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6 great compliments for employees

One of the best ways to motivate employees is to compliment them when they’re doing a good job. Here are six good compliments—but be sure to be honest when issuing them.

When should a startup hire technical talent?

If you’re starting a business, you might be tempted to hire freelance coders and engineers to get right to work building the business. This article suggests that might not be the best approach, for a variety of reasons.

Saving seconds adds up to saving hours over a year

There are very few things that help you save hours at work, but if you can save seconds here and there, those saved seconds can add up. This article shows how you can save a few seconds on tasks you do every day.

How to explain your job—without being boring

“What do you do?” is a common conversation starter. This article gives tips on how to make your answer actually interesting. Hint: Being “crisp” is key.

I’m not a programmer—how do I get started using AI? Here’s how!

If you’ve always wondered about how to use Copilot, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence service, here are some resources. If you want a step-by-step guide, check out this one at PC Magazine. Are you more of a visual learner? Try this Beginner’s Guide on YouTube. Either way, the only skill you need to get started is the ability to ask a question. Need a question to start? How about this: Why should I buy a TimePilot time clock?

Workers want more meetings—but only if they’re productive

The assumption is that workers have always wanted fewer meetings, but that’s not the case, according to this magazine article. What they actually want is more meetings that are productive, with action items and follow-ups on previous actions.

Want to sell your company? Advertise!

If you’re looking to sell your company, one of the best things you can do to raise your value is to increase your advertising, according to researchers. Advertising, they found, not only attracts customers, it also attracts investors.

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Learn how to handle holidays in the TimePilot software, get the code for a discount on iButtons, and, of course, learn more interesting time trivia and see the latest Cool Stuff our employees have come across. (Hint—the Cool Stuff item makes a nice stocking stuffer for Christmas!)

Do you have any of these bad leadership habits?

Want to be a good leader? Make sure you don’t do these five things. Two examples: Multitasking and interrupting your employees’ work for trivial reasons. Multitasking reduces productivity and leads to mistakes, and it can take up to 25 minutes for an employee to return their attention to a project after an interruption.

How to avoid ‘unhelpful help’ at work

Researchers offer tips on how to get valuable assistance when you ask for help. The key: If you can avoid a ‘fuzzy ask,’ the person you’re approaching for help can avoid a ‘murky understanding’ of the problem you’re trying to solve and give you good advice.

Be happier by thinking in days, weeks or years—and not in minutes

Researchers at UCLA have found that people are happier when they look at how they spend their time with a “bird’s eye view” rather than a “ground-level” task by task view. “We found that taking a broad view of time … is positively associated with higher levels of positive affect, life satisfaction, meaning in life and flourishing,” they wrote.

Helpful Tips and Resources

Moving TimePilot to a New Computer

You bought a new computer? Congratulations! After it’s all unpacked and set up and Windows 10 is updated (you did do that, didn’t you?), you probably want to get TimePilot installed and running. Basically, the TimePilot software has two major pieces: the database and TimePilot Central, which works with the

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Quick Answers for TimePilot Smartphone Apps

Sometimes you don’t need to know why something is done, just how to do it. Here are some how-to items for users of the iPhone® and Android™ apps that are used with TimePilot Extreme Blue and TimePilot Extreme Blue Enhanced. The items are also found in the help files that

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All About Bluetooth

Bluetooth is all around us. Our cars have it, our mobile phones have it; even our fitness wristbands have it. But do you know what it is? We do. It’s a sophisticated form of radio with a range of about 32 feet (10 meters). When you connect your iPhone to

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More ‘Off the Wall’ Uses for TimePilot Timeclocks

For other ‘off the wall’ uses, please see this article, this article and this article in past newsletters. For Accountants, Attorneys, Architects, Consultants, etc. Most TimePilot timeclock systems are purchased by companies to track their employees who are paid by the hour. But employees in the “professional services” sector—lawyers, accountants,

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Creating Signable Timesheets

The more you use the TimePilot Central software, the more you’ll find features and shortcuts that are built in. Here’s one: It’s not a bad idea to have your employees verify their work hours at the end of a pay period. This will give them a chance to correct any

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Moving TimePilot to a New Computer

You bought a new computer? Congratulations! After it’s all unpacked and set up and Windows 10 is updated (you did do that, didn’t you?), you probably want to get TimePilot installed and running. Basically, the TimePilot software has two major pieces: the database and TimePilot Central, which works with the

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Creating Multiple Levels of Access for Supervisors

In many organizations, whether it’s for privacy or security, it’s sometimes better if everyone doesn’t know everything. That’s the idea behind the multiple login feature of TimePilot’s Enterprise Edition software. For instance, if you own a business, you might want complete access to your TimePilot system: the ability to add

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Connecting your Vetro to your network

One of TimePilot Vetro’s best features is that it can be used all by itself or connected to a local area network. Let’s say you’ve been using your Vetro on its own, collecting your data with a USB drive, and now you’d like to connect the clock to your network.

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TimePilot Tap: It’s also the perfect timekeeper

TimePilot Tap is an extremely versatile little guy, and he can do much more than keep track of your employees’ work hours. For instance, Tap clocks can be useful to any organization that keeps track of hours spent on a particular project. Below is a hypothetical example of how you

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My Pay Period Is Complete; Now What Do I Do?

(Adapted from the TimePilot Help files that are available in the “Help” menu in the TimePilot Central software and on the TimePilot web site.) You’ve set up your clocks and your software, assigned your employees their iButtons and started collecting their clock-ins and clock-outs. Now the pay period has ended

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