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It can be challenging to deal with failure in any context, but in the case of your workplace projects, it can be especially harsh. This makes it all the more imperative to frame such failures as opportunities to grow in the future.
Listed below are six reasons an initiative may fail and the lessons that can be learned from these situations.
There are several reasons to use a form to collect data for your organization: from customer impressions and service requirements to employee feedback about internal matters as a means of collaborative decision-making. The trouble comes when it is time to compile all the responses… unless you know how to use the tools at your disposal.
Listed below is the process of creating a form that self-populates a spreadsheet using Google’s toolkit.
Remote and hybrid work models have become more popular than ever, in no small part thanks to the enhanced technology businesses of all sizes can now access. Nonetheless, this shift has brought new challenges for businesses everywhere. One such challenge is maintaining and enhancing remote workplace engagement—a critical aspect that directly impacts employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention.
It isn’t easy to be a member of the workforce right now. While we won’t cover them in detail, plenty of stressors related to and separate from the workplace can easily impact an employee’s performance. As a result, it is often in your organization’s best interest to invest in your team’s well-being, and one way to do this is by implementing and encouraging the use of different technologies.
It’s always an exciting time when you commit to a new IT project that promises to change your business for the better. Naturally, the exciting stuff is what comes after the implementation process—a process that can range from easy-as-pie to incredibly complex and stressful, depending on the expertise your company employs.
If you could generate more revenue without spending more, wouldn’t you?
If you share most people's goals and aspirations, the answer is a resounding and enthusiastic “yes.” Scaling a business is an imperative element of continued success, provided it is carried out correctly. Listed below: how you can help ensure your success, partly by implementing the right technology.
Templates are a convenient feature that popular word processing platforms, like Google Docs, offer to help users create specific types of documents. While there are plenty of prebuilt templates available, there’s always the possibility that you have a need that isn’t filled by one of them.
In these cases, you always have the option to build your own. Let’s go over how, and discuss some of the elements and options that your custom Google Docs templates can support.
There’s no denying that productivity is one of the primary goals of any business, with countless examinations into the concept of productivity, theories on how to maximize it, and methods to promote it in the workplace. Listed below is a take on one of these theories and further discussion on it so that you can perhaps capitalize on it yourself.
QR codes have cemented themselves as one of the most common technologies utilized to direct people to critical resources or information about goods or services provided by a business. You see them on menus in restaurants, instruction booklets, and even on business cards. How can you make QR codes for your organization?
Today's spreadsheet programs, like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, provide a plethora of functions under the surface that—if used correctly—can take their utility to another level. For example, the cells in your spreadsheets can be turned into dropdown menus. How to do so in both Excel and Sheets is listed below.
Have you ever wondered why it takes longer than you expect for certain tasks to be accomplished with your business’ network? It turns out that technology is far from a simple thing, and small problems can seriously derail productivity and efficiency of complex information systems, one of which is the notorious network bottleneck. How can you identify and rectify this issue for your network?
Microsoft Word is one of the most popular platforms in business today because it provides the results that businesses need. Sadly for some of these organizations, their employees may not be as proficient with Word as they need to be. Listed below are a few quick tips about utilizing Microsoft Word that you can share.
For the business looking for a comprehensive cloud-based content management and collaboration solution, Google Drive is an option that warrants serious consideration. While we don’t want to recommend it over another one of your options, per se, we did want to offer a brief beginner’s guide to putting it to use. That way, any business that does elect to utilize Google Drive and (the associated solutions it comes with) has more information going in.
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve seen Macro Systems discuss phishing attacks. Whether you are being asked by some supposed Nigerian prince to hand over money or you are getting an email by what seems to be your bank that directs you to download an attachment, you are probably a potential victim of a phishing scam. The difference between being a potential victim and a victim is knowing how to identify it. Listed below are five ways to identify a phishing message so that you or your business won’t be scammed.
While email is an incredibly convenient tool, it can quickly become a time-drain if finding the right messages to read and respond to becomes an overbearing responsibility. Luckily, there is a simple solution to remedy this that, after spending some time learning about the full capabilities of your email platform, can once again make your email the convenient tool it is was designed to be.