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Assumptions, Guesses and Pivot Tables: From Data to Discovery

How well do you know your business? Do you know how well you’re doing? What your costs are? How happy your customers are? How happy your staff are?

Learn to Touch Type and Increase Your Productivity

Touch typing is the ability to type using all of your fingers and without looking at the keyboard. This skill is vital for the modern world, saving you time and making you more productive.

Are you making the most of your people’s skills and knowledge? Michelle Hill talks about how the charity TLC: Talk, Listen, Change has used pre-approval in practice in this three-minute video.

JavaScript Functions Now Supported in Excel Spreadsheets

Gemma Beadle is HR Manager – UK for Advanced Technology Services UK Ltd. ATS specialises in repair and maintenance of factory equipment, with over 3,000 people across the US, Mexico and US. We spoke to Gemma about how she has helped to create a culture of trust – and the importance of communication.

4 Tools to Boost Productivity in Microsoft Outlook

A hefty portion of our daily working lives is spent composing and receiving mail via Outlook. A powerful and multifaceted program, Outlook is the standard email platform across a vast range of industries. As a matter of fact, in Litmus’ 2018 Email Client Market Share research they found that Outlook was the leading client for desktop. As Outlook is central to the modern workplace, we have identified a few features that could help save time and boost productivity.

4 Things to Consider When Chairing Meetings

There’s plenty to consider when chairing a meeting, including what format the meeting will take. While we are all familiar with meetings, we also know that many of them tend to lean so heavy on the formal side that there is little productivity as a result of them. Meeting styles are constantly being revised in the name of optimum impact. Here are a few things that meeting chairs should consider when conceiving meeting framework.

The Calming, Remedial Influence of Mindfulness

Mindfulness, put simply, is an exercise in attention. It’s a practice that revolves around calming the mind through meditation.

Supercharge Your Teamwork With Superengagement

What would life be like if your employees were so engaged that work didn’t feel like work?

The Secret to Constructive, Positive Appraisals

For many people, an appraisal is an annual event where a form is filled in (often at the last minute), there’s a ‘well done’ and a ‘try not to do that so much,’ and it’s accompanied by some sort of beverage with a biscuit.

Why do you attend conferences, and what makes a great conference?