Here at Idealog, we’re all about that sweet, sweet productivity. After all, if you’re reading this, you’re probably a can-do type, so you already know that you’ll never reach your goals/change the world/destroy the earth from space without efficient and effective use of your time. But how are you actually doing in that regard? Sure, […]

Microsoft Outlook is a lot smarter than you think. Here is a good example. If your client or supplier wants to book an appointment on the first Tuesday next month, what is the quickest way to find the date? 1.Open up a new appointment on your calendar. 2.Select the start date and type in, “First […]

Understanding why the high failure rate of Client Relationship Management (CRM) or Enterprise Wide Technology (ERP) deployments. People don’t plan to fail however they do fail to plan in a meaningful way. When we start the planning process we naturally only work with what we know and work towards what we know that we don’t […]

Why is team work so important to our survival and prosperity? No one person is perfect, as we are mixture of strengths which enable us to succeed and weaknesses which can set us up for failure. To protect ourselves from the risk of failure we need to work with other people in a teaming environment. […]

Have a look at your hand and how your thumb enables your hand to do clever things. Now take a minute to think about your intellectual capacity, your IQ is just like your thumb it enables you to do all those clever things you do naturally. So where did your IQ come from? Was it […]

When we are busy or tired our ability to manage our grammar and spelling may be impaired. Outlook 2013 comes to the rescue when the email is read back to you audibly (text to speech) so that your ears may pick up what your eyes do not. To get this functionality working you need to […]

When you arrive at your desk to start your working day, the first thing you need to do is check what is on your appointments, and what you need to achieve before the end of your day. Think of your calendar as a map of your day. A single view of all your appointments, separated […]

You might well ask, why use a competency approach? What’s wrong with the current way the company does things? A competency based approach is more appropriate because it is more rigorous and built around the concepts of superior performance and measurability. Competencies can be defined in a number of ways. One suitable definition is that […]

Start the meeting at the end, as in “When the attendees leave the meeting we will have achieved the following…” Always remember that meetings are held to make decisions and not to discover information about a topic. So identify any specific information required to achieve the result and have that distributed to all the attendees […]

People are the most important asset of any business. From the biggest global corporate to the smallest local firm, employees and the contribution they make are imperative to the success of any company. In order for a business to survive in increasingly competitive times, business leaders need to put processes in place to regularly audit […]