Step outside your comfort zone
Many of the common excuses that people use to avoid networking don’t hold water, writes career expert Hannah Morgan.
Admin risk: Carpal tunnel syndrome
If you spend all day working on your computer, your wrists may be at risk for carpal tunnel syndrome. Drake Baer offers tips on how to keep it at bay.
Follow 3 rules for quotation marks
Quotation marks are an important part of your writing, but are you using them correctly with other punctuation? There are some potentially confusing rules, but you need to get them right to make sure people understand what you’re saying.
Millennials take lead in the workplace
The demographic pie in today’s workplace divides up fairly evenly. Here is the breakdown of the workforce occupied by the four age groups.
What it’s like to be an ad agency admin
Who are the powerful administrative assistants behind the best advertising agencies? Alexandra Bruell gives you a behind-the-scenes look at five powerful ad agency admins.
The merits of using IM in the office
When you need a simple answer fast, can you beat communicating via instant messaging? That’s what one reader asked recently on the Admin Pro Forum.
Fun with animation in PowerPoint
Q. There’s a cool “gears” SmartArt element. Can I animate it so the gears spin?
Save time with transcription app
Audio transcription is tedious. Listening, typing furiously, rewinding, toggling back and forth between audio and word-processing: it’s endless and inefficient. An application called oTranscribe aims to change that, and seems to be doing a great job, John Paul Titlow writes.
Is procrastination the thief of your time?
If you procrastinate, you’re stealing time that could help you ace your work. This quiz will help you tell if procrastination is hampering your effectiveness.
1-Minute Strategies: May ’14
Improve your relationships by practicing mindfulness … Fight stress with science … Liberal arts degrees may not be a path to poverty after all.