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Doing Your Things Without Losing Your Mind

07/11/2013 /

Today, having a mile-long daily to-do list is not so difficult and rare!

Everyone is busy, and sometimes it seems so hard to get things done efficiently and effectively, not only at work but also in private life.

However, the busier you are, the most important is to manage your life and time to be more productive and not to waste your precious time. Actually, what is really important is to know how to start and how to create the space to give your best.

And following the 10 tips below by Lifehack, you could be able to do your things better!

1. Write It Down.
2. Get a Head Start.
3. Do Your Most Dreadead Task First.
4. Turn Off Distractions.
5. Take Breaks.
6. Batch Process.
7. Eat Breakfast.
8. Get Some Exercise.
9. Delegate.
10. Say No.

Read more on: http://bit.ly/XF96j5

PROCRASTINATION

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10/10/2013 /

Still waiting for an answer?? Bryan A. Garner shows how to write a perfect e-mail and earn your collegues attention.

  • Stick to standard capitalization and punctuation;
  • Get straight to the point (politely, of course);
  • Be brief — but not too brief;
  • Plot out what happened, and when;
  • Add a short but descriptive subject line;
  • Copy people judiciously.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/write_e-mails_that_people_wont.html

image source: http://jacquelinewhitmore.com/15-essential-e-mail-etiquette-tips/

eTools for Language Training

24/09/2013 /

Web 2.0 technologies are changing the ways we can do personal learning: Information and content aggregators may come in handy for training activities.

The English Learning Corner set by the Istituto Diplomatico (using Netvibes) is  an excellent example of these possibilities. The service gathers and organizes links to relevant sites and RSS feeds devoted to English language learning.  It shows how an aggregation service can provide a personal learning environment.

More about the English Learning Corner.

Image source - Travelhack.org

Image source – Travelhack.org

Time waste

22/08/2013 /

If you love life, don’t waste your time because that’s what life is made of.
[original text: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of”]
Benjamin Franklin

Image by U.S. Government (Wikimedia Commons [1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By U.S. Government (Wikimedia Commons [1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Five Presentation Mistakes Everyone Makes

20/08/2013 /

Nancy Duarte has published several books on presentations. The last one is the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations. Here are some of her tips on creating and delivering presentations.

We all know what it’s like to sit through a bad presentation. We can easily spot the flaws — too long, too boring, indecipherable, what have you — when we watch others speak. The thing is, when we take the stage ourselves, many of us fall into the same traps.

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Illustration by Andrew Joyner on Businessweek.com

Here are five of the most common, along with some tips on how to avoid them.

  1. Failing to engage emotionally : Try opening with a story your audience can relate to, for example, or including analogies that make your data more meaningful.
  2. Asking too much of your slides: Create handouts from all that text you’ve pulled off your slides and moved into “notes.”
  3. Trotting out tired visuals:  Brainstorm lots of visual concepts — and throw away the first ones that came to mind.
  4. Speaking in jargon:  If they can’t follow your ideas, they won’t adopt them.
  5. Going over your allotted time:  There’s nothing worse than a presentation that seems like it will never end.

Read more at http://goo.gl/jE9dq

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