May, 2011

Jason Womack

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Is your mind already made up? For the "worst"?

Jason Womack

I'm planning a life-long, dream trip to visit Normandy, France. I will arrive in Paris on 4 June, and make my way toward the coast. Since teaching high school history (starting in 1995) I have wanted to be in this area of the world on an anniversary of D-Day, June 6th. And now, I'm going to take this trip. Thanks for the photo. . Over the past month, I've been scheduling tours, renting cars, and finding places to sleep.

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3 ways to use “Building Your Personal Excellence”

Jason Womack

Jason's 70-minute CD, "Building Your Personal Excellence," gives you 11 more valuable workplace performance and personal excellence perspectives. Here are three ways to use this CD and more than your money’s worth right away: 1. Listen to it. Each track is less than 9 minutes long (we did that on purpose). For example, “Debrief your projects, events and the week” is just over 5 minutes and gives you solid advice on how to learn from this week, and go into next week prepared and ready to succeed.

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3 habits to a more productive year

Jason Womack

Do you start each day with a plan for action? Most people do. Whether they make a to do list or leave emails in their inbox to work on throughout the day, they have some way to manage their tasks and projects. Each day, however, we manage more than just time. We manage conversations, meetings and interruptions. Have you ever noticed your productivity actually goes up the fewer times you’re interrupted during the day?

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Send better email

Jason Womack

Send better email. Could watching a 2-minute video save you 20 or 30 minutes a week? I am sure this one idea will save you that much time or more! To see the rest of this clip (about 5 minutes long) as well as 14 OTHER time management tips, order your copy of the DVD today!

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When you’re at work…

Jason Womack

…work! Years ago, a mentor of mine gave me this advice over a lunch discussion. I remember we were talking about time management (I brought this problem to him because I saw it as my major issue in not producing what I had been intending to work on…). At one point, Tim put his knife and fork down, took a slow sip of iced tea, and then looked at me and said, “Jason, when you’re at work, work.”.

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3 Tips for clear delegation

Jason Womack

We go to work, we sit down at our desk, we move a piece of paper or two around, make a phone call, send an email, and (probably) go to a few meetings. That is a day's work. From time to time; however, we come up with something that MUST be done, that we can or should NOT do ourselves. We’re either “too busy” or we don’t have the skill set to take the action that is necessary.

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Done with a project? Remember these keys to success

Jason Womack

After a big project, event or roll-out,? be sure to discuss: Timeline : Did we adhere to start dates, milestones, deadlines, and deliverables? Where and when were we ahead of schedule? Behind schedule? Roster : Who had responsibility for which roles? What was outsourced? How did each person do? What did we learn from our involvement in the project? Checklists : What supplies & materials did we use?

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