New Year’s Resolutions

It’s hard to believe, but it’s 2009. Per New Year’s tradition, many  of us have made personal resolutions. It is also a good time to make resolutions in our professional lives.

Here are a few ideas to help you get started.

E-mail

• Clean out in your inbox and set up folders
• Action Folder – instead of leaving all your “to do” e-mails in your inbox, put them in an action folder
• Reading Folder – put your newsletters and non urgent e-mails in a separate folder; set up a filter to automatically place newsletters in the reading folder
• Change your send receive e-mail schedule so you have less interruptions

Meetings

• Decide if you need to attend
• Try to attend meetings only if there is an agenda (This is one of my professional resolutions – I will have an agenda for any meeting I set up)

Increase Your Professional Knowledge

• At Bing Design, we have subscriptions to Lynda.com and MarketingProfs.com. Take advantage of the opportunities offered by your company.

This is a short list, but a good place to start.

What are your professional resolutions for 2009?