May 17, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Kivi Leroux Miller, author of Nonprofit Communications, shares 10 tips for working more productively. While they are geared to people who do communications work for nonprofit groups, most apply more broadly.
Examples:
- Do similar jobs at the same time. Ms. Miller, a communications consultant, says she sometimes spends a whole day writing nothing but blog posts that she can publish throughout the week.
- File good ideas away. Ms. Miller says she records ideas for client projects, marketing angles, and blog posts in a big notebook on her desk, a tiny notebook in her purse, and a pad of paper on the bedside table.
- Get organized, but don’t obsess about it. Ms. Miller says she could spend all day, every day, cleaning up files or re-prioritizing her to-do lists, but would get nothing of substance done. “I’ve realized that when I get into hyper-organization mode, I’m usually procrastinating on real work.”
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