While one of the big selling points of the cloud has always been how cost-effective it can be, it is important to remember that this isnāt always the case. There are situations where the value that a business gets from the cloud isnāt really worth the price of admission. Letās take a few moments to break down how you can evaluate the value that the cloud can offer you, and how to use this data to your advantage.
When you consider your businessā investments, you probably think about things like the hardware your team uses and the software this hardware supports. You might think about the furniture youāve purchased to outfit your office. However, one often overlookedābut incredibly importantāelement that needs some level of investment is your employee satisfaction.
As the boss, youāre in a position to offload many of your businessā responsibilities to your employees. Thatās more or less why you have employees in the first place. However, thereās more than one way that you can delegate tasks, depending on your personal style of management and the work style of each of your employees.
Weāve been examining the concept and phenomenon known as procrastination in recent weeks, touching on why we do it and how it often manifests itself in business processes. For our final few parts, weāll be focusing on how you can stop procrastinating by utilizing both quicker, short-term tactics and long-term, sustained changes. Letās start with some short-term tactics.
We recently started to pick apart the concept of procrastination as a means of understanding it better, and potentially, getting better at not doing it. Last time, we touched on a few ways that procrastination can potentially manifest, so it only made sense to us that we would continue pulling that thread and try to help you identify how you tend to procrastinate more specifically.
āNever put off until tomorrow what you can do today.ā Itās timeless advice, as well as some of the easiest and most tempting advice to ignore. Procrastination is one of those things that we all assume we understand, but we wanted to take a bit of time to explore it in greater detailā¦and figure out how we can all work to resist it.
Information technology is a constantly changing industry, with practices shifting all the time. As a result, anyone you have working on your companyās IT should be actively seeking out various certifications to confirm that they are keeping up on modern trends and standards. To help you accomplish this, weāve put together a brief list of valuable IT certifications that your IT personnelāwhether theyāre in-house employees or outsourced professionalsāshould have.
Every office has that one person that doesnāt seem to care that they are working in a room with other people. You know the type: They have day-old food on their desk. There are papers and other unnecessary items strewn about the desktop. Things are sticky and smell strange. The funny part is they seem comfortable with that mess. They may be the only one that is. In this weekās blog, we discuss the benefits of keeping your workspace clean.
Meetings are a common hold-up for getting things done in the office, an idea that is certainly not unfounded. Research supports the premise that meetings impact productivity. Letās consider what the numbers say and how you can work to ensure meetings donāt influence your companyās productivity in a negative way.
AI has been a hot topic in recent months and years, which only makes sense. Not only has it been used in more public applications, but it has also caused a bit of controversy as it seems to ācompeteā with people. Back in September, art made by using an artificially intelligent platform caused a stir by winning an art competition, and workplace fears of a computer taking oneās job have seemingly become more well-founded than ever.
Most people are capable of productivity, but sometimes it can come a bit harder for some than for others. If you find your staff have difficulty with consistency and productivity, we arenāt here to tell you methods for increasing their productivity; rather, we want to introduce a concept that is often overlooked when trying to get the most out of your team, and is a trait often found in the most productive people, and that is patience.
For many years now, thereās been a bit of a fear of AIāartificial intelligenceāin the workplace, all while it has been put into practical use more and more often in many businesses. This all ties back to the work of Alan Turing, who (amongst his accomplishments in computing) created what we know as the Turing Test as a means of gauging how intelligent a computer is.
Have you ever gotten a message that just makes your heart sink in your chest? Like, your dread piques the moment you see it? Chances are pretty good that your team members feel that way whenever you send them a particular message, particularly during certain times. Letās consider why this may be the case, and how you can better manage your communications to more effectively communicate with your team.
As Miguel de Cervantes wrote in Don Quixote, ā...is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.ā It was wise advice then, and itās wise advice nowāespecially when it comes to your businessā network and your data security.
Letās explore the concept of network segmentation, and how it can help to protect your business.
Many businesses, seeking to balance the positives brought by remote work to the value that in-person, face-to-face operations have to offer, have leaned into hybrid work practices. This has led to many reconsidering how their office space is set up. Letās dive into how these considerations are now shaping the workplace.