Planning your first big event? Here’s what you need to know
When you think of planning an event, does your stress level rise? Event planning can be difficult, but there are ways to make it less so.
Category: Productivity
Make it easy for them to return your lost iPad
If you lose your iPad, chances are the person who finds it won’t be able to access your contact information to return it to you if you use a passcode. To keep the device locked but returnable, Lory Gil suggests a way to add contact information to the lock screen.
Project-management tips that ‘rock’
Fast Company’s Evie Nagy interviewed two rock bands, Wild Party and Protomartyr, to find out how they were able to perform a combined total of 23 shows at this spring’s South by Southwest music festival. The bands shared their advice on showing up prepared, which can apply to project-management scenarios on the road or in your office.
How to build good work habits
Andy Core is a speaker and author of Change Your Day, Not Your Life. Recently, we got in touch with him to learn more about the importance of nurturing good work habits one step at a time.
Google Hummingbird
In 2013 Google introduced this new algorithm that changes the way Google evaluates search inquiries, particularly with what’s called “Conversational Search.”
3 reasons why you procrastinate
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get past the urge to procrastinate and just get things done when you need to, without stress or last-minute problems? You can certainly make a good effort to, writes Heidi Grant Halvorson, associate director for the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University’s business school.
Save time with IFTTT
If you like saving time by establishing automatic systems that don’t require a lot of hands-on work on your part, you will probably love IFTTT.
Planning and executing a flawless event
Great corporate events, the ones where everything goes well and everyone has a good time, don’t just happen. They’re always the result of plenty of hard work and a great deal of planning.
1-Minute Strategies: June ’14
Turn your workplace into a gym … Use a decision journal to figure out what works and what doesn’t … Math explains why you should always buy the bigger pizza.
9 tricks to improve your Google prowess
Google is a powerful research tool, especially if you know how to use it to its full capacity. And research isn’t all you can get out of the world’s most popular search engine. Siobhan Harmer at Lifehack offers some tips to help.