1. Leave everything and go to bed. The president and editorial director of the Portal Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington says that the trick she uses to be more efficient to “stop doing what you are doing and go to sleep a little.”

Nobody in their right mind is going to oppose you, to be more productive, must rest.

2. Be consistent. As much as we are tired or not feeling able to produce anything else, try to be consistent. It’s what bestselling author advises, Stephen King, which undertakes to write 10 pages a day, including weekends and holidays.

That is common among writers, but can be an excellent way to discipline an entrepreneur to get to work even in difficult times.

3. Go to the gym or running. For Richard Branson, Virgin Group chairman, that is a solution to be more productive. Branson says that exercise gives you a daily equivalent of four hours of productivity per day.

4. Play online. For Stephen Gillet, vice-president of Starbucks digital projects, online games let you interact with other players and their developing solutions for specific problems in your work.

5. Keep a manual performance. For the investor Shiram ram is always good to keep a journal about their performance. Itemize in that time you were more productive conditions or had a great success or failure is key for people who are concerned about their productivity. This way you always know how to behave.

6. Fire your assistant. That’s what I advised Larry Page, Google co-founder who realized that his assistant programs, both he and Sergey Brin, unproductive meetings to which they did not wish to attend. Now people just ask them whether they wish to attend other meetings planned.

7. Use the hours of Sunday to catch up with emails, because in this way on Monday as a good start, and have a very productive week.

This is advised the manager of the business side of the Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Carol Smith, who spends four hours of Sunday to answer all mail that has accumulated.

Really interesting topic and you, What things made to be more productive?

Sadly, even many candidates think that seeking employment is to look at every day Info jobs (the most popular portal in Spain by the candidates and more used by companies). Of course they should continue using it but have to stay there. Need to supplement it with many other tools. For example, there is increasingly more job offers published in professional networks like LinkedIn and Xing. There are also specialized channels and on Twitter about any job.

Likewise, increasingly, personnel manager is looking for talent in the network as well would you to display what you know to do and know that poséis in the forums and portals where they are. In professional networks, for example, can initiate direct conversation with them on various topics because there is a “here and here I catch you I’ll kill you.” You must pave the way slowly.

For example, imagine that a social graduate looking for work and cannot think of anything new. I could watch the Official Gazette of their autonomous region and province to meet its aid or grants for new projects to be granted to enterprises in this sector professional and able to contact them and offer their services directly, interest in this project for if they could find staff. And now I ask myself is this what everyone does? I do not think that is a way of showing and will differentiate.

Another task that you can greatly facilitate the work is to use the RSS feeds of the job boards to receive personalized alerts to your email account offers of your interest on a regular basis depending on the parameters indicated for the type of position you seek.

Also, you may be aware rather than news having to do with your business sectors and projects in the area and to be informed of developments. Likewise, rather than going to choose us for your special events and related profiles to meet people from the “scene” and that you can know and why not, count on you in the future. No matter how good you are, if you appear to others, you are invisible to them.

Then there is the alternative offered to take imagination and imaginative way companies, making them see a need. For example, consider a career in marketing or human resources who knows about this issue and, in addition to sending resumes to companies in the sector, what other choice does he have? For more than one. To mention one, you can prepare a plan of action to present to various media, the new sections on topics that dominate, explaining goals, objectives, approach, focus, etc. It may be that many will not answer you, however, one day might receive an affirmative answer or that you contact one of these means for a meeting and you can give them more information.

Of course, even with new and different things to reach out to employers, you must be realistic, no one pretends that it is easy or that the first may obtain positive results. What it does is clear is that if no results are obtained when using traditional tools, perhaps it was time to approach things differently. In seeking employment, as in all aspects of life, there is not only Jack, the Horse and the King, but there are many other characters poll.

For quite some time been discussing what should be the best profile Community Manager. In fact, if you take part in the group of the Spanish Association of Online Communities (AERC) Linkedin (which I recommend), you will find an open discussion about the need for the Community Manager have been training in journalism.

I had raised the need for this figure must have a specific university training. It is clear that there is no legal requirement for that to happen, but yes it is true that it is recommended that, given the role it plays-have certain skills when carrying out its function.

I do not come now to speak of the virtues that should have a good Community Manager, but how you begin to see this figure from an institutional standpoint. In particular, since the legislative institutions of the European Union.

He called me a lot of attention the recent publication of a document prepared by the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection of the European Parliament, entitled “Draft Ponds effects of advertising on consumer behavior,” which among other things is revealed to the European Commission a series of problems generated by the development of Internet and new technologies.

Among these concerns, and we have already addressed in old posts, there is the concern of developing an undercover internet advertising, usually through the dissemination of comments on social networks, forums and blogs, hardly distinguished by its simple view content the issuing user.

Indeed, the Internet gives voice to anyone, which opens the possibility of carrying out bad practices, such as the secretly sponsored posts, or comments clearly promotional or advertising done by companies that act like individual users .

Well, in the Draft Report that indicated (and whose vote is scheduled for October 27, 2010), it is suggested that Member States “to promote the establishment in the forums as observers or facilitators trained on the risks involves surreptitious advertising. ” That is, the proposal aims at encouraging them to join in the internet forums, observers and moderators sensitized to the risks of surreptitious advertising, they can react quickly if a comment seems suspicious.

Obviously, this is no easy task. Move to that party’s responsibility to find a balance between protecting the online consumer and freedom of expression is extremely complex in practice.

In any case, if the proposal contained in the draft report is successful, it will be time to consider whether the figure of the moderator to which it refers, may be in the Community Manager. If so, AERCO must play an important role to support and train professionals who perform the duties of moderation, which we have been referring.

I personally have had the opportunity to see live work that association and I have no doubt that amply fulfilled in that role.

Now it is awaiting the outcome of the vote and sees what the position adopted from the European Commission in this regard. You can be the first step towards official recognition of the post of Community Manager.

Depending on the situation, a leader in sales can be time manager, planner boards, test coordinator, talent scout, coach and psychiatrist. All these papers together and played well make it what it is: a great leader.

However, there are five key aspects that distinguish the best sellers and great leaders, get to know them and see if you, or your staff, is a leader in this important area of business.

1. They are passionate and enthusiastic. These characteristics are transmitted to the entire sales team. If the leader is not, all lost their minds. How do leaders maintain realistic and positive attitude? To begin with, are voracious readers, reading everything written about his organization and sector. Looking for experienced and wise counselors to help them achieve their goals, and encourage sales representatives under his command to do the same. People surround themselves with high quality.

2. Recruit big sellers. Many managers do not hire someone until there is a vacancy, which means that sometimes up to “fill the gap.” One way to avoid this is by distributing business cards of two views to those of other companies that show great skill in sales and service excellence. One side of the standard information card includes name, address and phone, the other says, “I was impressed with their service and professionalism. Call me if you want to develop into a career. ” The success of a sales leader is directly proportional to the success of the team, hence the importance of recruiting the best of the best.

3. Achieve sales by their dealers, not for their sellers. The main problem that may face a sales team manager is to have a seal, which prevents sellers learn the skills necessary to achieve the maximum level of self-sufficiency. All managers instinctively want to get their hands and save the sale, but that is to say that they do not trust. Then, when sales reps have to fend for themselves, lack the necessary experience to handle difficult situations alone. Closes the sale by a representative and make the sale, teach him to close it and you will greatly boosted his career.

4. Set the example. Great sales leaders are working shoulder to shoulder with the people most of the time. If you do not see the performance of your representative at the time of the action, you cannot expect better. This way of acting not only shows you the performance of representatives, he discovers firsthand what customers think and need your products or services. Most importantly, however, is that vendors comply with a leader who knows what it’s like in the trenches. Surprise them occasionally with “I’d accept your invitation today to see how I will.” How your day planned sales representative?. How did it go on sales calls?. What methods used to obtain prospects?

5. They understand the strengths and weaknesses of each vendor. They have the ability to ask questions not indicative (like “What do you think you could have done differently on that sales call?” Or “What was your goal?”). When the sales rep says, it is true, when the manager says it, doubt it. Great leaders know what motivates each agent and how to get the best of them. Expect excellence. If your representatives know that you consider able to reach higher, fight for it.

Your role as a leader is to help your team succeed.

The monetary reward for being an unsurpassed sales leader can be great, but greater the reward of knowing that you help others achieve their goal.

Edward de Bono says that progress must escape the concept established in order to find a new one. This must happen repeatedly. Logically, he concludes, this is the reason why progress is so slow.

Seldom so few words have so much content. No need to give as many laps to things. Today I also reread repeatedly this phrase and found the following reflections:

* If what I am doing will not let me progress, to get where I want, I have to stop and get to start anew. This has earned me yesterday to take two important professional and personal decisions.

* If your company does not run for the desired location, consider what is preventing further development and change of concept. Tour management, Perhaps the problem is you. Be honest.

* It is no use complaining or worrying about things that are difficult or direct solution have been completed for the other party. It is best to start a new phase. Only then starts the progress of your new life. Difficult, uncertain, but new. This applies to businesses and individuals.

* If your department is little participation, difficulties, bad scene, make a line and starts from a new perspective. The working model change, a complete change leads to a new direction, sometimes unknown, but what is clear is that now does not work.

* If you are tired of sales are down, stop complaining and completely change your strategy and actions to develop. Only then, you can at least find a blue ocean, a new profitable niche.

* Want to get better results without a proper motivation and even surprise you. Establishes a new way of working, where the person is the center and the company just a physical space or not, in which the protagonist is the person.

* Stop doing what others do. Change the concept. If you follow others, you have to compete therefore making little progress. If you do your own philosophy, you will be different. Just do not appeal to everyone, but those that do, will be very faithful.

* If you want to reinvent the company, starts at the beginning. Give it a turning point. In spaces, relationships, philosophy, the results in the distribution of benefits, responsibilities, in human hierarchies, processes and understand the way you work.

These, among others, are the ingredients. It only remains to innovate the final recipe. Think briefly in the things that are not well made, they do not work or who are detained without progress in the market. In addition, seal leave them aside. Begins a new stage and progress will come.

This concept is demonstrated effective in the Business Time Model. The continued receipt of a delay or stagnation in real time the company makes these decisions are so complex to make, are made of a strong or consistent manner. For who wants to really, is “delayed time” over its competitors?