Do you casually include your cellphone number in the email signature that’s seen by co-workers and clients alike? Watch out; if it’s there, it’s an invitation to use it when they can’t get through on your office line. Do you really want to be driving home and have some salesman calling your cell because he […]
There’s something simple that you never stop needing in the office, yet we bet you’re always out …
When you agree to complete a project of any size, never drop the old “Remind me if I forget” bomb on the person who requested it. When you do, you create an obligation for them to have to deal with, and you set up a situation where they have to play the thankless role of […]
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!
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