How to get more done at work
As a speaker, trainer, and educator in Microsoft Office programs my clients regularly ask how to get more done at work. Whilst I can’t magically produce extra hours in a day, this simple tip, depending on how many meetings you have each week, could easily save you an hour or more! Change the length of your meetings. Sounds simple and it can be…here’s why. Meetings have generally been set at a default 60 minutes long.Parkinson’s Law states that the amount of work expands to fill the available time. So, if a face-to-face meeting is scheduled for 60 minutes, generally it …
5 Simple Ways to Make 2022 Your Most Productive Year Ever!
Traditionally, the start of a new year is a time for change…especially given the last few years! Everyone in business is always looking for ways to get more done in less time with less stress and frustration. As a speaker, trainer and educator with Microsoft Office programs for over twenty years, here are 5 simple ways to leverage programs we all use in business to set yourself up to make 2022 your most productive year ever! NOTE: To see how to do each item, take a look at my how to video below each tip! Tip 1 — Change your Email program …
5 reasons why people aren’t responding to your emails and what to do about it
As a Microsoft Office productivity speaker, trainer and course creator, I’ve worked with businesses in all industries, and I’m often asked, “Why don’t people respond to my emails?” Although there are many reasons, here are five of the most common reasons I have found as to why people may NOT respond to your emails and, more importantly, what to do about it! If you want to get more productive with Microsoft Outlook or any of the Microsoft 365 Core 4 (Excel, Word, Outlook or PowerPoint), subscribe to my regular eNewsletter and also a receive a copy of my 39 Microsoft …
How to Freeze Column or Row Headings in a Microsoft Excel Worksheet
How to freeze column or row headings in a Microsoft Excel worksheet. When preparing to work with a firm of accountants I conducted our standard pre-session survey which enables us to customize programs to focus on the ideas and strategies that will enable those attending to fast track their productivity. One of the questions I asked was “What is the 1 thing that if you knew it, understood it or felt it would make attending this session valuable to you?” The response surprised me. The attendee simply wanted to know to freeze column or row headings in a Microsoft Excel …
How to Change the Same Cell on Multiple Microsoft Excel Worksheets
How to change the same cell on multiple Microsoft Excel worksheet. Many of the executives and teams I work with have spreadsheets where data is the same across multiple worksheets. At times there are changes that need to be made on every single worksheet. If there is only one or two, that’s easy, but if you have 10, 12 or more it can be time consuming. The next tip enables you to make global changes in your worksheet to the same cell in every worksheet selected. This has proved extremely useful for clients who want to duplicate a file for …
Making Bigger Promises to Scarier People in Business – Jennifer Einolf
It’s easy to roll along in life and get by. Being productive and living a life that has meaning for you often means stepping outside our comfort zone and challenging ourselves to become the person we want to be. Often gaining the clarity to see what’s next can be hard when you are “sitting” in your life. In this episode I chat with Clarity Coach, Jennifer Einolf. Jennifer is a Newfield Network trained Ontological coach (listen in to find out EXACTLY what that is) who loves working with clients through her Prospects of Possibility transformation keys to help clients realise …
How to Easily Create a Graph or Chart in Microsoft Excel
How to easily create a graph or chart in Microsoft Excel. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Graphs can be particularly challenging, but with a few little tips, a visual representation of your Excel data can totally change how your reader understands and analyzes the information you are presenting. When I work with executives and their teams, this simple tip can save them hours of stress and frustration, particularly when they need to create a graph minutes before going into a client pitch or board meeting. Whilst this tip will cover creating a simple graph, for one …
How to Send an Individual Microsoft Excel Worksheet
How to send an individual Microsoft Excel worksheet. Whilst working with an executive, he told me that when he needed to send one of his team an individual worksheet of their monthly sales, he saved the existing file with a new name, deleted all the tabs he didn’t want them to see, saved it, then sent it. When I showed him how to send an individual Microsoft Excel worksheet, without having to save it, it was a D’oh moment! Sometimes we get so caught up in what we are doing that we make things harder than they need to be …
How to Copy Worksheets in Microsoft Excel
How to copy worksheets in Microsoft Excel. Firstly, let’s provide some context around how you might use this in a real life environment. For example, you have the same data on multiple worksheets that represents a week or a month. When I mention copying and pasting I metaphorically see those perceiving themselves as “more advanced” with Excel rolling their eyes expecting a lecture reminiscent of a school teacher telling students to click here, then there, but never actually understanding what or why they are doing something. Reality is, sometimes with Excel we expect things to be complicated not simple. I’ve …
Trust in Turmolic Times – David Penglase
Trust in relationships is vital. Not having trust makes relationships, of any type, at best challenging, at worst impossible! With the change our world experienced in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 the need for trust in business and life relationships has skyrocketed. When our relationships lack trust, our productivity reduces in all areas of life as we evaluate what is happening around us and take time to consider the impact of choices and decisions. In this episode I chat with Behavioural Scientist, speaker, educator and author David Penglase about how we build trust in these turmolic times. Transcription Donna …
