Modern business is dynamic. Company management is a prerogative of people who
are able to quickly make correct decisions and are able to bear responsibility
for the team. The ideal Leader is the person who clearly distributes the powers
and at the same time holds finger on the pulse keeping all the processes in the
company both external and internal under control. It is interesting, fascinating
and extremely difficult.

But if there is a demand there will be supply: leading business solution for
managers – Company Management System – LeaderTask.

LeaderTask Company Management System

You are certainly familiar with modern, convenient and effective electronic
organizer CRM LeaderTask.

Now the Company Management System is released on its basis, however it is
equipped with additional advanced services. First of all a multi-user operating
system (Task Management System) was realized. That's why besides the main
services such as:

Task Planner;
Personal Information Manager;
Calendar;
Project Manager;
Contact Manager
LeaderTask Company Management System affords an opportunity for creating a
single information base. At that you will be able to competently distribute
tasks among the employees and monitor their progress. Using LeaderTask Company
Management System you will also be able to:


Organize paper and electronic documents;
Correctly plan negotiations, deals, long-term and current projects;
Organize effective joint cooperation;
Limit the employees' access to any documents;
Assign any task to a certain executor specifying task duration and priorities;
Carry out detailed monitoring at any point;
Assess every employee's quality of work in a moment;
Receive regular and detailed report on current and performed works;
Receive complete review of company's activity even in case you are absent.
Besides that the LeaderTask Company Management System is absolutely mobile like
the business organizer. All settings are stored only in one folder without
affecting OS and other catalogues. That's why the program can be easily and
conveniently transported using a usual flash memory card and transferred from
one computer to another. And the synchronization function allows a single
LeaderTask base to be used in several places at once.

Multi-User Task Management System

In order to start work it is required to install LeaderTask Company Management
Program on computers of all employees and to specify the server address. In its
turn the server will find all clients and will customize required settings by
itself. New employees can be connected to the server when necessary. This will
enable them to quickly get into the swing of things and start to work. If your
server is unavailable for technical or any other reasons the subordinates will
be able to successfully get on with their work offline.

Work Start

In order to start let's familiarize ourselves with the program interface. Tabs
of main group toolbars are located to the left in the sidebar. The titles are
displayed in them and the main part of the desktop displays their detailed
interpretation. For example, the period with the current calendar is displayed
to the left and to the right the detailed list of tasks for that period is
displayed.

The principle of operation is similar to that of the LeaderTask business
organizer you can also create tasks by grouping them by projects. Being in the
main informational panel you can switch between contacts, categories, projects
and calendar, however unlike the organizer a new «Employees¿ tab was added to
the program. By clicking this tab you will see a list of all employees connected
to the server. By selecting somebody from the list you will receive a status
report of the selected employee with task priority, task duration and task
deadlines on the right.

Formation of the list of employees is similar to filling in the contacts. But at
that the subordinates are given the opportunity to fill in their own profile
with analytical data, contact phone number, position and other data by
themselves. Employees who are connected to the server mark their own profile
with «Favorite¿ from their computer and form a list of personal contacts by
themselves.

Filtering

Like in the organizer the main function of filters in this system is the
provision of a simple and effective tool on company activity review. They help
to effectively manage tasks, instantly receive the required information and
detailed review of cases by any selected criterion.

If desired, the filter can be created by several conditions. The following
conditions can be selected: employees, projects, categories, contacts with
specification of exact time. The selected filter can be added to tabs, to
navigator panel or can be made available in the toolbar quick menu.

Filtering in the calendar is set in several ways:

floating: length of time as well as its allowable shift should be specified;
stringent: tight timeframe should be specified;
terminal: time interval as well as possible shifts and filter operating period
inside it should be specified.
Unified Information Field


On request the possibility of transfer of your contacts, various notes, files
and tasks to other connected employees was realized. At that all related
documents can be attached to the transmitted information. For example, by
transferring a task to another employee you can attach the accumulated material,
necessary contacts, personal comments and notes to it at ones. Thus, a single
information base that includes official documents, a list of all correspondents
with comments and detailed information is created. However, only the system
owner has full access to it. Besides that the possibility of communicating on
the internal network messenger was realized that also promotes cooperation and
effective work of all employees.

Delegation of Tasks

Undoubtedly, the most important function of LeaderTask Company Management System
is the possibility of assignment and distribution of tasks. For example, the
Leader creates the «Opening of new office¿ project, accompanies it by personal
comments, sets deadlines and selects his/her Associate Leader as executor. In
its turn the Associate Leader divides the project into several tasks, for
example: «Selection of suitable premises¿, «Recruitment¿, «Budget¿ and delegates
every task to certain employees, «Budget¿ - to Chief Accountant, «Recruitment¿ -
to Office Manager, «Selection of suitable premises¿ - to Manager. And they in
their turn make a detailed plan and redelegate part of the work to other
colleagues. For example, the Office Manager finds a suitable recruiting agency
and creates the «Look through a standard form contract¿ subtask and delegates it
together with the task deadlines to the Lawyer. Then having signed the prepared
contract with the recruiting agency and having selected the correct candidates
the Office Manager coordinates the interview time with the Leader, so the
«Interview¿ subtask is transferred directly to him/her. The calendar and
automatic reminder won't let the project participants forget to perform any
tasks and at the same time every participant is given the opportunity of direct
monitoring of the ongoing work. And the Leader by selecting the «Opening of new
office¿ project will be able to visually see the current task status, task
executors as well as to look through the archive of the work performed on the
project.

Access Restriction

No less important an option that allows to distribute activities between
employees. So the participant has the right to view only the projects that are
assigned to him/her or those created by himself/herself. Only the direct owner
of LeaderTask has complete control over the whole company activity. Thereby the
possibility of intrigues of competitors and leakage of valuable information is
ruled out.


Assessment of Every Employee's Quality of Work

By selecting any employee from the menu you automatically receive extensive
information on the selected employee. That is a list of cases, current projects
and tasks, an archive of all works performed and your own comments concerning
his/her activity. Using the calendar you can trace the punctuality of task
performance or to whom it was delegated. All this gives a wonderful opportunity
to instantly assess the quality and successfulness of the employee's work.

Ideal Archive

LeaderTask Company Management System is equipped with the function of automatic
creation of backup copies of files during work. So you shouldn't worry about the
loss of important information. Besides that the system keeps absolutely all
history of relationships between employees, clients and partners. It stores
complete project management history, assigned tasks performance history as well
as message handling history. Thus, the system is an ideal archive. By selecting
any period of time in the past you will see a detailed situation with all
projects, delegated tasks, messages and contacts for the selected period of
time.

Summing Up

LeaderTask Company Management System is a useful and multifunctional assistant
using which you can organize the effective and well coordinated work of all
employees, correctly distribute tasks and have complete control over the whole
company activity.

The program by itself amazes by the abundance of thought-out and rather useful
trifles. Of course, they do not complicate the interface at all, however the
surprising flexibility and the possibility to adapt the program to absolutely
any even to a force majeure situation wins over.

Work with the program will become much easier for you if you have already used
the LeaderTask organizer, but even if it is not so the time you have spent to
master the Company Management system will be more than compensated later on.

More information on the program can be found at the developers' website:
http://www.leadercommand.com/

Download free 45 day program version:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/ltcompany.zip

A new version of LeaderTask Company Management 6.1 has been released!
What's new?

LeaderTask Company Management is a program for managing the activity
of a group of people - both small teems and large organizations. The
LeaderTask system helps the head of a company quickly get information
about the current state of affairs regarding projects, tasks, employees.

LeaderTask Company Management features:

1)Multi-user tasks management system for the company's employees
simultaneous use.
2)Real-time project management.
3)Task assignment: the responsible person, terms, priorities, attitude
to projects, categories.
4)Monitoring all assigned tasks: what tasks are in progress, at what
stage they are, their history...
5)Monitoring the workload of the company's staff.
6)Evaluating every employee's efficiency.
7)Comprehensive overview of the company's current affairs, even if you
are a away for a long time.
8)Regular reports about employees' work
9)Clear overview of tasks from customers: who ordered (assigned),
terms, priority, task details.
10)Effective team cooperation: quick message, file, note, document
exchange...
11)Clear information access right distribution. Employees have access
only to those tasks that were delegated to them, only the owner has
access to the entire database.
12)Communication history: employees, partners, customers, suppliers...
13)Complete history for tasks, projects, messages, employees.
14)Managing documents sorted by clients, projects, time, priority.
15)Replacing paper reports from managers

Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/ltcompany.zip

WWW:
http://www.leadercommand.com/

A new version of LeaderTask 6.0 has been released!
What's new?


+ Full export / import of MS Outlook
+ Import from GoogleCalendar iCal format
+ Working with multiple data files:
    (new / open / save)
+ Added option selecting the font in the taskbar
+ Improved notes and links
+ Realized a lot of small improvements and bug fixes


Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

A new version of LeaderTask 5.83 has been released!

What's new?

- Improved work with notes
- Improved links
- Added setup notes
- Fixed shortcomings in the properties of task

Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

--- In time_management_software@yahoogroups.com, "michelesew"
<chellieanne@...> wrote:
>
> Wanted to use this program with David Allen's GTD but having some
> problems navigating.  In playing with it I lost the Task Button.
> Feeling very frustrated and confused by the filters also.
>
> I think I will find this program very helpful once I understand.
>
> Thanks,
> Michele
>

Please read it:
http://www.leadertask.com/content/view/89/34/

Wanted to use this program with David Allen's GTD but having some
problems navigating.  In playing with it I lost the Task Button.
Feeling very frustrated and confused by the filters also.

I think I will find this program very helpful once I understand.

Thanks,
Michele

Imagine, a person with a tight schedule runs a small business or
manages a project; or he is a self-employed person and has to schedule
his work time so that there is enough free time for spending with the
family and friends. Often it's quite difficult to plan a flexible
time-table and to perform all the duties on schedule. Deadlines
looming and the work is only half way done. It's not a problem any
more! LeaderTask 58 will solve all the problems in a given time frame
as quick as never before.

Severodvinsk, Russia, September 12, 2008 - Almeza Company today
announces the release of LeaderTask v. 58 - a new version of a smart
business organizer for modern people that will help organize time,
increase the activity effectiveness, minimize the routine, remove
strain from business, get rid of fuss and reveal the deposits of free
time. LeaderTask 58 is not only a business organizer, but also a
Personal Information Manager, Calendar, an Address Book and a Contact
Manager. «A small case that allows me to keep all those one-time
pieces of information off my mind. You work with the program like
this: you write it down and forget it. Then you see it and do it. I
liked the easy task overview, including strategic goals and tactic
plans», says Vladimir Anastasin, CEO, FastSoft – company's client.
LeaderTask is a unique personal business organizer with new conceptual
management of tasks, projects, time and persons activity. The software
will replace scattered paper notes, colored stickers on the PC screen
and other out-of-date time management methods. Now all the plans and
tasks will be stored in a safe place. By just hitting Ctrl+Alt+A it is
possible to add new tasks or to view the current ones. The software is
constantly at hand and on the lookout in the windows tray icons. All
the LeaderTask features have their special tags that help to filter
the needed tasks. Thus, by just one mouse click the user can quickly
open: «Me Today», «IMPORTANT», «URGENT», «Monthly Sales», «Project XYZ
In October», «Delegated Tasks Monitoring», «Bank», «To Buy», «To
Read», «Year Goals» and more. Besides, it's possible to adjust
LeaderTask the way most convenient for the user. LeaderTask also
allows applying the David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology.
What's more, any task in LeaderTask can be applied to any context most
convenient for the user. The context can be in form of a place (home,
office, bank etc.), a contact (boss, employee, wife/husband), or a
category of a project. To put it simple, any task can be applied to
its context – in the most convenient circumstances for its performing.
If the task should be performed in the bank, it's better to fill it
into the «Bank», if a task is extremely important it should be
assigned with a correspondent priority and so on.
LeaderTask is: an aid for the PC memory, as it's difficult to keep
large amount of information in mind; a visual overview and full
control of the user activities; always at hand, as it's easy to access
the organizer with the help of hot-keys; a storage of absolutely any
information (documents, diagrams, images); a customize interface
(customize the position the main toolbars, format the task tree, color
task categories, specify options and more); a ready solution (new
skills teaching, new implementation in the form of educational
training course); a software with an individual approach. LeaderTask
is like a personal manager or secretary for a user.
Other features include displaying tasks in a form of a tree, and a
calendar; filtering tasks, reminders, comfortable navigation, personal
information manager, user interface and flexible settings, password
manager, file container, link manager, data backup and more.
LeaderTask is used to automatically keep record of all operations –
those of the PC user, his family or company. LeaderTask will
automatically generate a schedule for the user, taking into account
all the projects and tasks. The program will considerably increase the
level of the user business and personal time organization. Now all the
thoughts and plans will be in  a stable system.
LeaderTask has a portable-version, thus the user will have the
software always at hand wherever he is. Portable-version can be
written on a flash card, it requires no installation, therefore all
the data is stored and saved in its folder.
By purchasing the software, the user gets a license key that
automatically makes him a participant of marketing stocks with a
chance to win a prize. By the use of the main license, the user can
form additional license that will help his relatives purchase the
product license on a lower price. LeaderTask helps organizing things
more efficiently without wasting the person's time!
Pricing and Availability
LeaderTask v. 58 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista,
Intel Pentium II and higher, with 64 MB RAM and 15 MB on the hard
disc, mouse or touchpad required.

Software link: http://www.leadertask.com
Download link: http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe
About Almeza Company
Founded in 2005, Almeza Company is a quickly developing software
company producing quality software for Windows. All products of Almeza
Company are available in more than 80 languages. The company's
employees are experts in system programming, interface design and PC
workflow automation. The company's key to success is a close
communication with its customers.
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NOTE TO EDITORS:
Postal address: Russia, Severodvinsk, Post office box 59, 164522
E-mail: Ivan.abramovsky@...

How do I use LeaderTask in my everyday life?

Business

New projects
Creating and developing a new project requires attention and
preciseness. There are no trifles in it. Any detail may turn into a
drawback and a drawback may be fatal for the project. New trends
appearing regularly are a peculiarity of my job. Something is dropped
later, something turns into working schemes. Any project starts from
creating a scheme. A scheme is a mind map. (I will not dwell on the
convenience and techniques of using mind maps in this article, if you
get interested, you can always find more information on the Internet.)
A ready mind map is easily entered into LT with its tree-like
structure of tasks. Then you only have to determine specific deadlines
and assign responsible persons. Determine checkpoints. (A checkpoint
is a point on a timeline corresponding to the time when the progress
is checked in this or that project. The current progress of the
project is checked, which makes it possible to track the dynamics and
make amendments, if necessary.) After that you can use the obtained
information to make a decision what to do next: - continue it; - stop
it; - modify the direction of the project.

Development program implementation
Any enterprise has a program of its strategic development. It includes
searching for new partners, enlarging the assortment of products,
finding new markets and so on and so forth. Of course, every
enterprise has its trends and priorities. However, there is a certain
sequence of actions that should be followed by particular people in
order to implement this program. That is when an organizer comes in -
it is LT in my case, of course. It helps to monitor the market and
thus get up-to-date information about it. Not to miss meetings with
clients and partners. Plan and monitor the implementation of plans.

Advertising
Advertising a company is a complicated and long process. It already
starts when you just decide to create this or that structure. Choosing
a name is the starting point. Quite a lot might be said about the name
and how it affects business, but we are here for a different thing. It
is enough just to understand that advertising starts at the very
moment when the business emerges. Then the main advertising formula
comes in: AIDA. Those who are in the advertising industry know what
I'm saying :) and I recommend that the rest of you who are interested
search for more information because I will not explain it better than
professionals while the understanding of this formula may dramatically
change your view on advertising. Advertising is a complex and
multipronged project and this project is quite dynamic. If you delay
anything in its implementation, it seriously affects the sales
statistics (that is, profit). Organizing and planning an advertising
campaign for a company is an eternal and constantly changing project,
being one of the most key ones as well. The way LT is used in
advertising is not basically different from the way it is used in
implementing the development program.

Sales
Using LT for sales purposes is a bit different from the above. In this
case it comes down mainly to monitoring the supply deadlines and the
terms of agreements in order to extend or re-sign them in time. Kind
of a advanced reminder, BUT do not forget that after I left this issue
to LT, I freed my mind and time for something else and at the same
time I do not lose clients and keep up with shipment deadlines.
Besides, I have an idea to link sales to production, i.e. plan
production and supplies for it according to processed orders, but this
scheme is in the state of development and testing yet.

Home

Payments
It is one of the primary home tasks for LT - monitor payments. Paying
for public utilities, intercom, insurance. All in all, everything that
is to be paid for goes through LT. It allows you not to remember what
and when you should pay. In fact, it is an indispensable assistant in
your everyday routine.

Credit
Credit is actually a payment that is stretched in time. However, it is
different from other payments because you will suffer worse
consequences if the payment is overdue no matter whether for you
personally or for your business. By the way, I do not deal with lease
and credit payments myself at work, but I have them all marked and I
do not forget to remind the CEO to make sure everything is alright
with them. Anyone may have sudden "sclerosis", someone may fall ill,
someone may have force majeure at home, but the business must not
suffer from it.

Purchases
Purchases are different. LT allows me to save money! :) How? Well, as
most people out there, after I get my salary, I go shopping in search
of essentials, however, "store - money - no shopping list"  is a great
combination, BUT for the store, not for you. When you come home after
this kind of shopping, you find lots of things in your bags, BUT you
have forgotten to buy feed for your favorite cat and bought another
tie, a "nice" addition to those that are already in your closet. After
another situation like this, I used ALEXA's advice about the dictating
machine. I recorded everything that came to my mind about purchases
and then I easily added to the list what I actually needed (by the
way, I liked the method so much that now I can barely imagine what I
would do without the dictating machine and my employees notice that my
memory is now much better. Now once I receive my salary, I first start
LT and look through what I'm going to buy and the printer prints me
this list in 5 seconds. The list with nothing unnecessary in it and
nothing essential left out. As a result, I optimize my expenses. (I
thought about suppliers while I was writing this... it feels like they
are going to get reorganized. ;) ).

Duties
All those home duties... well, that's easy. Wash my wife, refuel my
son and buy something for my car's birthday. Oh my God!!! There are
always so many of those duties that you are sure to confuse or forget
something and what about business, social activities and things to
deal with in court... Anyway, I could go on and on about it, but I
think you know it all without me. So, it our favorite LT that is to
deal with these heaps of duties. As a result, nothing is neglected or
forgotten, everything is done quickly and in no rush. The car tank is
full, the son is clean and the wife is happy. :)

Vacation
It is my first vacation planned with the help of such methods. I
cannot share my vacation experience with you so far because it's only
ahead, BUT I guess I will not forget anything. We will visit as many
beautiful sights as we wish (the list of possible sights is compiled
and combined by two parameters. The opinions of those who have been
there and the geographical location.) I hope the trip will be just fine.

How does LeaderTask help me?

Never forget
Memory is a wonderful thing, you can remember every detail of what
they showed on television 30 years ago because you had just then
bought a new color television set (it was a big event back in the
days)... and completely forget what was SO IMPORTANT that the director
general told you a minute ago. That is why I really appreciate the
ability to remember and not to forget anything under any
circumstances. I don't even mention that a timely reminder can be
simply invaluable.

Keep everything in order
Order. I do not think I have to explain what order is and how
important it is. And I think order in one's activities leads life to
success and the person to self-realization. You have to have a clear
idea about your activities in order to effectively control them. WHAT?
WHERE? WHEN? Here are three questions that keep our activities in
order. But it is not enough to know the answers, you have to combine
different activities from different projects throughout the day and
that's when LT becomes an indispensable assistant. A well thought-out
sequence of actions allows you to simultaneously manage several
projects or trends without losing the quality of control. LT allows
you to remember everything and precisely define the priority of this
or that action having your finger on the pulse of what is going on.

Closely follow the sequence
There are actions in life that must go one after another. For example,
developing a business plan requires a completely precise set of
actions performed in a certain sequence. Breaking the sequence often
results in having to go back in order to complete something or even
revise all actions that follow.

Why is my life better now?

More spare time
Time is the only irreplaceable resource in our lives that is always
trying to sneak so that we do not notice it among the routine of
everyday activities. Irreplaceable means invaluable for me. That is
why I try to complete as much as possible within every single minute.
Life is short, but you want to complete, see, try and experience so
much. LT helps to save time and spend it sensibly. It serves as a kind
of "routine vise" that compresses it, or rather the time spent on
them. Of course, you do not have more time, but it allows you to
complete more during this short life.

More efficient work
The word EFFICIENCY means a lot for people who value time. It
determines a lot in their lives, it regulates lives taking control
over them. What is efficiency?
Economic efficiency is a key consideration when you make a decision
about production. In simple words, efficiency means that manufacturing
is carried out with minimum expenses, effort and losses. Economists
use a more precise definition. The term of economic efficiency means
such a situation when it is impossible to make a single change that
would make one person better off without making another person worse
off. Efficiency defined in theses terms is sometimes called Pareto
efficiency after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist.
Personal efficacy or self-efficacy means belief in the effect of one's
own actions and the belief that you have the capability to attain your
goals. It is one of the key terms in the social cognitive theory of
Albert Bandura. The overall self-efficacy consists of particular
self-efficacies existing in various fields of human activity. In some
of its research Bandura showed that one more cause of changes in
behavior may be the absence of belief in the efficacy of one's own
efforts. This discovery of Bandura is often referred to as the
self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy or self-efficacy belief means that
a person is sure that he will be able to behave successfully in a
complicated situation. That is, efficacy belief means the evaluations
of one's very specifically defined behavioral competence. (There is a
very interesting article in Wiki about self-efficacy at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy. I took the definitions of
efficiency and efficacy from Wiki.)
I think these definitions quite precisely reflect the essence of how
my life has improved with LT.

Project implementation time
The increase in efficiency naturally speeds up the implementation of
projects and plans. Planning and the precise and objective assessment
of the situation allow me to correctly distribute my resources and my
staff's resources to achieve the maximum productivity.

Control over situation
I have never had my activities in such an order and visualization. It
is really great that you may forget about anything you have planned
until the due time and you do not have to worry about missing the
moment at all. Any project is clearly visible by both time and people.
It is easy to track personal responsibility. Visualization allows you
to optimize the situation and correctly distribute resources. All that
allows you to feel confident and persistently pursue your goals.

What have I achieved?

Creating a company
Creating a new company, structure or department is a very tense period
of time, but on the other hand it is just the tip of the iceberg of
information that you have to process before you come down to taking
action. As to actions, they have to follow a clear and ordered plan.
All that is quite a tense work and involves several parallel
processes. I'm glad that all that is already behind and that my
estimates were pretty accurate and now we are where we planned to be.

Organizing the production
I will never forget it. Probably because I had never come across
organizing production before that. God, that' whole lot of thing. The
project was growing as an avalanche and sometimes it seemed like this
avalanche would bury us under the abundance of what was to be done,
but anyway, as they say, "you may fear it, but still do it". I have to
say that the resolute position of the director general was of great
help. In case of any doubts he would only say, "I'm sure you will cope
with it!" – and we did cope. I don't even know if I'll ever dare to go
through it again. And to be honest, if I had known what it was, I
would have gotten myself into it.

Implementing the marketing policy
The decision to change the marketing policy was not an easy one to
make. Indeed, why would you change anything that works well? But the
request to increase profitability led to enlarging the assortment of
products and changes in the target audience, which, in its turn,
resulted in rebranding and completely revising the marketing policy of
the company. It was the first time I was into rebranding, but since
the promotion of a company does not differ much from rebranding, there
was almost nothing new for me in it.

Good advertising campaign
Pushing a new product onto the market is always an interesting and
important moment. As a rule, a good start is a good advertising
campaign. And you can tell how well the campaign is only after you
evaluate the decrease in sales after it is over. There is always a
decrease, but it varies a lot and everything depends on the success of
the advertising campaign and, in my opinion, on how accurately you
reached your target audience.

What did LeaderTask change in my life?

Attitude to time

I realized that you can effectively manage your time
I had tried to make plans many times before that. I used to make use
of phones with their poor imitation of an organizer, thick diaries and
software products of this type. So why hadn't my attitude to time
changed before I started using LT? First, none of the previously used
solutions (to make it clear, I have never used Outlook from Microsoft)
provided this kind of visual representation of the situation. Of
course, visualization makes it much easier to perceive things and,
consequently, manage them more effectively. Second, it is through the
LT forum that I discovered time management, which resulted in revising
a lot of things first at work and then at home. Step by step, I
started to realize how much time I had been just wasting on
unnecessary things. The pace of work changed, no more rush and it
occurs to me that it has been two months already since we forgot
anything and had to do it in a hurry. And it is all despite the fact
that there has been quite a lot of events in the recent month. Time is
no longer our enemy we have to fight against, now at last I am in
control of my time.

Business relations

Top management attitude
I don't think I have to explain anyone the management attitude towards
an employee who does not forget anything, does all current work in
time and is efficient in all fields he deals with. What I would like
to explain is that I'm neither a genius nor a workaholic, I like days
off and holidays the same as you. It is just that I realized once that
life could be different and LT offered me a great help in this
realization by allowing me to turn my ideas into actual activities.

Subordinates' attitude
We are all PEOPLE, we are all subordinates and chiefs and we all
differentiate between good and bad chiefs. A good chief for me is an
objective one. He has to understand, help, ask about the results. He
has to both award and punish. A chief has to be both an inspirer and
an idea accumulator. He stimulates activity, my activity. How? With a
good word, useful advice, a penalty or an award. He helps me to grow,
he both guards me and makes me go all out changing my self-esteem. I
was lucky to have a REALLY GOOD CHIEF so now I have a role model. I
try to be a good chief as far as I understand it. I try to stick to
one basic principle suggested by a person who I really respect: "You
should be kind, but you must not be soft-hearted". A lot has changed
after I realized the difference. I think you have to ask my
subordinates about how they feel about me. I can only point out that
almost everyone who worked for more than 6 months with me maintain a
good relationship with me even after they quit, we call each other and
meet. One of my current partners used to be my subordinate and that's
what she said after she got some good luck and received a certain sum
of money, "I did not even think what to do, just found your number".
You just have to remember that a chief who does not know what his
subordinates do cannot be a good chief. And here LT comes in again
with its perfect list of who is doing what. It turns meetings with
subordinates into very constructive communication. In its turn, it
leads to personal growth and efficiency.

How more efficient have I become?

More efficient, much more

Now I have time for self-development
Now I have time that I have lacked for the last 4 years. Now I can
read books not only on economics, but just books, classic books. Now I
have time to go in for sport. No more rush in my life, now I feel
confident and safe. I'm no longer afraid to forget anything. So many
changes have come for this month and a half.

Many things that seemed to be delayed forever are now in progress
I think that anyone has such things in life that are left in a closet
for some future because there is never time to spend on them. I used
to have this kind of closet. But on some nice day I realized that it
was the day when I could afford it. I can afford to spend my time on
it without being afraid that it will negatively affect my business.
How do I feel about it? It is like a long-awaited meeting with an old
friend.

Acknowledgements

Developers
Thank YOU A LOT for this product. For its fast development. For a
completely unique forum with its unique atmosphere.
Thank you also for this [Contest] What did LeaderTask give me?
I give you my word, before I got down to writing it (because of the
licenses so generously offered :) and it's not that I don't have
money, but I consider this offer as an opportunity to earn software by
spending a bit of time), I had not realized how much changed in my
life, how I changed after LT appeared in my life and people it
attracted. As to forum, honestly I have never come across such
friendly and efficient communication. By the way, writing this
material has already taken two days :) . So may ideas come to my mind.
Understanding and surprise about how a simple software program created
with LOVE can change the life of those who gets to work with it and I
have no doubts that the developers love their creation.
Thank you for provoking me into writing this material with your
generosity.
GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE.

Alexxa
Thank you for "recording thoughts on the dictating machine SE k750i"
and later putting them into "XXXXX Organizer"
It really changed my life.

Vates
Thank you for the technique of writing books with the help of mind maps.
I have never managed to complete a job like this in such an easy and
pleasant way.

All active LT forum participants
Thanks to everyone who visits the forum, who posts their messages
there, who helps to develop our favorite LT with their ideas. Thank
you for being there!

WWW: www.leadertask.com
Forum: www.todoforum.com
Download: http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

I have set up several projects I need to manage.  The calendar view
for a month (which I set up manually as a "period") shows all of the
tasks for all of the projects in the period, but they all appear in
the same color and font, etc., so that the relevant project cannot be
distinguished at a glance -- even though LeaderTask automatically
assigns colors to each project as it is created.

Is there any way for the tasks to show in the calendar view in the
color of the related project?  If not, what't the purpose of the
program's assigning colors to projects?  (I know I can filter on a
project-by-project basis, but that doesn't solve my needs.)

Thanks.

I am a bit stupid about this sort of thing. How do you run it off a
flash disc? Literally, step by step, how do you set it up so it does
that? I would like to do it. Thank you.

--- In time_management_software@yahoogroups.com, "sbender62"
<nyv9-kara@...> wrote:
>
> I see a few references to a portable version:
>
> The organizer has a portable version, i.e. it is completely autonomous
> = mobile. LeaderTask depends neither on the computer, nor on Windows
> registry, it can easily exist on your flash drive and travel with you!
>
> I don't see any information about how to download it or if it is
> priced differently.  What are the details?

Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

Purchase:
http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=13741-4

If there is any advice or further information you want we shall be
happy to supply it.

I see a few references to a portable version:

The organizer has a portable version, i.e. it is completely autonomous
= mobile. LeaderTask depends neither on the computer, nor on Windows
registry, it can easily exist on your flash drive and travel with you!

I don't see any information about how to download it or if it is
priced differently.  What are the details?

The basic step in implementing total quality management is to judge the
organization's present reality. Organization's history, current
requirements, existing employee quality of working life...



http://www.brsx.co.uk/management/QMgmt/qmi.asp

Welcome to Time Management Community: www.todoforum.com !!!

Organizing the time of a modern businessperson

Money rules the world. It is the essence of the entire life of a
businessperson.

Money depends a lot on time as such. The more rationally you spend
time, the more profit (short-term or long-term) you get. This concept
is described in the old saying "Time is money".

Let's not waste time sorting out a huge heap of notes with scheduled
tasks or just thoughts and plans. That's the lot of a secretary whose
qualification is not very high. And YOU are a businessperson who makes
money. And you are interested in making your plans in the most
comfortable and effective way.

Thus we get the following factors important for a businessperson:

Planning
Saving time
Convenience
Mobility
These factors are closely interrelated and influence each other. They
are split apart only for conventional purposes.

Planning

Planning is the most important part in organizing any business, that's
what it all starts with. Planning allows you to choose the most
rational and effective methods of attaining your goals. This is a tool
for controlling and managing your business.

That's where the LeaderTask software organizer will be of much help.
It is a smart system for managing projects, events, tasks, etc.

With LeaderTask, it is very convenient to group different kinds of
activities by categories. For example, "Web development", "Testing".
You can create a task for each type of activity specifying deadlines
for its solution and the people who are responsible for it
("Contacts"). This way you can build the entire chain of scheduled
tasks in a visual form.

The "Calendar" tab is a convenient tool for monitoring both current
and future tasks. It is possible to configure the so-called floating
periods: the list of tasks for "today", "tomorrow". As well as strict
monthly or quarterly schedule periods. Everyone can select the variant
that suits them best.

The flexibility and convenience of the planning process comes down to
the fact that the person in charge knows what each employee is busy
with at the moment and what there is on the employee's to-do list. It
is possible to get summary information for each project: contacts,
expenses, deadlines, etc.

Saving time

The software solution you have before you is an effective tool for
planning your tasks. Other things do not distract your attention and
you spend your time rationally. Rationally means economically.

There are only 24 hours in a day and all efforts must be directed
towards the solution of particular tasks. No need to bear everything
in mind because this is fraught with forgetfulness and it can lead to
emergency situations.

When the entire list of tasks is before your eyes, you are busy with
particular tasks without paying your attention to unimportant things
and thus saving your time.

Convenience

Convenience influences how fast you can plan and solve all business
issues. The efficiency of a tool depends on how convenient it is.

LeaderTask is always at hand. If you are in office, the computer is on
your desk and you can open the organizer with a hotkey combination. If
you are going to have a ride around the city, a printout with
scheduled tasks will be a perfect reminder that will not let you
forget anything.

Mobility

Businesspeople need it as badly as their breath. Progress never stops
and so communications technologies provide you with everything you
need. If you are on a long trip, you can open your laptop computer and
LeaderTask is at hand.

Mechanisms used in this organizer allow you to store all data in one
place. And you can move it to other computers without any problems.
All necessary information will be within your reach.

Summary

Dear user, you have the most convenient tool for business planning at
your disposal. It helps businesspeople effectively organize their time
increasing the efficiency of their business. LeaderTask reduces all
routine and fuss in your activities to minimum. Having a clear and
detailed view of your activities, you will see all goals and
prospects. And nothing will stand in your way towards them.

Download planner LeaderTask
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

Task organizer LeaderTask
http://www.leadertask.com/

LeaderTask 5.5

What's new?

+ Outlook Contacts import
+ Protecting with a password
+ Notes printing
+ Contact summary
+ Italian language
+ Links generating approach has been reviewed
+ Projects have been reviewed

LeaderTask is a business organizer for a modern person. LeaderTask has
a smart system for managing projects, tasks, contacts, events.

Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

i ordered the ultimate version of ms office 2007 for uni student and
to my surprise, outlook looks exactly like leadertask, give or
take...or i suppose it's the other way around...?

Hi
has anyone managed to create recurring tasks?  Its mentioned in the
help file, but I can't find it anywhere!
We have a small insect museum and this would be a nice piece of
software to manage our various (recurring) tasks such as feeding,
cleaning etc.
regards

Paul Pestille

Hey, as for time of task, you can just drag the task around in a day
view or week view to the time you want. I am able to get this to work
fine but I am interested in the appointment function...I don't want to
have to manually enter in everything (although the paste button would
surely come in handy !) I have quite a few repeating events.


-------------------------------------------------------------
> Not certain what feature you are asking about... let me try to
> restate... In looking at your link/screen shots and my registered
> version of the software and the company web site.... It sounds like
> you can't see or get the 'calendar view' (tab?)to work.  The most
> you can see is the 'Task view' (tab?) which only get the the
> granularity of the day... not day and time. (which most people would
> feel is required for an effective appointment tracker.)
> Unfortunately, I do not see the exact verbiage that mentions
> the 'appointment option' is only in the 'full-blown version' of the
> software... but I think I see enough to see where you are having a
> problem.
>
> I can say that on my registered version, I also do not see
> the 'calendar or task tabs' that seem to be in the screen shot. I
> only have a task view. (So it looks like I have the same problem as
> you.)
>
> Now this is not a 'showstopper' for me as I have an
> appointment/calendar tool from the company and I needed a quick and
> dirty tool to track commitments/projects/tasks, but most importantly
> sub-tasks.... however, now that you have brought this to my
> attention, it is sort of irksome... What strikes me a unusual is
> that when you enter something like a task, it only gives you option
> of a day.... not day and time. (which, as I said above, would be
> needed for a true appointment tool) this is starting to have the
> look/feel of vaporware.  (I wonder if anyone from the company
> monitors this?) ... and provide direction.
>

I experimented with the program for a while, and I hope this helps. In
reply to a previous question, I know I am not confusing month view
with appointments :) I got the month view fine, but no appointments,
so if anyone figure that out, please share!

To get a month view:

1. Make sure to select "Calendar" in the left panel (the navigator)
2. Go to Edit --> Navigator --> New Period
3. A "Period Properties" should appear. Give it a title ie This Month,
assign to a group or not and give it a different color or not

4. Under type, select "Periodic"
5. Type in 31 for amount of days
6. Leave offset days at 0
7. In start date, select the first day of any month (for instance
November 1st, 2007)
8. In End date, select the last day of any month, for instance
(November 30th, 2007)
9. Click OK and now you have specified the month view.
10. To get the month view, click on "Calendar" tab at the bottom of
the program screen, next to the "Task" tab. Now you should see a view
of the current month.

I hope this helps, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask and
I'll try to get back to you.

--- In time_management_software@yahoogroups.com, "ilovefaerytales"
<ilovefaerytales@...> wrote:
>
> There is a mention that only the registered version can do
> appointments...but isn't the one offered at
> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/leadertask/#more-2173 considered a
> registered version? I can't find the appointment option. This is
not
> exactly a question but rather a comment I suppose.
>


Not certain what feature you are asking about... let me try to
restate... In looking at your link/screen shots and my registered
version of the software and the company web site.... It sounds like
you can't see or get the 'calendar view' (tab?)to work.  The most
you can see is the 'Task view' (tab?) which only get the the
granularity of the day... not day and time. (which most people would
feel is required for an effective appointment tracker.)
Unfortunately, I do not see the exact verbiage that mentions
the 'appointment option' is only in the 'full-blown version' of the
software... but I think I see enough to see where you are having a
problem.

I can say that on my registered version, I also do not see
the 'calendar or task tabs' that seem to be in the screen shot. I
only have a task view. (So it looks like I have the same problem as
you.)

Now this is not a 'showstopper' for me as I have an
appointment/calendar tool from the company and I needed a quick and
dirty tool to track commitments/projects/tasks, but most importantly
sub-tasks.... however, now that you have brought this to my
attention, it is sort of irksome... What strikes me a unusual is
that when you enter something like a task, it only gives you option
of a day.... not day and time. (which, as I said above, would be
needed for a true appointment tool) this is starting to have the
look/feel of vaporware.  (I wonder if anyone from the company
monitors this?) ... and provide direction.

--- In time_management_software@yahoogroups.com, "smykwb" <smykwb@...>
wrote:
>
> It there anything out there that says what features the next version
> is going to bring?
>

This is what I would like to see....

1) I would like an option for a task to go 'up' in priority as it get
closer to the due date...
2) I would like to have an audit report to show what tasks may be
overdue
3) Would like have an option for a reoccurring task

It there anything out there that says what features the next version
is going to bring?

Like the program... bought the program... like to get rid of the
default data.

Hello,
I just downloaded the version from giveawayoftheday  and i am working
with the features and trying to still figure out how to properly work
with it. I am not aware of the appointment function -that is
interesting that you say that because I dont see it either. I did
registered and even updated it online
Let me know if you come to a solution regarding this issue.
Kirk

I On Nov 26, 2007 11:02 PM, ilovefaerytales <ilovefaerytales@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> There is a mention that only the registered version can do
>  appointments...but isn't the one offered at
>  http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/leadertask/#more-2173 considered a
>  registered version? I can't find the appointment option. This is not
>  exactly a question but rather a comment I suppose.
>
>



--
Kirk Fontaine
The IT Newbie
Student
Capella University

There is a mention that only the registered version can do
appointments...but isn't the one offered at
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/leadertask/#more-2173 considered a
registered version? I can't find the appointment option. This is not
exactly a question but rather a comment I suppose.

This looks like a great program in the screen shots.  I also got the
program from: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/leadertask/#more-2173.

Given the lack of an instruction manual, I'm so glad that I did not
pay more for the program!

I got it from: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/leadertask/#more-2173

It does mention that there are no free technical support...but
still...the software could at least come with a help file that tells
how to do some basic things.

Thanks anyways for your help though.

--- In time_management_software@yahoogroups.com, "ilovefaerytales"
<ilovefaerytales@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, can you explain the steps to making a daily appointment like
> described here: http://www.leadertask.com/content/view/56/60/
>

This function available at registered version.