Smarter holiday e-shopping
Before you fire up the Net and begin your holiday spending spree, follow these tips from financial web site “The Motley Fool” (www.fool.com) for saving money during the nation’s biggest shopping season …
Category: Office Skills
Reader Tip: Admin-to-admin
Can’t bring yourself to weed through that pile of catalogs? Here’s a great reader tip on streamlining your catalog files …
Let’s make a deal: 3 tactical tips
You probably negotiate every day without even thinking about it. When it’s time to sit down and negotiate a lease contract or office-supply discount, have confidence that you’re a good negotiator. Use these tactical tips …
Green buying, beyond recycled paper
Not everyone can buy a Prius, but most admins can make office purchases that have a positive impact on the planet.
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.
The 10/20/30 rule
Put together a presentation that captivates an audience with the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
5 new ways to do slide shows online
Thanks to flashy tools, you can compose and distribute business slide shows online in novel ways. You may have heard about Google’s web-based presentation tool, where several collaborators can work on a slide deck simultaneously in real time. Here are other ways to give your bullet points added impact.
PowerPoint rule: Lead, end with a bang
Take a PowerPoint presentation from good to great with these six tips from Presentation S.O.S. by Mark Wiskup.
Help change the world
Help change the world—especially the world of business—by visiting DoTheRightThing.com. The site collects stories about the social impact of companies’ behavior, such as Bank of America spending $20 billion to back environmentally sound practices …
Design your space so work can ‘flow’
Does your work "flow"? Professional organizer Liz Franklin says we all handle paper in pretty much the same way.