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.
Hidden away in your TimePilot software is something that could well make your life easier: The software’s Help files. The help files explain all the ins and outs of the software, but one of its special features is a list of definitions of words and phrases used in the software.
TimePilot’s timeclocks work great as basic timekeeping systems. But they can be used in other, more innovative ways, too. Here are some fictional examples of how you could add our Tap+ clocks and iPhone App to your current TimePilot system to make your organization more efficient: Example 1 The Challenge
Important note: Backing up transactions is a safe and common procedure, but unless you’re an experienced TimePilot user, restoring them is best done with the help of a TimePilot tech support specialist. Unless you know what you’re doing, restoring transactions can wipe out data you want to retain. You’ve been
Is your New Year’s Resolution to become more productive? TimePilot has a resolution solution: We sell a line of battery-powered door locks that lock or unlock with the tap of an iButton. The flagship is our CrossOver X45 door lock. It’s a heavy-duty, weatherproof, battery-powered lock that is operated by
Setting up holiday schedules in the TimePilot software is pretty straightforward, but there are some things you can do that will get the job done more quickly and efficiently. When you installed the TimePilot Central software, you created one or more holiday schedules and then assigned one to each employee.
If you use TimePilot on a daily or weekly basis, you probably spend a lot of time with TimePilot Central. The TimePilot Central screen contains lots of data; sometimes you can become more efficient by simplifying things. In TimePilot Central, there are several ways to do this: The quickest way
Many of our first-time customers aren’t aware that you can add other TimePilot products to your current TimePilot system. All of our TimePilot timeclocks are designed to be used together, in any combination. The key is that all of the clocks have unique names and they send the data they
You’ve got your system set up and it’s running well. You’re extracting your pay periods, running reports and perhaps exporting your data to your payroll service or software. Now you’d like to learn a little more. Are there any “secret” features in TimePilot that might make it even more helpful?
A little over a month ago, we unveiled our newest product: TimePilot Tap, the ultimate portable timeclock. It has become a very popular product, and we’re finding out that the clock is being used in surprising ways. We intended Tap to be the ultimate portable timeclock, and envisioned companies using
TimePilot has just unveiled its newest timeclock: the portable, palm-sized TimePilot Tap! The Tap is small enough and light enough to be carried in a pocket, or it can be used as a desktop-based timeclock. It can handle as many as 12,000+ transactions and 2,000 employees, and its rechargeable battery