Archive for July 15th, 2010

If your office’s productivity has taken a dive during these summer months, there’s still time to turn things around before the leaves start changing colors.
To give productivity a boost, give these three proven tactics a try:
Cross-train your staffers. While this is always a great way to engage your workforce, it’s particularly effective during the summer [...]

Working in the private or public sector, you don’t necessarily have control over what software is installed on your computer system. There are good IT security reasons for this, of course, but sometimes it’s inconvenient. Likely you have Microsoft Office, or the equivalent, at your disposal. But do you have Visio? Project? Publisher?
I cannot count [...]

When times are tough, being smart is the minimum.
Sure, our aptitude and intellect are necessary to deal with mounting work demands, but if we can’t pull through as one, united team to make the right things happen, our individual know-how is of little use. Let’s admit it, when it’s no longer business as usual, we [...]

by Joelle Godfrey
Life is full of situations that you can’t control.  As a project manager this galls me on a regular basis, but I’ve learned to minimize the irritation by trying to focus on what I can control.
When you’re navigating your way through a Virtual Meeting and you narrowly escape being shipwrecked by Distractions, don’t [...]

by JACOB NAHIN
1. A no-brainer task manager.
Google says Android doesn’t need a task manager, that it closes programs efficiently without any user-intervention, substandard apps often suck memory dry. Because of this, Android users are forced to download complicated task-managers, each with its own odd UI, and weigh which one works the best. Google, please [...]