Articles, Hints & Tips

Over the years we have gathered together a wealth of material about how to process information. This is after all what we do!

Here are some interesting articles plus a few hints & tips from our own consultants, gleaned from working with the thousands of people who have been pepped. Please feel free to download and try them out. If you find them useful, suggest to your colleagues that they visit our site for themselves.

The focus of PEPworldwide is “Changing forever the way people work”.

To assist you to manage today’s rapidly changing working environment, we have assembled a series of articles on “Best Practice” to help you. They come from publications, our clients and our own PEP consultants. We encourage you to download any that “catch your eye” and also to suggest to your colleagues that they visit the site for themselves.

1. Too much information: (information overload)

• Missing Deadlines (182Kb) - September 2011
• Enough already: Information overload (67Kb) - James Adonis, Sydney Morning Herald, October 2010
• Hooked on Gadgets (658Kbs) - New York Times: June 2010
• We're drowning in email (12Kb)
  People everywhere are straining under the weight of junk mail they get at work and home, and before they can get a handle on that, they're also being buried by electrons organized into electronic-mad messages and groupware databases.
• Information Overload   ( 971Kb) - Management Today (Australia): July 2008

2. Stress in the Workplace

• Organisational Change and Restructuring (169Kb) - September 2011
• Work overload putting top talent at risk! (27Kb) - Denis Healy, October 2010

3. Managing your workload

• Become More Efficient and Effective (168Kb) - January 2012
• Process Improvement for Knowledge Workers (194Kb) - Ira Chaleff, October 2011
• Time is Precious (163Kb) - September 2011
• Eight ways to manage yourself (231Kb) - Kerry Gleeson; March 2010
• 14 Top Time Management Resolutions for 2010 (82Kb) - Bary Sherman; January 2010
• Working IT - Unlimited Magazine Feb 2009  (221Kb)
• Eight ways to improve your productivity (18Kb)
  A dilemma that many executives face is how to develop their staff when they barely have time to do your real work, let alone any extra?
• Cleaning up your computer  (17Kb)
  The first step towards managing computer files better is to actually make sure that paper systems are organised. 
• Handling the Reading Pile (18Kb)
  Once they have completed PEP most people are pretty good at handling their "must do" reading. However, their ongoing challenge is all the other reading (the "like to" reading) that slowly turns into that daunting pile on the bookshelf.

4. Productivity Study

• White Collar Productivity Index (WPI) Press Release  (80Kb) - Bary Sherman, PEP Productivity Solutions: August 2009 

5. Client Case Studies

• Welcome Home Nestle - Parnell Darling NZ - March 09  (310Kb)
  PEPworldwide NZ successfully assisted Nestle with their move from Newmarket to Parnell.

6. Managing Meetings

• Outlook Calendar Do's and Don'ts  (90Kb)
  Suggestions from Bruce White about simple Do's and Don'ts when dealing with Calendar and Meeting Appointments within Outlook.

7. Remote working / mobile worker

• PEPped iPad/Tablet Checklist (214Kb) - January 2012
• Working Effectively From Wherever you are - 2008 (908Kb)
  Getting more of the Right work Done in Less time. Bary Sherman and Lynn Sherman PEP Productivity Solutions USA

8. WORK LiFe BALANCE

• Personal Efficiency the Key to Work Life Balance ( 31Kb) - Tony D'Arcy, September 2011

9. Using support staff effectively

• Managing your Personal Assistant  ( 11Kb) - Ann-Maree Moodie: June 2008

10. Other

• Excuse me, I'm trying to work  (Kb) - Tim Dowling, The Guardian: August 2006
• Lominger Competencies Development Through PEP (259Kb) - PEP
• Effective Move (177Kb) - PEP