4 ways to become master of your email
Email is supposed to make life easier and more efficient, but often it makes things harder and cuts into job productivity. To get more done in less time, you need to take charge of your inbox.
Weird ‘other duties as required’
Here is a real-life list of actual assignments that bosses have dumped on their workers, according to employees surveyed by CareerBuilder.com.
Drop non-performing ambitions for a sigh of relief
The next time you’re making a list of life goals, ask yourself this: How many of the ones I’ve written down are simply holdovers from years ago, when I was a different person, and which I might actually be happier letting go of? Redefining success and happiness as you get older is natural—and usually the […]
Ugly PowerPoint
The answers to two questions offer tips on making sure your slides don’t become eyesores.
SharePoint will infer your permission rules
Q. In SharePoint, if I control access differently at the folder level than the library, and if the document shows up in another view without the folder, will it have the same access restrictions?
Silence buzz about Queen Bees
Popular culture has promoted the idea of the Queen Bee boss—a woman executive who actively blocks the career advancement of other women (think Meryl Streep’s role in “The Devil Wears Prada”). While it makes for a juicy character, it’s far from today’s workplace reality, according to a Catalyst report.
A profile of the chronically angry boss
Q: “The owner of our company flies into uncontrollable rages. We never know when something completely trivial will set him off. Nothing we do is ever enough, and no one dares to disagree with him about anything. His wife also works here, but she never confronts him about his temper. I actually think she’s afraid of him. How do we handle this situation?” Browbeaten Employee
Nail reports with these formatting tips
Adopt these rules that professional writers and editors follow to make your reports and presentations more compelling and easy to read.
Pull off a savvy self-assessment
Valuable or not, self-assessments seem here to stay, so you need to figure out how to do them well in a way that’s honest without appearing arrogant or getting yourself in trouble. Harvard Business Review contributing editor Amy Gallo compiled expert advice on how to do just that.
1-Minute Strategies: July ’13
Try taking some valuable career lessons from “Mad Men” … Change a typo in that PDF … Find the power in refusing to say “I’m sorry” … Use prepaid cards to keep tabs on employee spending.