Taking care of busy-ness
2006 has already shown itself to be a very full year. In fact I've been struggling to keep up with my email traffic let alone all the other things happening around the place.
How's this for the current major projects on the go:
* office relocation mid-year to bigger and better premises (yet to find this place though)
* new staff - currently looking for a new consultant and sales person to help handle our continued growth
* baby blues - well not really "blues" but my amazing assistant Rebecca is going on maternity leave mid-year for her first baby so we've got to prepare for handling some time off for her plus someone to fill in
* home renovations - we're going to make the house bigger as our kids (http://www.sbsusers.net/atw/photo.htm for some older photos) just keep growing
* there's a few other things that I can't list here but rest assured it's not minor surgery
All this means I need to continually look for ways to improve the way I work, and my team, keeping my eyes & ears open for great ways to use time efficiently and effectively plus handle the information flowing through the place.
We're going to start using MS CRM 3.0 shortly which I anticipate helping with this significantly but that can't be the "be all & end all" of the solution. I'd love to hear about any great time saving/efficiency tools & practices you've come across and have found to be effective. By sharing these ideas around we can all learn to deal with the information superhighway that just keeps pushing its way through our lives - and enjoy some of the quieter sideroads at the same time.