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.
Having hourly employees line up to clock in at the exact moment their shift starts is a very inefficient procedure. TimePilot’s Snap-To function allows employees to clock in early and not go “on the clock” until their shift starts. It also allows them to clock out late but go “off
This is a collection of short items about TimePilot systems and software. One business, multiple companies The TimePilot software allows a user to create more than one company. If you’ve got just one business, why on earth would you need more than one company? You don’t need more than one
When we designed the TimePilot system, it was intended to keep track of the number of hours employees worked. They arrive for work, the clock starts. They leave work, the clock stops. The software calculates the difference, and that’s the number of hours they’re paid. Simple, right? (Actually, our software
If you use TimePilot Extreme or TimePilot Vetro, you’re probably pretty familiar with USB drives. These are the small devices stuffed with memory chips that plug into a USB port on your computer. They’re also known as Thumb Drives, USB Sticks, Flash Drives, Memory Sticks, USB Keys, Jump Drives, Data
The TimePilot software has been designed to be as simple or as sophisticated as you want it to be. Many customers want to keep it simple, and will never use its advanced features. That’s fine—the software is perfect for that. But other customers have more complex situations, and we’ve tried
Ever since TimePilot was founded a decade ago, we’ve had a web site. Ten years later, our site has grown to more than 100 pages. With that much content, sometimes it can be a little hard to find things. Here are some secrets—hidden and otherwise—from our site:
We talked in the last newsletter about the benefits of keeping your TimePilot IV software updated to the current version. We issued an update at the start of June that makes updating even more valuable. The update gives your software the ability to create spreadsheets and other types of files
Let’s talk about power. The kind that comes from an electrical outlet. Every once in a while, you’re going to lose power—whether it’s from a lightning strike or a downed wire. If you’re running TimePilot Extreme, it’s no problem—Extreme is battery powered. But what happens if you’re running TimePilot Vetro,
Introducing our newest product: The Blue Dot iButton Receptor. It’s really a simple device: two iButton probes attached by a coiled cable to a USB connector. Simple in concept, but extremely useful if you’re a TimePilot PC, a TimePilot Vetro or a TimePilot Standard user. (TimePilot Extreme users receive a
Most of TimePilot’s products come with those key-sized things called iButtons. So what is an iButton, anyway? Technically, an iButton is technically the round stainless steel “container” at the end of your black plastic keyfob. You can drop it, step on it, scratch it or wear it swimming. It’s unaffected