by Zena Everett | Aug 9, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
The choice of how and when to return to the office after lockdown will be giving some people sleepless nights right now. Home working has been a welcome respite from anxiety. It’s not the commute, the virus or their colleagues...
by Zena Everett | Jul 7, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
The way we use emails is chocking our productivity. Email has become an invasive intrusion, binding us to our screens: the japanese knotweed of work. Researchers say we spend about 28 percent of our time actively managing email, that’s over a quarter of...
by Zena Everett | Jun 9, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
How to Influence on ZoomBusiness partners, leaders, trusted advisors, sales people, collaborators, experts – every one of us needs influencing skills. We want people to buy into our ideas, take our advice, follow our lead, call us first and...
by Zena Everett | May 6, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
Now that we are in the groove of remote working, our challenge is to maintain motivation, focus and connection. What’s working? Here’s a list of home truths from people I’ve canvassed: take a breather to skim through it and share it with your managers:Zoom Zombies...
by Zena Everett | Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
How are you doing in lockdown? Do you have more time on your hands and if so, are you getting more done?I expect not. Remember Parkinson’s law? Work expands to fill the time available If you are juggling full-time employment with entertaining, caring...
by Zena Everett | Mar 18, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
For years I’ve asked Crazy Busy delegates what they would do if they had an extra hour a day. Predictably their answers always include sleep, read fiction, read around their own subject, cook a decent meal from scratch, exercise, spend uninterrupted time with their...
