The Importance of Time No matter who you are, time is pretty important. However, depending on your situation, you may find yourself thinking about different aspects. For example, you might be concerned with due dates, or ‘when to do’ dates. Alternatively, perhaps time is important because you need to plan how much effort you will…
Read moreTeam Workload Management to Fill Orders
Filling Orders When it comes to filling orders, the goal is to complete them as efficiently as possible while correctly managing each customer’s expectations. However, this can be complicated. Every order goes through multiple phases and each phase requires a different team. There is a lot of opportunity for confusion that causes delay or inaccurate…
Read moreShould Priority Matrix Email Integration Matter to You?
Is the Email Integration Important? You are setting up your Priority Matrix. You might notice that Priority Matrix has an email integration and wonder whether this should matter to you. This Depends on You If so, great question! There are many aspects of Priority Matrix that may or may not be relevant to your particular…
Read more(Almost) 101 Ways to Use a Priority Matrix Item
When Starting Out When starting out in the system, it is typical that you may initially only think of and use a Priority Matrix item as a task. This is a great working definition as you become more comfortable in the system! But, after a while, continuing to use this definition can be a confining….
Read moreThe Logic Behind Priority Matrix’s Layout
Why Stop and Learn the Layout? When customers who are still very new to the Priority Matrix, I liked to invite them to “stop and take a look at the geography of the system.” This is an unusual term to apply to software. However, I feel that it offers a helpful perspective. Farmers inspect land…
Read moreThe Alpha Project: The First Step in Priority Matrix
Where to Start? Priority Matrix gives you the power to create hundreds of different projects using different configurations. This ensures that your workflow will never outgrow the platform no matter how complicated it becomes. Still, because of this the first step can also be daunting. When starting out, you don’t need dozens of separate projects;…
Read more7 Tips for Creating Better Project Status Reports
For teams who balance many tasks, priorities, and projects, keeping each other and management updated about what’s going on is key to success. Project Status Reports are a way to present updates on a project to provide valuable insight regarding team productivity and overall progress. In this article, we will give you some tips…
Read moreThe Best Lessons From Ten Powerful Women
It seems like in this day and age, women do it all. So much so, that sometimes it feels like it would feel great to drop everything and take a nice, long rest. To inspire you, we’ve put together a list of 10 highly productive and powerful women in business and analyzed their qualities and…
Read moreHow to Prioritize Your Workload When Everything Seems Important
When you have a leadership position in a company, you face enormous pressure on a daily basis in terms of many different criteria: ensuring that your company is on the route to making a profit, maintaining a strong reputation, knowing how to prioritize, keeping an organization intact, and being the face of a business. Long…
Read moreEffective Email Management: Strategies for Organizing Emails [+ Infographic]
The Pervasiveness of Emails Managing emails effectively is a vital part of workplace communication in this day and age. The purpose of emails is to allow for quick communication and an easy-to-access record of your conversation. However, while email allows you to reach virtually anybody, whether the person you are reaching is in your office…
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