Smartphones: Making Your Business Etiquette Easier

Smartphones are powerful tools for professionals. Not only do they help you stay connected with your friends and family but also assist in making your profession go mobile. Keeping that in mind, Smartphones have also made it more difficult than ever for people to separate their jobs from the rest of their lives. Therefore it is important to maintain a balance between personal and professional life.

Below are the top tips for getting this balance right – designed to help busy people be productive and successful at work.

Top Tips

1.	Sometimes when you're in a position to get out of the office, then try to work from places that make you feel most comfortable. Working with this freedom allows teams to hold meetings outside the office in stimulating environments, as well as it enables people to work at times to suit them.
2.	You can always work on the smaller tasks while you commute so you can focus on the big jobs when you reach office.
3.	Spend some time every day to explore new websites or content to liberate your thinking and help inspire new ideas.
4.	Being seen as active on messaging apps can put more pressure on you to respond, so make sure you go offline once you are out of work space to separate personal and work life.
5.	Use a note taking app, like One Note on windows app store, on your mobile to capture your brilliant ideas whenever, wherever they strike.
6.	If you're dealing with an angry person or sensitive issue, try to handle this in person or at least on the phone.
7.	When an urgent mail or message pops up, don't let it distract you if you're under a deadline or in a meeting.  You can acknowledge it and say that you'll get back shortly on it.
8.	Don't get into emails before going to bed. Your responses will be better thought-out in the morning.

Keeping in mind the current security situation in the country, most people prefer having an affordable smartphone when they're on the move so can they check their emails and respond to their business queries whenever and wherever they want. Microsoft's Lumia 535 is currently the best affordable smartphone that proves to be handy in such situations. With a strong battery life and a 5 inch display, people can not only make unforgettable Skype video calls and seamlessly switch between voice and video with built-in Skype integration, but also access, edit and share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and OneNote notebooks, with the pre-installed Office suite. With 15GB of free OneDrive cloud storage, photos, videos and Office documents can be securely synced, and saved for easy sharing.