Listen to your anxiety
If you feel yourself slipping into âanxious time,â ask yourself these questions.
Year: 2021
Controlling your emotions
Emotions are a strange beast, and they are hard to control because they are not logical. Here are some tips to help you regain your control in a stressful work situation.
Dare to embrace âaverageâ
Here are 13 things ordinary people embrace about the working world.
1-Minute Strategies: January ’22
For your most important emails, make your first sentence a real grabber … About to lose some kind of benefit, or donât think you meet its conditions? … Cell phone running low in a possible emergency situation? … A lesson from Meryl Streep … Skipping shampoo/cultivating conditioner … Are you safe from the pinball menace?
Fill in email gaps
Replying to email with a message such as “Sounds good,” assumes the sender remembers what it references. And copying the original message is tedious. Instead, put your reply in context. Example: “Sounds good. I’ll put our lunch together Tuesday on my calendar.”
Are you a good boss… who still lies?
âI wonât call you on your day off.â Have you ever fed an employee this line? And did it, at some point, prove to be a bit of a lie? Writer Jason Notte identifies some more frequently-heard managerial fibs for Cheapism. Here are a few to watch yourself for.
Touch is the great teacher
Having trouble keeping organized and remembering what to do when, or if youâve even done it all? Donât rely on digital reminders or processes to cue your memory. Physical objects like printouts, Post-its, a planner book, or a personal bulletin board are better and more assuring memory aids because they’re tangible things you can touch […]
The office donations dilemma
Sooner or later, youâll need to circulate a request asking employees to chip in for a gift for a retiring employee, or to kitty up some money for a sympathy offering for a teammate reeling from a loss. But you know how employees dislike being told how much they should kick in. Besides, many people […]
Time for your year-end digital cleanup
Thorin Klosowski gives you seven steps to follow for a good digital cleanup in an article for The New York Timesâs âWirecutter.â
Use OneNote for calls to action
If youâve got OneNote Windows 10 or OneNote Desktop (2016), you should see a OneNote icon in Outlook, on the Home tab, in the Move group in the ribbon. Click it to select the notebook, section and page on which you want it to appear.