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.
Pre-Approval: What is it and why should you do it?

Last month, I asked you to think of a time in the past
when you worked at your best, and what characterised it
– was it a time you were especially well paid, was communication from management very strong, were you challenged, and/or was it a time when you were trusted and given freedom to do your job your way?
Pre-Approval in Practice at TLC: Talk, Listen, Change

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 two-minute video.
JavaScript Functions Now Supported in Excel Spreadsheets

JavaScript is the programming language responsible for interactivity on web pages — it is behind such prevalent features as multimedia items and form submissions.
4 Tools to Boost Productivity in Microsoft Outlook

A hefty portion of our daily working lives is spent composing and receiving mail via Microsoft Outlook.
Litmus’ 2018 Email Client Market Share research
they found that Outlook was the leading client for desktop.
As Microsoft 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

We are all familiar with meetings, with research showing that meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years. Because of this, more and more research is being done into how to make meetings more productive and engaging.
There’s plenty of things for the chair of a meeting to consider when planning and organising a meeting, including the meeting format. In this blog, Billy outlines four things that you should consider when chairing meetings.
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.