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    The document discusses how constant connectivity through technology impacts communication and performance. It notes issues like continuous partial attention, increased task time, and alert addiction. It suggests constructing a personal communications strategy to manage effectiveness by meeting contacts where they are, using the right devices and accounts, setting use parameters, and being consistent and reliable. The strategy should include creating a file with communication rules to attach to contact information.

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    Why Are These Things Eating My Life?: Constructing Your Personal Communications Strategy

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    Terry Price Whitcher
    The document discusses how constant connectivity through technology impacts communication and performance. It notes issues like continuous partial attention, increased task time, and alert addiction. It suggests constructing a personal communications strategy to manage effectiveness by meeting contacts where they are, using the right devices and accounts, setting use parameters, and being consistent and reliable. The strategy should include creating a file with communication rules to attach to contact information.

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    Why are these things eating my

    life?
    Constructing Your Personal
    Communications Strategy
    By Terry P. Whitcher
    We’re ON!
    and other prepositions

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Chicken AND Egg
    • Team environments
    • Knowledge-intensive work
    • No borders
    – geography
    – hierarchical
    – time (clock & calendar)
    – location

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    The Brain Change
    • Response time improvements
    • Continuous partial attention
    • Operating in constant state of crisis
    • External locus of control

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Scrambled Eggs
    • Reacting not thinking
    • Not concentrating
    • Making mistakes
    • Increasing task time
    • Increasing the workload
    • Losing interpersonal skills
    • Alert Addiction

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Dysrationalia Approach
    • Don’t do any of it
    • Ignore it
    • Unplug

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Add Mindware to the Mix
    • Make your communications work for you
    • Improve performance
    • Manage for effectiveness
    • Enjoy communicating with people
    • Reduce stress

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Making the Connection
    1. Meet your friends & contacts where they are
    2. Get the devices and accounts that meet your
    needs
    – inbound and outbound
    – synchronous and asynchronous
    – one-to-one, or one-to-many
    3. Determine your use parameters
    4. Be consistent and reliable

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.


    Rules of Engagement
    A suggestion: create a file that you can attach to your vCard as a reminder for
    your contacts.

    (C) 2009 Fourthleaf Communications, Inc.

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