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All Articles By Katy Whitton

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Katy is always trying to be more productive one day at a time! Whether it's analogue, digital, motivational or psychological who'll try any system that will help her get things done and get organised.
As well as running FlippingHeck.com, she also loves making music and reviewing things.
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Psychology & Communication

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7 Habits: Habit 4 – Think Win/Win

August 7, 2008 By Katy Whitton

Habit 4 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is all about achieving a mutually acceptable compromise with the person you're dealing with so you both feel that you have achieved your ideal outcome.…more »

Productivity News

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What have you done to Gmail, Google??

August 7, 2008 By Katy Whitton

I've written before that I'm having issues with using Gmail over IMAP with Entourage and judging from the comments I'm not the only one (can't link to the commenter as they didn't leave a URL!) and now I'm having issues with the regular GMail web interface as well.…more »

Business

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How To Make Your Boss Love You

August 6, 2008 By Katy Whitton

There's an interesting post over at US News, written by Alison Green, called "10 ways to make your boss love you" and whilst it is written in a "Corporate Speak" style (Green is a manager herself so I guess you can't blame her!), there are a few interesting points that the article highlights.…more »

Psychology & Communication

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7 Habits: The Public Victory Phase

August 6, 2008 By Katy Whitton

In the 7 Habits, the Public Victory Phase is were we take a look back at the first few habits that asked us to examine ourselves and then think about how we can use those habits to start interacting with others.…more »

Motivation

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The Ten Worst Excuses for being late to work

August 6, 2008 By Katy Whitton

An article at CNN.com discusses the "10 best excuses for coming to work late": More than 27 percent of hiring managers say they are skeptical of employees' excuses for showing up late. It turns out their doubt is warranted: 24 percent of all employees decide to make up a fake excuse rather than tell the truth.…more »

Websites & Blogging

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Be careful how you use email at work

August 6, 2008 By Katy Whitton

Companies' principal worries about email use are that employees could be breaking financial disclosure or corporate governance rules, could be leaking intellectual property or trade secrets, could be leaking sensitive memos or could be breaching privacy regulations.…more »

Business

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Money isn’t the key to worker happiness

August 6, 2008 By Katy Whitton

Companies need to understand that rewards and recognition do not necessarily mean cash (which in this troubled financial time they can little afford) it could be something simple as a free lunch for the team that worked on the project, time off in lieu or a fancy certificate - whatever best fits the staff and the organisation.…more »