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Year: 2014

When it’s clearly bullying, blow the whistle fast and loud

Q: “Instead of addressing me by name, our new director calls me ‘Princess.’ She also seems to enjoy aggravating me. When she walks by my desk, she will push my chair, rub the top of my head, or hit me with a stack of papers. I have tried not to react, since I figure that a reaction is exactly what she wants. My supervisor told her that I don’t like being called Princess, but this just seemed to make matters worse. I have been a model employee for twelve years, so I don’t understand why I’m being treated this way.” Not a Princess

Excel Quandaries

Microsoft Office Certified Trainer answers two questions about pound signs and circular cell references.

Don’t fall for the calendar’s crafty trap

2015 is just around the corner, and you know what that means—a regrettable moment or two in January when you leave ‘2014’ on a report, a form, a newsletter … Let’s face it, only the superhuman can avoid making this most common of mistakes. It might be worth setting up an Outlook reminder for late […]

Set smart goal-setting strategies

Setting goals is an essential step toward getting where you want to go in your career. But how do you choose the right goals and timelines for achieving them? That’s what one reader asked recently on the Admin Pro Forum.

Make your files collaboration-friendly

If your office collaborates on documents and data, inside and outside the organization, you may encounter collaborators using different office suites who need to work on the same file. “So that data file might pass between MS Office, LibreOffice, iWork, WPS—the list goes on and on,” says TechRepublic’s Jack Wallen. Wallen offers some tips to help make your files easy to share.

4 tips from a Toastmasters champion

To get tips on giving great presen­­tations, Business Insider reporter Richard Feloni turned to one of the world’s greatest public speakers, Sri Lankan HR consultant Dananjaya Hettia­­­­rachchi, who Toast­­mast­­ers International crowned World Cham­­pion of Public Speaking earlier this year.