When confronted with a new software program, give yourself a day to just click every button and “break things” before you start hitting tutorials or a manual. You’ll accidentally discover valuable tools and feel less pressure to learn.
Who’s keeping an eye on your rep? As the Internet, social media, and the 24-hour news cycle gain ever more power to bring instant PR hits and lingering image woes to companies and leaders, more of them are turning to outside “reputation management” experts to audit how they’re perceived. Major law firms like Deloitte are […]
AVG Technologies Digital Diaries project looks at how social networks affect people’s work lives. A study released as part of the project included 4,000 people in 10 countries and found that more than half felt that workplace privacy has decreased with the proliferation of social media networks.
Criticism can actually help your career, if you let it. Keep this in mind: The boss who heaps phony praise on everybody isn’t doing you any favors. It’s the one who takes time to dole out feedback who’s helping move your career forward.
Q: “My manager suggested several times that I should not leave my purse on my desk, because it could easily be stolen. Last week, my purse went missing. I asked my manager if she took it, but she said no. I cancelled my credit cards and called the police to file a report. At that point, my boss admitted taking the purse off my desk. She feels she had every right to do this in order to prove her point. I have considered filing theft charges if my manager isn’t held accountable. What do you think?” Victimized Employee
Get ahead by talking less … Take 90 days to decide if it’s time to make a career move … Use Grand Central Station’s trick for preventing chaos.
You can reveal your true leadership potential when you use the DARN process to share bad news with your boss: Disclosure. Tell your boss the full details, explaining the situation and the circumstances leading up to it. Example: “We missed the cutoff date to file the extension because we hadn’t gathered all the data. We […]
It is three days before the event. You are frantically trying to gather attendee lists, catering orders, room arrangements, speaker itineraries, agendas, presentation slides and meeting notes. Some are in documents on your hard drive. Other information is available on a website. Countless documents and notes are in your email inbox, somewhere. Sound familiar? You may have an application already installed on your desktop that can rescue you from all that insanity. It’s called OneNote.
April 30, 2013
Categorized in: Word
Q. Why does the new Word paragraph format default to 1.15 lines?
When the job gets too far out of whack, it’s probably time for you to move on and even in this still-difficult economy, there are plenty of opportunities to do so, says Glassdoor career and workplace expert Heather Huhman. She offers 10 signs that it’s time for you to let your old job go and look for a new one.
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