Kevin Crenshaw
30 June 2008
Q: “I have an email that I want to send as a task to somebody else. How can I do this?”
A: Before I explain how to do it, let me caution as a productivity coach. Just making a task show up in someone’s task list isn’t always the best idea. It’s usually best to forward the email and ask them to accept the assignment.
If you’re not getting good results that way, then their email handling and/or workflow management may need help, and I’d recommend TRO training for them. TRO is a highly simplified yet more powerful approach to GTD principles, and it’s as little as $59. See Tim Kwiatkowski’s great review of TRO for an overview.
So what exactly are the problems with auto-assigning tasks to people, and how do you tell when it might work for you? [Read more...]
Resident Geek
17 June 2008
Sometimes the typical time and task software just doesn’t cut it. In the business world, large and small businesses alike use a breed of software called CRM (Customer Relationship Management), which makes it easier to reach out to your customers and manage sales. Not surprisingly, this involves tasks, appointments and the like.
There is a massive pool of CRM software to choose from. Some are well worth the time and money, but many do not even support GTD or TRO. When your main workflow is sales, this is a big deal. Since CRM is huge need for many of our customers, we started searching.
Kevin Crenshaw
7 June 2008
Probably the easiest place to get distracted (and waste time) is surfing the Internet. Hyperlinks lead everywhere, and there are so many interesting things to read and watch and do. This is a huge time drain for the typical person, and if you struggle with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) it can be almost insurmountable.
So how can you conquer these distractions? I have a couple suggestions to share in this and future posts. Here’s the first. (Read More…)
