You can make more money, but you can’t make more time. Making the most of your time at work isn’t necessarily easy. There are all kinds of unanticipated distractions that take up a lot of time, so you should know what works to help you get the most out of the time you do have. Listed below are three tips that will help you manage your time more effectively.
Recent events have illustrated how helpful a remote workforce can be, but this method of maintaining productivity isn’t without its challenges. For example, a staff that is used to working side-by-side in an office may have difficulties adjusting to this new work paradigm. Luckily, there are a few company activities that can help make better remote habits stick.
If you were to look at any businesses' list of priorities, “productivity” could probably be found somewhere at the top. Current circumstances being what they are and many processes shifting as a result, this productivity is probably more of a challenge than usual. Any bit of saved time can enhance productivity, so this week’s tip focuses on a minor change you can make to accomplish this goal.
With so many tasks to be accomplished each day, it helps to have all the information required to complete these tasks. If a task has no context assigned to it or no insight into how to approach it, productivity and morale are going to suffer. To circumvent this, you need to properly task out your team’s goals. Listed below are some practices to help.
Listed below are two potential scenarios that your business could encounter: one with a backup solution, and one without. This exercise will show and the benefit of protecting your organization with a backup solution.
Collaboration is imperative for a business’ success, but with more teams than ever divided up amongst their homes, it is arguably even more imperative to their operations. Listed below are three ways that your team can collaborate more effectively while maintaining remote operations.
Businesses rely on their networks to successfully complete the tasks they need to accomplish; it's imperative that the networks you rely on are properly managed. Listed below are a few tips and best practices that can help you ensure that your network is being properly maintained.
Businesses are beginning to reopen as stay-at-home orders are lapsing. Remote solutions have gotten many of those businesses through this ordeal and for many others they continue to deploy a remote workforce. For businesses still promoting telework, monitoring your local IT environment is something that you need a solution for. Listed below are some of the best practices you can use to monitor your IT while out of the office.
Disasters happen. Although this may not be the kind of thing you want to consider in terms of your business’ operations, it is something that must be done if you want to be prepared for the moment when a disaster occurs (as so many businesses are now learning firsthand). Listed below are a few best practices and tips to help you stay positive during this, and other, serious crises.
Cloud solutions can help support your office’s productivity; especially now, when it isn’t recommended that anyone congregate in the office. Thus, we wanted to go over how you can help even your remote workforce be more productive by utilizing cloud technology.
PDFs (Portable Document Format files) are a common enough thing to encounter these days. Nevertheless, many people may not comprehend the extent of what can be done with them… like editing them. Listed below are a few of the ways you can create and edit a PDF file.
Windows 10 has available for almost five years. Have you ever used the Windows 10 Action Center, though? If the answer is yes, good for you. If the answer is no, it is time to talk about the nearly hidden part of Windows 10, and tell you how you can use it to your advantage.
Because of the coronavirus, many office workers are working remotely. For many, this can feel like a nice change of scenery, while others might have additional anxiety from it. Regardless of where you stand, working remotely can be both effective and productive, if done properly.
There is no denying that a companies' security--specifically, its access control--is absolutely imperative to consider. Listed below are a few tips to help you enhance your business’ security via improvements to your access controls and their policies.
Believe it or not, Google doesn’t know everything. For example, you may be trying to write up a document in Google Docs that Google doesn’t recognize. Maybe it’s one of your services that you’ve created a name for, or even the name of your company. The issue is that Google likes changing words it deems “wrong”. Listed below are tips on how to stop it from changing words you meant to use.
Today's smartphone has a ton of computing power, enough to be a dynamic tool for modern workers. However, it can also be a major distraction. Listed below are a couple tips that will help you be more productive with your smartphone.
The Google Play Store has an expansive selection of applications available for users to download. Alas, just because they’re available to be downloaded doesn’t necessarily mean that they should be downloaded; in fact, many of these apps should be avoided. Listed below are a few categories of application that you shouldn’t download in the first place.
Keyboard shortcuts have been utilized for a long time to move things along faster. In 1994, around the time that Windows 95 was released, Microsoft created the new keyboard layout that incorporated the brand-new Windows key (or Win Key). When pressed, the Windows Key would instantly open the start menu, which debuted in the software.
Slow Internet may be an inconvenience in any case, but it has an especially negative impact on the workplace. Technology should enhance your operational efficiency, but if your solutions depend on a connection to the Internet, any problem there can effectively bring your productivity to a halt. Let's go over a few of the most common problems that might be slowing down your connection, and perhaps tip you off to the issue.
The people that support a business’ information systems are widely renowned as nerds sitting in a basement office waiting for someone that matters to call them upstairs. Naturally, we think this characterization is at the very least inaccurate, but since our jobs are so technical, it can be hard to relate with clients all the time. Luckily for us, the most helpful tool we have in our repertoire is excruciatingly simple. To fix your computer problem, have you tried rebooting it? Turning it off and then back on again?
