What’s your front desk strategy?
Your lobby or front desk is the front line for everything, including safety. Make your policies and procedures an annual topic of discussion. Following are several questions to help get you started.
Year: 2020
Are you making recycling gaffes?
You might think that you already know all of the rules when it comes to office recycling; however, chances are you’ve been wrong about a few things. Here are some items that are frequently disposed of incorrectly.
Correcting your executive in public
Question: My executive got a few figures wrong in a recent meeting where about 20 people were present. How should I have corrected him?
Apply a strategy to your priorities
One of the most highly prized skills in our professional toolkit is the ability to prioritize. Prioritization is, generally, a labeling system in which our brains sort through multiple data points. What our minds label as most important is the thing we will act upon first.
1-Minute Strategies: April ’20
End countless rounds of email and phone tag … To do: Add this to your to-do list
A stress-solver you wouldn’t suspect
Looking to chill out whenever and however you can? Try switching for a while from the radio to audiobooks or podcasts. When we turn on morning deejays or even just listen to tunes interspersed by commercials, we’re constantly reminded that we’re living in real time, bombarded by the present. Pre-recorded voices that speak without interruption […]
Loop your photos in PowerPoint
To produce a photo loop to run in the background at a special event, presentation or exhibit booth, use the Photo Album feature in PowerPoint.
Creating bookmarks in Word
Microsoft Word has the ability to create bookmarks (essentially metatags) with any selection of text or objects.
Excel dates: Just add 1
If you need the day number within the year for a particular date, subtract 1/1/2020 or the first day of the current year with which you’re concerned. Then add 1.
Is Hangouts in or out?
Between delays and false starts, it’s a bit confusing to understand what Google’s direction is with messaging. And while this won’t clear it up entirely, it will give you a snapshot of where we are, or where we think we are, based on the latest intel.