Employee evaluations (or staff appraisals) should be an enlightening experience for both parties involved. These reviews should be in no way intimidating for either you or your employee. However, for a lot of people the process has become exactly that. The reasons for these discouraging occurrences can range from when the evaluation takes place to how the reviewer handles the evaluation process. Here’s a guide to help you create a positive employee evaluation procedure in your workplace.
Deciding When to Conduct Employee Reviews
The first thing required for a successful employee evaluation program is a solid review schedule. You need to know when the evaluations will take place and how you plan on notifying your employees of their upcoming performance reviews. It is important to decide how many times per year you want to do employee reviews. While some companies only hold one single evaluation per year, other companies will conduct more informal (or “mini”) reviews once or twice before that yearly review is conducted. This practice can be beneficial to all involved — it cuts down on the time that the formal review takes. Periodic “mini-reviews” also allow the employees time to improve on weaker areas of work before the dreaded formal evaluation takes place.
Employee “mini-reviews” can also give managers an opportunity to get to know their employees better. This is a way in which to show employees that they are valued and taken seriously. As such, you shouldn’t think of these reviews as simply a place in which to negotiate salaries.
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Things like working conditions, future opportunities and any problems that either party has should also be discussed at this time.
Setting Aside Time for Employee Evaluations
You should set aside a specific time when the review will be held in order to get the most out of the evaluation. This practice gives your employee adequate time to prepare themselves; the evaluation is not sprung on them suddenly and it allows them the time required to adequately prepare for it. You will find that proper preparation cannot happen if you send your employee an email on Monday informing him that this is the week of his or her performance evaluation. Instead, make sure that you have a quiet private place and at least an hour’s worth of time set aside to perform the evaluation.
Performing an Effective Employee Evaluation
The list of questions that are involved in an employee evaluation do not need to be so involved that the review seems impersonal and institutional. Also, you do not need to ask the employee ‘everything under sun.” You cannot expect to be able to cover everything in one hour.
In addition, keep in mind that if you spend too much time on one thing you could easily lead the evaluation in the wrong direction, spending more time to accomplish the entire process than you originally intended and planned for.
Some of the other things that you may want to keep in mind during the evaluation include:
- Your employee needs to have been given a job description beforehand. That way they know what the evaluation is based on.
- Your employee should have a blank copy of the evaluation prior to the review as well. Then they can fill in how they would rate themselves. (You may actually find that they will be harder on themselves than you.)
- There should be certain goals outlined for this evaluation. Things such as improving performance, rewarding good performance and establishing new expectations are common — and important — areas to cover.
- Make sure that you don’t do all of the talking. You’ll want to ask questions and give your employee time to share their feelings and tell you what their needs are.
- Employees should be permitted to write an alternate point of view in their file if there is something that you disagree about. While it may not be binding, it is an important step in moving forward in your relationship.
- Try to put your employee at ease. If they are overly anxious, they will be unable to hear what you are trying to tell them.
- Have any metrics or performance data on hand to back up what your evaluation states. This adds hard evidence to the evaluation process.
- Don’t just focus on those areas that need improvement. Your employee also needs to hear praise, so make sure to spend just as much time telling them what they have done well over the time period.
How to Write the Employee Evaluation
As a manager, you should be taking notes on all of the employees that you are responsible for evaluating on an ongoing basis. Fortunately, there are a lot of different software packages available for this purpose. Even if you only need a template to help you along, these software packages will work well for you.
Remember that your goal is to assess the way in which your employee is performing in relation to their job description and requirements. You will want to be really strict here in order to motivate your employee to perform even better.
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As mentioned, while you write the employee evaluation your employee should also be writing an honest self-appraisal. This is something that you will want to look over before finalizing your evaluation. It will give you some important information to consider before sharing your review with your employee.
The evaluation itself should also provide you with opportunities in which to coach the employee. Make sure that all of this is documented in order to ensure everybody’s understanding of what needs to be improved and areas in which the employee is excelling. You will want to document your employees’ reaction to the entire process.
A Final Word
First of all, you must make sure that employee reviews are done in a timely manner. This is important because whenever these reviews are constantly late, it can be very frustrating for the employee. So, if a review is due on a specific date, make sure that you get it done on that date and at the scheduled time. While your employees understand that you are busy, an untimely review simply suggests a lack of respect for them.
It is also important to remember that the evaluation is about your employee, not yourself. Also keep in mind that an honest evaluation only includes job performance-based issues and achievements, though you may have opinions regarding the employee’s home life and personal time. Don’t let the latter influence the former.
Finally, it is important to keep the evaluation relaxed and comfortable; nobody should feel intimidated or abused. Reviews should be beneficial to everyone, which is why they are so important. This is especially true if you concern yourself with building a good working relationship with your employees. The evaluation process is just another tool to improve the company’s employee development program — and a good manager knows how to use this tool effectively.
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We’re pleased to announce that WorkAwesome has been selected as the winner of the UK Design Award for March 2011. The UK Design Awards select their website of the month based on a number of factors, notably the design and execution of the site.
A few months ago, our website design was called “enchanting” by Guy Kawasaki (who knows something about enchantment; he’s recently written a book on the subject). We’re happy to see that he’s not the only one!
Here’s what the UDA had to say about WorkAwesome:
Work Awesome is an online resource for people who want to improve at work. Packed with useful articles on how to improve your work productivity, the site caters for a wide range of industries. As well as providing essential gems of information, the site is designed in an incredibly user friendly way, allowing users to navigate easily and find the right info for them. A more than worthy winner!
We’d like to thank the UDA for their consideration. A big thanks also goes out to the design team at Envato who helped put the design of the site together, to all of our contributors who augment the design with great content and to all of our readers — you’re who we’re doing it for!
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How to Completely Uninstall Programs on Mac with AppCleaner
It is important to “cleanly” uninstall applications whenever they are uninstalled, be it on a Windows or Mac machine. That’s because the files left over from the programs take up system space, could interfere with other programs and — consequently — hamper your productivity. This post on Guiding Tech talks about how to cleanly uninstall software on a Mac using nifty software called AppCleaner.
Your Money or Your Life
This post over at the Productivity 501 blog by Mark Shead talks about how he gave up a plush job and sacrificed higher paychecks for a life of satisfaction and happiness. I think a lot of us could take a lesson from this post, and probably change our lives for the good.
10 Tools for Training Your New Virtual Worker
It is said that delegating tasks to a virtual worker can significantly boost one’s productivity, especially if she deals with too many things in a single day. That’s a great concept — but training that worker isn’t always a pleasant exercise. This post on the Web Worker Daily blog offers 10 tools to help you train your virtual worker efficiently and effectively.
Slice and Dice Your Recipe Search Results
We’ve all got busy lives, and finding the time to cook healthy meals often falls by the wayside as a result. Google has made it that much easier to help you create healthy dishes with their announcement of a pretty cool recipe search engine. It lets you conduct accurate searches for any recipe you are looking for. Their official blog post has complete information on how you can make the best use of it. Happy eating!
30 Inherently Useful Tools for Freelancers
Finally, our sister site Freelance Switch has a huge list of useful tools for freelancers. And as you would have suspected, a lot of them are useful for just about anyone who spends time on the world wide web. Do check it out.
And if you’re looking for freelance work, FreelanceSwitch runs the only hand-moderated job board built exclusively around the unique way freelancers find work. While you’re at the site reviewing the tools mentioned above, give the job board a look.
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WorkAwesome editor Mike Vardy had the pleasure to interview Lifehacker founding editor and highly-regarded developer Gina Trapani on this week’s episode of the podcast. Gina’s got a ton of projects on the go on the web, all of which are awesome in scope and in nature. She’s regarded as one of the top productivity experts on the web today (one could go as for to say that her reach expands well beyond the Internet realm as well), and it was truly a privilege to have her on as a guest.
Show Notes
- Gina discusses the reason behind starting started Lifehacker and the reason for eventually leaving the site.
- Why Gina believes that productivity has had (and still does have) such an appeal to so many on the Internet.
- Todo.txt app, Gina’s self-developed task list application, is discussed.
- Gina gives a rundown of her daily workflow, including IRC, email and other tools she uses.
- What is ThinkUp? Gina spills the beans.
- Mike and Gina offer a requiem for the late, lamented Google Wave.
- The status of Gina’s standing desk experiment.
- Apparently, Gina occasionally dances while she works. So what’s on her playlist?
- Gina digs Gmail…she explains her reasons, what aspects of Gmail’s features she uses and some of the other apps she has to keep tabs on things.
There was a lot more that went down in this brief — yet informative and entertaining — discussion, including Gina’s drink of choice and sleep habits. Check out this episode by subscribing through your favorite podcast aggregator or by listening to it right here on the website.
Please note that there were some slight issues with Skype on occasion during the interview. There wasn’t much that could be done about that, and since Gina’s time is at a premium, there was little choice but to let these rare imperfections slide.
If you enjoy the podcast, please let us know. Leave us a rating and review in iTunes; it’ll help people find us and build up our listenership. We’re working hard to bring some great guests on — and we’ve already had some great ones — so if you have any suggestions on guests or what you’d like to hear, let us know in the comments. We’re starting to roll out some of the suggestions we’ve received as of this week’s podcast, such as the expanded show notes. There’s more improvements to come.
Our goal…to be the podcast destination for those who want to do (and are doing) awesome work.
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Law students have their work cut out for them. The economy doesn’t have jobs for them, the public refers to them as “ambulance chasers” (at least the personal injury ones) and law school only teaches them theoretical topics that will be useless to the firms hiring them.
You’re pretty much useless straight out of law school, since the firm that hires you (if you’re lucky) will spend most of its time training you to do the tasks that they need you for. And that’s just if you’re in the top percentile of your class. If you’re an extraordinary extra-curricular law student that is involved in every aspect of the social scene but do not have straight A’s…well, you’re pretty much passed over in the job hunt.
So what’s someone going to do to make some contacts?
Network. Network like crazy. Because people like friendly, out-going people that are easy to communicate with.
Let’s look at it from the old perspective of “street smarts” and “book smarts”.
The straight A, top of his class student is considered book smart. He doesn’t read books. He devours them– and eats the appendix for dessert.
The typical B student might have a very similar grasp of the material, but he won’t be able to quote verbatim from the textbook. Instead, he has the whole student government, the Dean and three high-profile professionals on speed dial. He’s street smart — and people know it.
Now, that’s not to say these two characters can’t be the same person. The straight A student can also be extremely extroverted and connected, but sometimes sacrifices study time for social time. The B student can also hit the books hard when warranted.
So when the most important thing to survive is to network, how do you go about it?
Get Out More
Obviously, you can’t network if you’re stuck in the library all day. Get out more.
Go to meetings and social events in your niche. Most organizations that cater to various niches have some sort of gathering every once in a while. Check out yours.
Body Language
Let’s say Mr. Book Smart and Street Smart are at an event. Mr. Book Smart brought a paperback that he needs for class, just in case he won’t be able to talk to anybody. He gives up trying to start a conversation after about 15 minutes, finds a table at the end of the room and starts reading. He occasionally looks up and goes to the bar once or twice where he stands with his arms crossed while he waits for his drink.
Meanwhile, Mr. Street Smart is picking up on conversations at the bar, laughing at jokes and inserting himself into discussions. His quick-wit banter is infectious and he starts talking to some heavy-hitters that are there for happy hour.
Which one do you think will end up with a plausible contact after this evening’s entertainment?
Find Common Ground
Some people like talking about their work. Others don’t. But everybody likes talking about their interests.
Don’t start a conversation that’s purely work-based and incredibly transparent to your ultimate goal. Rather, start a casual conversation about anything and see if you can find common ground.
People connect with you better when you have something in common with them, so it’s a good rule to try to find something out about their interests that you can relate to. I had a funny conversation with a Yale MBA graduate about funny last names (which we shared), so it can easily be any off-the-wall subject you can find.
Ask!
Seriously, ask for a card. People don’t order their business cards to make them sit in their drawer. There is a reason why they order 250 at a time. And if you shared an interesting conversation there is no reason not to try a follow up. Even if you don’t know if they will ever be able to give you a job, having the contact might help in the long run. It certainly can’t hurt.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon illustrates how close those in Hollywood are connected to Kevin Bacon by their working with other actors, directors and so on. Similarly, if you can connect by knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone (you know where this is going) chances are there might be a job connection or career opportunity along the way.
Follow Up
How do you follow up? Obviously, you can’t be best friends and keep contact with everyone. And not a lot of people are interested in pursuing an email relationship with someone who they met at a networking event., especially if there is no clear goal.
So follow up with a relevant email that solidifies the relationship. You could inquire about a job, or you can even offer your own services if you think you have something to offer. Keep it real. Keep it brief. But keep it relevant.
Conclusion
In the end, Mr. Book Smart didn’t think networking events were any good. He decided that they were a waste of his time since there was nobody there to meet and network with. But Mr. Street Smart ended up playing afternoon golf every Friday with Mr. Big Shot because they hit it off and shared a mutual fascination with the Colorado River.
So was it a waste of time for Mr. Book Smart, or did he just not know how to play the game?
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Most people have a schedule or timetable to be able to plan out their days. But if you have one for work, this’ll probably be the most hectic. Luckily, there’s a wealth of ways to help you manage your schedule and a lot of those solutions are available on shiny Apple devices. After paying $500 or more, surely an extra few to save you countless hours will be worth it.
Being able to have a clear view of what’s ahead will help to increase your productivity by reducing the time you need to work out what to do. Then you can just get started on what’s important: the work.
A lot of my free time is spent writing for various causes. The biggest, coincidentally, are for the various Envato sites that I contribute to. Even since getting my iPad early last year, I’ve been trying to find a viable timetabling app that’s oriented around tasks rather than events. Here’s my roundup of the five apps that I’ve found to be the best.
1. Sorted
Sorted is a fairly simple, yet ingenious app for the iPad that serves as a checklist. You can add tasks to it with all only a title required. You can leave it at that or you can add notes, set priorities and schedule reminders.
The highlight of this specific app is the role that priorities serve. You can create levels of priority in the settings (from a bank of many colours) and use these to easily identify the most — or least — important tasks.
Sorted also allows you to create multiple task lists and navigate between them in a document view. This means you can create different checklists for different scenarios (home, work, etc.) or create lists on a day-by-day basis.
Sorted is available for $0.99 in the App Store.
2. Todo
Todo is an iPhone and iPad (although separate binaries) app that offers task management in a Filofax-like design. The app does what it says, but wasn’t any favourable to me over Sorted.
However, Todo offers a range of features over Sorted such as password protection, recurring events and syncing. Syncing co-operates with Microsoft Office Outlook and Apple’s iCal app so it can fit into your work ecosystem, too. Todo also offers the ability to create projects with sub-tasks so you can organize your goals even further.
Unfortunately, all these extra features that Todo offers comes at a premium of $4.99 for either iPad or iPhone.
3. Things
Things is a popular Mac app which migrated onto the iOS platform for both the iPhone and iPad. On the iPad, the app is just beautiful — being one of my favourite apps by design. Most the features available in Things are also available in Todo (above) but the interface means it reigns over Todo.
Things also features syncing back to the desktop Mac app, which is sold separately.
This app is among the most expensive available, priced at $19.99 in the App Store with the iPhone version priced at $9.99.
4. iStudiez Pro
iStudiez is an app aimed at students, but the app can easily be adapted to suit anyone who has a recurring schedule. There is two main features of this app: schedules and assignments. The schedule option allows you to setup a recurring timetable and factor in semesters and holidays. These can be utilised in a work environment too, if you want to factor in something like a Christmas break.
The “assignments view” is the task management feature that allows you to set up homework (or just tasks) and add reminders in for them. The interesting part of this is you can assign work to a course you have setup in the schedule view. This is yet another feature that can be adapted to a work environment.
iStudiez also has a nice, custom user interface that’s clearly aimed at the education environment (with book and chalkboard backgrounds). The app is optimized for both for the iPhone and iPad for $2.99. If you’re looking for an iPhone app in this realm, take a close look at this, as the iPhone version also differs from the default UI to bring a fresh spin in terms of interface.
5. Easy Note
Easy Note is certainly not the most functional on this list, but I thought it would be best to include a free option for the cost-effective worker. Easy Note is a very simple app that is similar to Sorted in functionality, but not in design. In fact, Easy Note does not differentiate at all from the iPad’s default user interface.
Easy Note is very simple what it does: add tasks, set its priority and date and then check them off.Easy Note is great if you just want something quick and easy that allows you to save money by removing any sort of custom user interface, such as those employed by Things and Todo. You can, however, actually add photos to tasks — something that isn’t featured in the other apps discussed here.
Easy Note is available for free in the App Store.
How I Train: Fitness for the Everyperson
If you read Zen Habits regularly, you would know that its creator Leo Babauta likes to talk about his fitness and exercise routine. IAnd to think that just 5 years ago he was in terrible shape. In this post, he talks about his past and then about how he made himself fitter and healthier. Inspiring to say the least.
Fifteen Ways to Enjoy Your Work More—Whatever You Do
The FeelGooder blog has a great post which has some useful advice on how to really enjoy the daily grind at office — or wherever you work. Some of the tips are common sense while some — like doing your toughest work first — are something that not everyone knows about (or, more likely, implements).
My Essential Mac Applications
Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder lists his essential Mac apps in this series of posts (Note: The above link lands on part 5 of the series; he links to the previous posts in this article, too). That means there’s a list of 25 useful Mac apps that the author felt he had to install on his new Mac shortly after purchasing it in order to be more productive. If you own a Mac (or are planning to buy one), I suggest you bookmark the post for quick access.
6 Tips for Keeping Your Remote Team Motivated Happy
It’s not easy when you are working with people around the world remotely. The lack of face to face interaction can sometimes take its toll. This post at the Web Worker Daily blog offers some practical tips on how one can keep a remote team motivated to produce great work each day.
110 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads
Our sister site FreelanceSwitch offers a huge list to get new clients and more freelance work. If you go through the list, you’ll find that it has something for just about everyone and not just hardcore freelancers.
While you’re at FreelanceSwitch, check out the only hand-moderated job board built exclusively around the unique way freelancers find work right here.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to explain to a friend why links from high PageRank sites is often overrated. When he then insisted that I was contradicting advice I had given him earlier, I was confused for a moment, until he gave me a concrete example.
“Didn’t you say that a link from a high PageRank site like HubPages or Squidoo was better than a link from a low PR site?”
I finally understood his confusion. It wasn’t what I said, but what he heard. Whenever I talk about “web pages”, people hear “web sites” and assume the two are synonymous. You might think that going over this distinction (which I’ve alluded to in earlier posts) is splitting hairs, but it actually does matter for link building and content development.
Pages Matter More Than Sites
Links point to individual web pages, not sites. Google results list individual web pages, not sites. Occasionally, Google will list a site’s home page as a search result, but the result itself is for that page specifically, not a referral to the site as a whole. These facts are pretty obvious when stated plainly, but they’re easy to lose site of when listening to some SEO theorists.
Consider a commonly stated piece of advice: that half of any backlinks you create in your article marketing and guest posts should point to your home page, while the other half should point to the post you’re trying to promote. In other words, if you’ve written an Ezine article to promote your post about Acme Flea Collars on your site, Catluvers, one of your Ezine article resource links should link to the catluvers.com home page and the other link should point to catluvers.com/acme-flea-collars.htm.
Using one of your allotted Ezine links isn’t necessarily harmful, but it does have an opportunity cost. You would probably get more leverage from the article if you pointed the link toward another post that needs some love from the search engines. If your site has any reputation or authority, other bloggers will link to your home page without any prompting from you. This would typically appear in the form of “Catluvers has a great article on Acme Flea Collars”, but getting them to deep link (i.e. link to a specific post within your site) with the appropriate anchor text (e.g. “Acme Flea Collars”) is much harder, even if you have an authority site. Unfortunately, most bloggers aren’t keyword savvy when it comes to choosing anchor text.
When people talk about a “site” being PageRank 6, what they really mean is that its home page is PageRank 6. This is usually because most of the links to an authority site are directed to the home page, as mentioned above. Home pages are what show up in blogrolls, which are sitewide links that appear on every page of the blogs containing them. So a site’s home page gets a disproportionate amount of link juice.
What needs to be understood is that this disproportion of link distribution is the only reason the home page matters more to search engines than other pages. Strictly speaking, the home page is just one more page in a site with no inherent significance beyond its navigational value to users. If you have the Google Toolbar installed, or use an extension link SearchStatus for Firefox, you can go to the home page of WorkAwesome and compare its PageRank to pages for individual posts. The WorkAwesome home page is currently PR6, but most individual posts will fall somewhere between 0 and 4.
Why The Distinction Matters
When I told my friend that links from high PageRank sites were overrated, the reason is that those same sites get the highest volume of submissions (because everyone else believes that high PR sites result in stronger links), resulting in a higher turnover rate.
Consider Postrunner, the guest posting system I mentioned in a recent post. Until recently, Postrunner listed the PageRanks of each site in its network, so the vast majority of users would submit their posts to sites with the highest PageRank (i.e. the sites whose home pages had the highest PageRank). So the low-PR sites never received any new content, while the high-PR sites would only feature a new post on the home page briefly before being pushed into the archive by newer posts.
In other words, a new post to a PR5 site would stay on the home page for less than a day. During that time it would benefit from that page’s link juice, then would eventually be relegated to a page of its own. The only way such a post would retain any link juice would be to either get linked from the home page in the sidebar (e.g. “Recent Posts”), or to get links from other sites.
For posts on your own sites, you can help them out somewhat with some internal linking. Determined the keyword you want your posts to rank for, then search Google for the pages within your site that already rank highest for that keyword: e.g. “site:catluvers.com acme flea collars”. Then, go into a few of the top pages and edit them to include a link to the target page with the proper anchor text (“Many cat owners claim that Acme Flea Collars offer exceptional protection”, which “Acme Flea Collars” links to catluvers.com/acme-flea-collars.htm).
Domain Name Relevance
Another aspect of pages mattering more than sites involves the keyword congruence between an individual post and the domain name of the site on which it is published. Like high PageRank, domain name relevance is overrated — if you build links to the post you’re trying to promote. All things being equal, I would rather have 10 links to a post on cat flea collars on RockClimbing.com than no links to the same post on Catluvers.com.
The one exception would be for an exact match domain name: CatFleaCollars.com would probably outperform RockClimbing.com with no links — but the advantage is relative. In highly competitive niches, like weight loss or payday loans, link building activity is so aggressive that it would be naive to rely on an exact match domain to give you a boost in the search engines without doing a comparable amount of link building yourself.
The Bottom Line
Simply put, if you have a post that you want to get on the first page in Google, you can’t rely on home page traffic or domain name relevance. You need links – period.
This year is still relatively “new”, so you’ll find that people have not yet stopped talking about goals and resolutions. However, we’re also at the time of year when the enthusiasm about all that stuff starts to wane.
So, to get you back into the goal setting (and executing) mode, I thought I’d point your attention towards an interesting article by Web Worker Daily that discusses 3 goal setting tips that don’t work — and then offers 3 that do.
It’s an interesting post because it dares to contradict some very common goal setting tips, while presenting a counter-argument as to why each of the common tips aren’t really all that useful. Furthermore, it tells you what you should do instead.
So while you see others letting their lofty goals fall by the wayside, you can heed some of the advice offered and have a renewed sense of realism about your own goals. (That said, you may want to share the advice with others rather than letting them watch their own goals slip away…)
A worthwhile read for a worthwhile cause — your own ambitions.
3 Goal Setting Tips That Don’t Work (And 3 That Do)
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This week’s episode of the WorkAwesome podcast features a “less than minimal” interview with renowned minimalist and talented writer Patrick Rhone. Patrick’s writing covers the landscape of productivity, technology analysis and practical tips, all with a tremendous amount of articulation, thoughtfulness and flair.
Patrick is the writer and curator at Minimal Mac, a website that promotes subjective simplicity to Mac users everywhere. However, Patrick’s philosophy goes beyond the Mac platform alone (although admittedly, it is his platform of choice) and he has taken it to the next level with his new podcast, entitled Enough – The Minimal Mac Podcast.
Patrick and WorkAwesome editor Mike Vardy discuss the nature of minimalism (what it is and, more importantly, what it really is), workflow and the crux of the term “enough” as he sees it. Since Patrick is a busy guy, we delve into how he achieves balance in all that he does — both in work and life — and the shift that has been happening for him with the rising success of his writing career. He also mentions some of those that he thinks are doing awesome work with their writing these days. We even talk about email strategies.
If you enjoy the podcast, please let us know. Leave us a rating and review in iTunes; it’ll help people find us and build up our listenership. We’re working hard to bring some great guests on — and we’ve already had some great ones — so if you have any suggestions on guests or what you’d like to hear, let us know in the comments. We want to be the podcast destination for those who want to do (and are doing) awesome work.
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