Productivity

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In the Know: Top 5 Productivity Tools to Streamline Your Education Business

Introduction: I don’t know about you, but running my education business feels like I’m running in front of a train, flinging out track in an effort to stop it from...
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The Importance of Prioritisation for Education Businesses

Did you ever play Bat the Rat at a school fair when you were small?  No? Just me?  There was a drainpipe, a rounders bat, a small, slippery toy, and...
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The habits which are guaranteed to improve productivity in your education business

If you’re looking for ways to improve your productivity in your education business then you’re in the right place – hooray! In this blog, I'll be sharing the top five...
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5 ways education businesses can be more organised

Starting and running an education business can be rewarding, but as it grows, it can become harder and harder to stay on top of things. One key aspect of a...
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How to streamline your tutoring business using automation

Read on to find out more about why automating your tuition businesses onboarding process is important, and which systems you can use to do this as a solo tutor. As...
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Which tasks to outsource to a Virtual Assistant

Every growing small business, including education businesses, gets to the point where they have too much 'stuff' to do, and not enough time. At that point, it's usually a good...
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How to use filters to manage your inbox and maximise your productivity

It’s been a bit of a filter week, and it suddenly occurred to me – back when I was writing a blog about Gmail templates (only *cough*nearly6monthsago*cough*) that I had...
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What sorts of systems should an educational business be running?

As educational businesses, we often start out as a one-man band, an everyman. Your org chart? Looks something like this: So, with so many hats to wear, and so many...
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Email labels are where it’s at and I’ll fight anyone who thinks otherwise!

Well – It’s been a while since I wrote (thanks a bunch COVID-19, multiple lockdowns, and home-schooling 🙄) but I haven’t stopped thinking. Of course, what that means is that...
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5 reasons why multitasking is harming you and your business

Following on from last week’s blog post about Pomodoro Technique, in which focus is all-important, it seemed like an interesting idea to take a look at multitasking, and asking the...