Introverts are “energized by being alone, and are depleted by being with people,” says career coach and behavior expert Robert Holmes. So, if your boss or co-worker seems to fall into this category, ask permission to enter their office, and once you’re in, keep it short.
Hold it right there!! Don’t stop reading this, because every line is important! Why?!
A recent Twitter hashtag contest from Wired to see who had the saddest workspace produced some truly awful #saddesk photos. Ergonomics and design experts weren’t pleased, noting that dingy work spaces affect productivity and mood. Clean up your space and put some thought into decorating and you’ll get more done!
The power of electronic location tracking has now given us the Tile tag, a small device to affix to anything from your keys to your laptop to your umbrella to track the things that go wandering off. A companion app for your phone helps track down a wayward item within 100 feet and will even […]
“Why is this picture printing out so blurry?” In this day and age, how a photo comes out on the page and on the Web is all about its DPI (dots per inch) measurement. The rule of thumb to use is that anything above 72 DPI should look fine on a computer monitor, but it […]
When we forward emails, we tend not to notice if we’re actually including an entire chain of them, beginning with someone’s original message. Including this history can cause two problems: First, your reader may get bogged down by chatter and information he or she has no need for. Secondly, those email messages, when written, were […]
Writing an important email or memo and want to weed out the typos? Copy and paste it into Google Translate and click on the “listen” icon to hear it out loud. Some errors which slipped your eye will be announced quite clearly!
Once in a while, a co-worker will voice an idea or viewpoint that seems colossally dumb. (Naturally, this only happens to others, never ourselves …) When you think someone’s gone a little batty, try simply saying, “Sorry, can you repeat that?” This query has a double use: You’re giving them a fighting chance to restate […]
Some entries on Wikipedia can be a bit overwhelming with extensive descriptions and obscure facts and figures. For a leaner page of helpful information, give Simple English Wikipedia a whirl. You can also replace the letters “en” in a link to a standard Wikipedia page with the word “simple” to produce a similar result.
You know that feeling: The week is done, the sun is setting and there’s nothing left to do but wait for Monday to begin again at a job that’s not 100% thrilling … ugh. One way to fight those blues is to deliver a shock to Sunday night’s system by doing something well out of […]
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