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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

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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All About Rounding

(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

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TimePilot Central Tips and Tricks: Icons

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

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Introducing Our New Smartphone Apps

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

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Announcing 2 new TimePilot systems

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

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TimePilot software: Secret shortcuts

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

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