cut down on lost time, as in “where did it go?” with stop watch- Built into practice management software- Available as standalone software from Chrometa,
Element55- Point is not to bill more time
- What am I doing with my time (could I bill it?)- What can I do differently to use my time better?
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Sync or you are sunk
Lotus NotesMicrosoft Outlook
GoogleCalendar
Staff or OtherE-mailUser
calendar“feed”
GooSync
Companionlink
HotSync
ActiveSync
Companionlink
iTunes
Google Calendar
Sync
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THANK YOU!
Questions?