5 Shortcuts in Excel You Never Knew Were There
Many of us are familiar with copy and paste (Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V). But how many other keyboard shortcuts do you know?
In this week’s blog, Fenella explains five Excel shortcuts that you never knew were there, such as the shortcut for the Autosum function and moving around sheets — and which will save you time when working.
How to Use Pivot Tables in Excel to Create Sub-Reports
In this 2 minute video, Nicky explains how you can create sub-reports using the Pivot Tables function in Excel. In this example, Nicky creates a Pivot Table showing evaluation scores from training courses – then creates a sub-report, displaying each trainer’s scores on a different sheet.
How could this tip save you time at work?
Am I Good Enough to Succeed? Imposter Syndrome in the Workplace
People with Imposter Syndrome doubt their skills and abilities — putting their accomplishments down to ‘luck’. They have a persistent, internalised fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud’, and that others will catch them out one day. This generally manifests itself in the workplace, and can affect anyone, regardless of job role or social status.
For those who struggle with it, Imposter Syndrome can be crippling. In this blog, Nicky Stone discusses how you can combat it and create your own definition of success.
Humanity Above Bureaucracy: How Buurtzorg Reinvented Dutch Home Care
Speaking at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Madelon van Tilburg of Buurtzorg Nederland and Brendan Martin of Public World detail the advantages of a flexible, human-focused approach to home care.
Madelon has been working for Dutch home care organisation, Buurtzorg, since 2011. Buurtzorg differs from her previous employers in that it lets nurses exercise freedom and responsibility in the job they’re trained for. Brendan founded Public World with the aim of improving public service performance in the UK.
View Madelon and Brendan’s full talk below.
Ethical Investment: It Has Paid Off For Me
Recently I’ve found myself several times in lively discussions about whether choosing to invest ethically means accepting a lower financial return.
Five Good News Stories (March 2021 Edition)
We’re currently enduring the worst public health crisis in more than 100 years. Life on earth has undergone many dramatic changes and a return to ‘normal’ still feels a long way off. But we do live in profoundly progressive times, with modern humans continuing to make amazing discoveries and breakthroughs.
Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.
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The Future of Work is Human
At the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Peter Cheese made a compelling case for why the future of work is human.
Peter is the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which is made up of more than 140,000 human resource management professionals working in the private, public and voluntary sectors around the globe.
While Cheese admits he can’t tell us exactly what the future of work will look like, he’s optimistic that humans will maintain indispensable workplace significance even as technology continues to expand.
View Peter’s full talk below.
Make work more fun
Make Work More Fun. That’s the title of the inspirational book from Corporate Rebels, published in 2020. The rebels, Joost Minnaar and Pim De Morree, gave up their jobs five years ago to tour the world visiting the most exciting organisations on the planet. The book tells the story of what they found.
In this blog, Henry Stewart unpacks a number of the book’s key arguments, which can help you discover a different way of organising companies, one that is more fulfilling for its people and more productive for the organisation.
