For many admins, the thought of spending as much time analyzing the time it takes to do their work as it does to actually do the work is very frustrating indeed. Fortunately, there are several tech tips in this issue to help.
Try writing only the very next incremental action required to move an assignment forward.
Customize your Teams library … Add cloud storage accounts to Teams Files tab … Add a list to Teams
Many fine managers are good at interfacing with people and coaching them up, but behind their backs, youâll hear whispers. In his book Project Management for Non-Project Managers, author Jack Ferraro outlines what a good project plan does.
Kronos, the HR and payroll provider, has been hacked, with its private cloud services being held for ransom. Whether or not you are a Kronos client, here are contingency plans you need to make.
Thorin Klosowski gives you seven steps to follow for a good digital cleanup in an article for The New York Timesâs âWirecutter.â
Create an action item list based on an email.
Whether you use OneNote, Evernote or Google Keep, your notetaking app can help you organize your work, collaborate with team members and keep your email inbox tidy. Of the three, OneNote Desktop (2016) is the most fully featured, but many of these uses are viable in any popular notetaking app.
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are not new concepts. Whether you had a recovery plan or not, you have more clarity around what it might be like to be forced to do business away from the office in an emergency. If you donât have a disaster recovery program, this is a good time to start collecting data to make one.
The art of resource estimation can be tricky; our planning is frequently overly optimistic. Psychologists use a term called the âplanning fallacyâ to explain this effect, and to explain why we usually underestimate the amount of time it will take us to complete a task. Writer Jessica Greene suggests some more concrete estimation techniques.
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