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Illuminating Newsletter from
Management and personal skills development hints, tips and special offers focused on developing
better brains for better business®
+44 (0)1753 866633 www.illumine.co.uk info@illumine.co.uk
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Time Stretchers
Working longer hours may keep the boss smiling, but it takes a toll on your output, social life and in some cases your health. In this set of articles we look at some of the reasons you might be working longer hours and some easy tools and techniques you can learn to help you stretch time.
So what's taking up so much of your time?
First of all you need to take a look at your day and decide what it is that's taking up so much time. We asked our customers and they said it's "because people are completely overloaded". But that could mean many different things. These articles link to the three of the most common reasons you get overloaded at work:
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How Productive Are You When Working Long Hours?
Recent studies have suggested that people working longer hours are less productive. After eight hours of work you will naturally become tired and disengaged. Your work-life balance will start to suffer as your mind wanders. So much to do - so little time...
So, what can you do to still work your normal hours - but get even more done? You've got a few choices:
- Find a new job - which could be just as bad or worse!
- Stop working so hard - which means you probably won't have the job at the end of it!
- Look for some solutions to 'stretch' your time and maybe even save you a bit!
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The 'Illuminating' Brain Workout...
I drift in a current.
Down long man made highways.
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive.
Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was dark.
Colder, with flickering light, to mock.
But though I make life easier,
I might give you a nasty shock.
Answer at the bottom of this newsletter...
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Find the Time to Unload, Unwind and Be Less Stressed...
At work, stress is caused by a multitude of reasons and situations with different people showing different levels of resistance. In this article we look at just a few of the typical stress inducers and some tools and techniques you can use to overcome them, whilst improving well-being and work/life balance:
- Your diet.
- Exercise and your mind.
- Controlling workloads.
- Working environment.
- People management.
» Read the full article here...
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"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." Harvey MacKay
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"For every minute spent organising, an hour is earned." Anon
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Get more inspirational quotations at
www.illumine.co.uk/inspirational-quotes
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The 20 Minute Hour...
Manage your information overload by learning how to speed read. Here Clive Lewis introduces us to the first principles of a technology that all business professionals cannot be without!
You are on your way to a key client meeting or presentation. You picked up a huge file of papers just before you left home and you only have your journey time to read and absorb it all. What are your chances of success?
» Read the article here...
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Speed Read a Newspaper in 10 Minutes
It's just for fun, but will show you how useful speed reading actually is. There are just six steps to speed reading a newspaper in 10 minutes...
» Find out what the steps are...
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FREE GUIDE - Do more with less
This guide is intended to provide an insight for managers and staff at all levels to be able to continue to 'do more with less'. The tools and techniques discussed will help you to learn, maximise that learning and develop throughout your career and life.
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Central London courses and workshops coming up...
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19-20 July 2011: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
26-27 July 2011: Writing Dynamics™ - written communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/wdyn
28 July 2011: Creativity for Logical Thinkers - business creativity, www.illumine.co.uk/crlt
2-3 August 2011: Advanced Thinking & Learning - mind mapping, speed reading & memory, www.illumine.co.uk/atlw
16-17 August 2011: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
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'Illuminating' Brain Workout answer: Electricity
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The next newsletter: Improve Your Thinking and Learning
Learning and thinking is something that we do every day - it could be 'on the job' or through reading an article or research. In this newsletter we'll look at some simple tools and techniques you can use to fine tune and maximise your thinking and learning skills...
... Don't miss it!
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This newsletter is produced by the Illumine Marketing Team and edited by Richard Evans. The information presented in this newsletter remains the copyright of Illumine Training and its respective writers and authors. You can post these articles to your blog and website as long as it is not for commercial use. You must reference this back to Illumine Training and the Illumine website (www.illumine.co.uk). Images used have been leased and permission should be sought from the image owners.
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