What is ransomware and how do I avoid it?
Here’s how to avoid becoming a victim of a ransomware attack.
Year: 2021
Ask the veteran: Help me stop the distractions!
Question: I have trouble staying on task for very long if it’s repetitive or boring. I allow myself to get distracted so easily! How do you deal with this?
Ask the veteran: How much authority do I have in a temporary role?
Question: I just got handed the job of temporary admin team supervisor while they hire someone new—which will take several months. How do you step into a boss’s role knowing your authority is so wafer-thin and temporary?
1-Minute Strategies: August ’21
July 15 is National Check-Your-Office-Signs Day … Language wins every time … Plagiarizing: evil, right? … Some social media celebrities simply have their own way of doing things … An odd secret of gasoline prices
Motivation, that most slippery of beasts
“Here’s the dirty little secret about motivation you need to know,” writes Alain Hunkins in Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders. “You can’t really motivate anyone else.”
Next time, accentuate the negative
Negative brainstorming, or reverse brainstorming, is just what it sounds like. Beginning on a negative note may sound a bit iffy, but this actually may be the direction our minds more naturally go.
3 tech areas to master in 2021
As we enter a new world of work where technology plays such an important role, and many of our co-workers log in remotely quite often, the skills we need to thrive have changed. There are three tech areas in which we can excel right now.
OneNote tips: Tags, links and intineraries
OneNote tags … Links for a OneNote TOC … Itinerary tips for OneNote
Master executive support
It truly is a special skill to support and partner with an executive. It is not an easy role, and it is not for the faint hearted. It takes grit, resiliency, street smarts, tenacity and agility.
Welcome to the age of the ambivert
Do you consider yourself an extrovert? An introvert? Do you think that an introvert can be a successful leader? The assumption is usually that leaders are more often extroverts—at least the successful ones. Recent research has suggested that introverts, with their higher capacity for empathy and thoughtfulness, actually make better leaders.