New Teleseminars
Today we launch our new series of teleseminars on many different topics.(You just need a phone, no special equipment to join the teleseminar.) We’re giving discounts to you if you buy places on 4 or more, and if you book places for more than one person in your organisation.
As always you get a full set of notes, a transcript and a recording of the teleseminar (as soon as they are available).
The topics include
- Bullying
- Objectives and Appraisals
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Time Management
- Creating Tenders
- How to Deal With a Difficult Manager
- How to Create Effective Powerpoint Presentations
- How to Improve Your Memory
See them here:
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Remember, just like any other product, these teleseminars are covered by our full money back guarantee: If you are not happy with the material, the teleseminar or any aspect, we will give you a full refund.
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The Easy Things
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Just before Christmas I went to see my old friend Lindsey. It’s always a great conversation and I come away with lots of useful ideas and tips. This time was no exception.
Lindsey said she had decided that it was time to go through the house with a paper and pencil drawing up a list of the really simple, easy and cheap things she could do to improve it.
The Impact
As a result of this list and her actions she has saved between 25 and 35% of her heating bill.
The List
The simple things included:
- Updating the draft exclusion,
- Double-glazing one last window (a beautiful stained glass round window in the hall)
- Adding more lagging to the hot water tank
- Buying a water-reducing head for the shower
I was inspired and went directly to Wicks (a hardware store) to get an extra jacket for our hot water tank.
We have a solar panel on our roof and, as a result, a control panel that gives us the temperature of the hot water tank at any time of the day or night. I noticed an immediate improvement in the water temperature. It was up by between 4 and 5 degrees, and, not altogether surprisingly, kept up its temperature overnight much better.
As we have a very large tank, we had only been able to cover the top of it with the jacket I had bought, so we got a second one for the lower half and now it’s even better. I wish we’d done it years ago.
I checked a couple of web sites and they estimate the annual savings could be around £35 with an additional £10 for lagging the pipes. The jacket I bought was under £10.
My husband decided to sort out the drafts in the kitchen and I also invested in a radiator fan that sits on top of the radiator and makes sure the hot air comes into the room, rather than heating the wall.
Then we finally finished putting reflectors behind the radiators. This was a job we had started about 15 years ago when we had the heating installed. We had done all the radiators on the outside walls, but not the others.
All very easy stuff and really cheap.
Some Simple Things
So I started wondering what I could do at work along the same lines. Not surprisingly there were quite a few silly things I had just not got round to.
The Drawer
I have a handy drawer in my desk full of address labels, stamps and other postage things. I’ve it this way ever since I got the desk, when I was self-employed. But since then I have started the company and I now hardly ever send out any mail myself.
But there are lots of other things that I do do. So I took out all the postage stuff and put it somewhere else. I replaced it with equipment I use every day, including a stick of lip salve and some emergency chocolate. It sounds so simple, but what a difference it has made. (It has reduced the amount of exercise I get though.)
The Books
Spurred on, I went for the bookshelves. In my work I collect masses of books. Often things are recommended or it may be I am researching a new topic. But whatever it is I end up with lots of them.
The quality varies from the ones I would recommend to virtually anyone to the ones I would consider I’d get more value from if I lit the fire with them.
So I pulled down all in the latter category and put them in a pile ready for the charity shop, in the hope that someone else will find them useful. Suddenly there was a lot more space so I was able to tidy up a few other areas.
My Suggestion
Instead of making life really hard, what are the really easy things you could do to make it a bit better? Do let me know so we can all benefit.
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