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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

All About Login Accounts

(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

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7 (More) Top Tips from Past Newsletters

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

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7 Top Articles from Past Newsletters

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

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More ‘off-the-wall’ ways to use TimePilot

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

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All About Reverse Extraction

What’s Reverse Extraction? Reverse Extraction takes the clock-in and clock-out data that you extracted into a separate file and dumps the data back into Current Transactions. This is commonly used if you entered the wrong start or end dates of a pay period during extraction and find yourself missing some

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2 new TimePilot software choices:More features, more power

We’re rolling out two new versions of the TimePilot software—TimePilot Professional and TimePilot Enterprise—both with lots of new features. The “base version” and the one appropriate for many small businesses, is TimePilot Professional. It’s included with systems sold on TimePilot’s web site or by our sales department. Also available is

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Moving TimePilot to a New Computer

Where’s My Database? If you’re not sure where your TimePilot database is, start TimePilot Central on the old computer. Click the “Help” menu, then “About.” The “Data Path” indicates its location. (This is why we suggested you keep TimePilot Central on the old PC at least temporarily.) Now you can

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Extend the Power of Your Vetro Clock with New Accessory

We have a new product that can make life easier for our customers who use their Vetro clocks on their local area networks. Our Power Over Ethernet Kit eliminates the need to have a power outlet near your Vetro clock. The kit turns your network cable into an “extension cord”—transmitting

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Handling Employee Breaks

(Reprinted from the TimePilot online help. How do you handle employee breaks? Work breaks are generally considered paid time, and therefore employees do not have to clock out and then clock in. But there may be times when you want to monitor employees’ breaks to ensure they aren’t taking extra

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