Posts Tagged ‘Relating to IT Professionals’
Provide distractions to Gen Y at work?
If human multitasking is a fantasy, why would anyone give Generation Y employees access to distractions at work?
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Do you believe in human multitasking?
Can you, or your workers, really be productive doing more than one task at the same time? Checking e-mail while talking on the phone for instance?
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Interruptions destroy productivity
We live in this modern world of e-mail, text messages, and social media and the constant interruptions can be devastating.
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CEO expresses frustration regarding IT professionals
Recently, a CEO sent me a message saying about executives, “We don’t know what we don’t know, and we depend on the IT department for answers. They could tell me aliens fried their Wheaties on the backup drive for breakfast and how am I to challenge that?”
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Executives, does your e-mail address end in AOL?
Three different highly respected business professionals communicated with me today and each of them made comments along the lines of, “Oh—that CEO is so far behind in technology that their e-mail address ends in AOL!”
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How much should IT security cost in 2010?
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An Easy way to Browse the Internet Faster than Ever
Have you tried the new Google Chrome Browser to see how fast it is?
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Still using just one monitor?
Many users have changed from a single to dual monitors and their productivity has skyrocketed. I have a laptop that has two screens – one slides out when I need it. The extra real estate can make a big difference especially if you work with several applications open simultaneously.
As inexpensive as monitors are these days, consider treating yourself and your most productive employees to dual monitor systems. Even if you just try a few users first for a trial, you may find why many organizations swear they will never go back to single monitors for their users again.
Productivity Booster: How to keep tons of information easily organized
“Mike, I can’t live without OneNote – do you use it?” Enough IT professionals and executives at organizations who hire me as a consultant asked me this that I decided to give Microsoft OneNote one more try. Do you know what? I wonder how I got along without it too. I had originally thought it had to be used with my tablet PC, and I am finding that the program offers a lot even without using the tablet.
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Are users sabotaging your IT?
I was presenting in Atlanta recently and asked two IT professionals in the audience to estimate how much of their time is spent fixing problems that their own users created. The first IT professional said, “75%!” The second professional said, “At least that much for me!”
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