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Try these virtual private networks

Virtual private networks serve several purposes. One is to keep you safer as you connect to WiFi networks on the go. The other is to be able to maintain access to apps and services that you only have from your home country location. Here are the top picks from TechRadar.

Admins’ favorite keyboard shortcuts

Whether it’s a speedy way to create a bar chart or a trick for switching from one window to the next, keyboard shortcuts can help even the experienced admin knock out work faster. Here are a few of our readers’ faves:

Is your business running ‘premortems’?

We all know that a postmortem is conducted to find out what went wrong. A premortem is done like this: When you’re about to venture upon a major project, ask team members one question: “It’s one year from now and this thing has failed miserably. What happened?” Asking only for negative possibilities frees people to […]

4 critical ways to build trust

Whether you are a longtime leader sitting in the C-suite or a brand-new worker on the frontline, you want the people with whom you work to trust you—and your ability to do the job. Here’s what you can do to gain others’ trust.

Filler up!

We all use filler words, or vocal disfluencies, in our daily speech. The junk food of the applied linguistics world, they come off as sloppy and faltering. We should try to banish them, especially from our professional speech as much as possible. Right? Well, not necessarily.