The Business Pro

Do you bring your work home with you at night? Do you maybe save it for tomorrow? How do you remember what to do? Are you a list maker? Memory like an elephant? My answer is yes to all of the above. In the good old days, I could remember everything. No need to write…

Last week, we did Contact management 101. I hope you see the value in having all your contacts in one place. This week, we can chat about work contacts and Categories, and how to use them. Next week, we can chat about all things with personal contacts – how to store them, how to move…

Ok. The Disney kick is over. I hope you enjoyed those. Disney fascinates me. If you use Outlook for email and contacts, here is a good one for you. Do you have a system for storing contacts in Outlook? Most people don’t. Several problems arise with how we save a contact. Most of these won’t…

Putting on the ears. I know this is Disney themed, but is this a little too far? You want me to wear my daughters Mickey Ears to work. Ha. Not really. Your own eyes and ears are the perfect gauge to how you, as an organization are doing. Mickey Ears illustrate the point. We don’t…

Do you walk the talk? A few weeks ago, I said there were 50,000 janitors at Disney world. Truth is, there might be 500, but keeping the parks clean is EVERYONE’s responsibility. If you think about your own facility, and you walk past a piece of trash on the ground in the parking lot, how…

What is your scale? Not how much you weigh? The size and scope of what you do. Here’s a tid bit about me. I went to school for Architecture (program was taking too long so I just got my business degree and moved on). Buildings fascinate me. I love how you can make old fit…

“What time is the 3:00 Parade?” “How big is the 12″ Pizza?” We’ve gotten our share of dumb questions. You know what they say… No question is a dumb one. There are some head scratchers, though. Both my kids worked at Disney for a college internship. I felt as though learning how Disney does Disney…

50 times? As I sat down to write this, I thought how many times have I been to Disney? Not 50 days, 50 visits. At least. Why so many times? You’ve been there once, you’ve been there, seen it, done it, move on. I say not so fast… There is something different there every time I go.…

The Cloud. Kinda generic. We’ve all heard it, and we’ve probably all used it. I’m old fashioned. I thought the cloud was a back up tool – keep your stuff on your device and and sync to back everything up in case of a boo boo. The cloud is much more than that today. Let’s…

Interesting takes on the 130-word run on sentence I mentioned last week. If there is a takeaway, it’s this… I mentioned you are a reflection of how you communicate. I know we are ALL busy. WAAAAY too busy, but take the extra 10 seconds to proofread your message before you hit send. 10 seconds. If…