by Melanie Wymer | Feb 11, 2019 | Productivity, Tech
In his latest book “Minimalism – living better with less technology” Cal Newport believes Social Media and our increasingly digital lives are wreaking havoc with our autonomy, our ability to concentrate on work or even have a meaningful existence. So what is the...
by Melanie Wymer | Feb 5, 2019 | Productivity, Tech
Life is hectic; we are part of family groups with complicated work, home and school schedules. Should we manage all this digitally, or by using traditional diaries, or is there a happy medium? Being a technology geek, I have always been keen to use the latest apps...
by Melanie Wymer | Feb 4, 2019 | Productivity, Tech
You want to be responsive to customer enquiries, but sometimes, typing the same paragraphs of text again and again to answer predictable questions gets a little bit tedious, not to mention time consuming. So how can you avoid this and yet answer your customer’s...
by Melanie Wymer | Jan 24, 2019 | Productivity
Have we been looking in the wrong direction for the past few years? “To do” apps, Pomodoro technique, management training courses and time management courses in the office… Should employers instead be offering snooze pods and bonuses for proof of 7.5 hours sleep? The...
by Melanie Wymer | Jan 24, 2019 | Productivity, Tech
Google, having been around since the 1990s, has now officially become a verb according to the English Oxford dictionary. I was corrected by one of my teenage children that actually, “to google” is “passé” – they now “search it up”. However, whilst the verb might...
by Melanie Wymer | Jan 23, 2019 | Productivity
New Year is an arbitrary marker for reviewing resolutions and goals for the next 12 months for business and personal life. But what if we switched this to a different time period – breaking up the year into quarters instead? Might that be just a little bit more...
