3 tips for the freshly fired
If you’ve ever been fired, you know what a rollercoaster your brain can be in the hours and days to come. In the immediate fallout of an unexpected dismissal, it’s very important to try to take care of yourself.
Excel tools: Quick Analysis, Text to Columns, TRIM
Three Excel tools to ease your workload.
How to be the go-to person with less stress
In many organizations, administrative professionals are the unofficial, de facto help desk people. People go to you because you’re always doing miracles, seem to be able to figure anything out and get everything done. Here are two techniques you can employ to make the most of the time you spend helping people and reduce the number of repeat performances necessary for a single issue.
Who’s in your kitchen cabinet?
Writer Morra Aarons-Mele is a believer in having a fully stocked “kitchen cabinet,” meaning a digital sisterhood of subject-matter experts and confidantes. With your kitchen cabinet, you feel comfortable sharing doubts and vulnerabilities, whereas you wouldn’t express these things to your exec, your mentor or even the person in the cubicle next to yours.
Excel: Versioning in the Cloud
Q. I’ve inherited a workbook from a colleague who is no longer at the company. She was really good at Excel. The problem is, I can’t quite figure out what this file is connected to. Is there a “one-stop shop” for that in Excel?
Weathering the condescending co-worker
In the catalog of “how to deal with difficult people” advice you’ll seek out during your career, there’s a particularly insidious character who makes frequent appearances: the condescender.
It’s true: We can be heroes
Are there people you look up to, who inspire you? Your heroes can comfort you, guide you, advise you, help you through challenging times and also—let’s face it—make you feel kind of inadequate. Megan Day, author of New Mom, New Job, proposes an exercise in her book.
How do you rate on the realness scale?
Chris Hopwood of the University of California, Davis has created a realness test to measure one’s ability for acting the same way on the outside as they feel on the inside, an important component of authenticity and the ability to defeat our own neuroses.
5 things you might be wasting money on
Don’t waste your money in these five areas.
How to keep your energy bank filled
We all occasionally struggle with our energy levels. You only have so much of it, and it’s not enough to accomplish everything. It can help to use a metaphor and picture your energy as a bank account: the “energy bank,” as it’s sometimes referred to. You must understand your budget and work within its means.