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.
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.
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.
“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.
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?
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
(Adapted from the TimePilot software’s help files.) In TimePilot, rounding is the process of shifting a clock-in or clock-out time to a more “simple” number; for instance you could round a clock-in from 8:04 a.m. to 8 a.m. or a clock-out from 4:58 p.m. to 5 p.m. Rounding can help
In our last issue, we listed all the icons that can appear in the first or second column of TimePilot Central’s Transaction Manager and explained what they mean. If you missed that issue, it’s here. This time we’ll run down the column headers that can appear in Transaction Manager. You
There are quite a few icons or symbols that show up in the TimePilot Central software, and it can be difficult to remember what each one stands for. You may or may not run into these icons, depending upon which version of the TimePilot software you use and whether you
In this issue we’ll take a look at TimePilot’s new smartphone apps. If you use TimePilot’s Windows-based software, they should appear pretty familiar. The apps are free and can be downloaded at Apple’s App Store and Google Play. If you’ve got a smartphone, we urge you to give them a
Extreme Blue clocks undergoing testing at TimePilot. They’ve been running perfectly for months, even at temperatures of -11 F. Collect data with your smartphone! (Read the newsletter containing this article.) We started with a proven product: TimePilot Extreme. Then we added an idea: Today’s smartphones have the power of a
A sampling of some of the lesser-known features of the TimePilot Central software: Insert Pay There may be a time when you want to reward an employee with a bonus in dollars. To do this, you’ll use the Insert Pay function. (If you want to reward them with extra hours
(Reprinted from the TimePilot Help files.) What are Login Accounts? There might be a time when you want to give supervisors partial access to the TimePilot database. For instance, you might give a maintenance supervisor access to the transactions created by maintenance department employees, but not to the transactions created
We’re well into our third year of TimePilot Times Newsletters, and thanks to you we’ve built our subscriber base to more than 4,000. Last month we took a look back at seven of our past lead stories that you might have missed; here are seven more valuable ones: Using TimePilot
We’re well into our third year of TimePilot Times Newsletters, and thanks to you we’ve built our subscriber base to more than 4,000. We thought it’s time to take a look back at some of our past lead stories that you might have missed: 1. All about extraction Everyone running
TimePilot timeclocks do a great job tracking the number of hours your employees work, but they can be quite useful for other tasks, too. Here are two examples: Example 1 The Challenge: Federal health and safety regulations require that Acme Company keep a record of the amount of time each