Grammar Repair Shop: Affect vs. effect
Mary Kay Kinley, of Pueblo, Colo., writes: “Can you tell me how to use effect and affect?”
Cool Google tools
Here are three productivity tools from Google that are worth trying.
Cut costs, boost your personal value
Saving your employer time and money is one of the few measurable ways to demonstrate the contribution you make at work. Here’s how Amy Gurren, winner of OfficeTeam’s Administrative Excellence Award, proactively found ways to save her employer some of both.
Multitask with souped-up cell phone
Don’t have a fancy smartphone? These add-on tools can make your cell phone as much of a workhorse as an iPhone.
3 ways to help you land that job
If you’re talented and ambitious, nothing can stop you from getting the job or promotion you want. Or is there? Keep these three things in mind during a job hunt, according to What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here?
5 ways to contain workplace negativity
When you don’t address negativity in the workplace, it proliferates. Try these five steps to contain the mood.
Grammar Repair Shop: You’re welcome!
“Could you please tell me which is correct: Your welcome or You’re welcome.”
Top 5 little-known web research sites
Save time doing web research with these five powerfully helpful sites: Ask a Librarian; OWL, the Online Writing Lab; the Phrase Finder; Refdesk.com; and LibrarySpot.com.
Use winning words to get what you want
Why do some people always seem to be successful at getting what they want? It’s their use of the power of persuasion, says Laurie Puhn, author of Instant Persuasion.
How to diplomatically gripe about slackers
It’s almost performance review time, and you want to bring up issues with your boss about co-workers but not sound like a griper? Liz Ryan, a workplace expert, gives her advice on how to speak up during a review: