Nothing grabs attention like a good story
Telling stories or anecdotes is a great way to illustrate important ideas or to inspire your group to recognize opportunities. But what makes a good story?
4 ways admins show creativity
There are some specific steps you can take to break through your preconceptions and view problems and situations in new ways that will help you become a problem-solver for your boss.
Ask the veteran: What do I do when my day goes bad?
Question: Do you have any tricks for when a day goes bad on you? I was just disciplined by a supervisor, and I feel like garbage. The feeling will pass, but I want it to pass now.
Ask the veteran: How do I suggest that we all get more training?
Question: The coronavirus situation has really revealed who on our staff is technologically savvy and who’s not, but my manager doesn’t seem concerned about the gap. How do I suggest that we all get more trained up on everything we should know?
Stay focused in a time of chaos
The recent pandemic has caused many people to throw their hands up in the air in frustration about how to get everything done and still stay sane. Some tips to keep a level head and plow through the tasks that are still expected of you.
Before you forward that email …
During a time of uncertainty, we all want to be helpful by forwarding valuable information via email to family, friends and co-workers. But this is the time to be extra conservative with email forwards containing supposedly useful info if you have the slightest doubt about their source.
Online presentations and morph transitions in PowerPoint
Online v. in-person presentations … How does the morph transition actually work?
Change your Outlook reading pane
Some people don’t like the reading pane on in Outlook. It is easier to cull messages viewed as lines of data. But sometimes the first few lines of the message can be helpful in making the delete/keep decision.
View and add SharePoint document properties in Word
Whether columns are required or not, you can add them without navigating to SharePoint.
Fixing combined data in Excel
While there are many ways to fix combined data like “Chicago, IL, 60660,” many are fragile and not suited to connected data sources in a workbook.