Start the new year off right
The beginning of a new year is a perfect time to hit refresh on your professional plans and goals that might be feeling stale. Here are some tips to help you hit the ground running this year.
It’s almost a week into 2016 and, hopefully, after some downtime over the holidays, you’re feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the new year. In case you need some inspiration to get started, here are a few apps, research findings, and tips to make the most of 2016:
Get organized. Inundated with email? Who isn’t?
Technology expert and Your Nerdy Best Friend, Beth Ziesenis, recently recommended [ASAE member log-in required] several apps designed to help association professionals meet their New Year’s resolutions, including cutting down on email clutter.
First, there’s Slack, a messaging app that allows users to send a quick message or question to coworkers, rather than clogging their inbox with yet another email. Alternatively, Microsoft offers a relatively new app within Outlook 2016—Groups—that allows officemates to share notes, conversations, files, and to schedule meetings without having to send an email.
And, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the email lists you subscribe to, there’s always Unroll.me—an app that allows you to easily unsubscribe or round those emails up into one digest.
Another fan of the app, Scott Oser, president of Scott Oser Associates, told Associations Now that, for him, the app helps calm unease over high inbox numbers. “Even though my digest is pretty big, I have found that it is much less stressful to have twenty-some emails in my inbox each morning as opposed to 80 or 90.”