Month: April 2010
Dealing with Boredom at Work: Make a Big Splash
Here are some telltale signs that you are, in fact, bored at work: You feel restless. You feel as if you’re not being challenged. You are surfing the web. Mainly about non-work stuff. You find yourself eating at you desk…a lot. The office water cooler has become your desk. I’mRead More
8 Stunning PowerPoint Templates: The Spring Line!
Every once in a while, we here at WorkAwesome like to provide you with some concrete tools that you can use in your work life. Today, we’re revisiting an old favorite: PowerPoint Templates. This past December we had 17 templates, and now we have a few more including several withRead More
Pushing Through Urgent to Get to Important
In an earlier article, I alluded to the notion that everyone should give themselves the gift of time. Coming off a long weekend gave me the perfect opportunity to do just that. I’ve had the time to reflect and get in the right headspace going into a week of workRead More
The Sanity of Plain Language
Although we all begin life using small words and understanding each other perfectly, somewhere between childhood and middle management our ability to communicate goes mad. We turn healthy little nouns like “product” into overgrown verbs like “productize,” which then become bloated nouns like “productization.” Forms are impossible to complete, instructionsRead More
How to Avoid Sucking
When I was a kid, there were several words that we were forbidden to use. Stupid was one. Jerk was another. There are seven other words that were strictly on the “you’d better not say” list as well…these words were also never heard on television, either. But there was anotherRead More
Accentuate Your Learning Curve with Spaced Repetition
Spaced repetition is a more robust method memorizing large amounts of material than more fashionable accelerated learning techniques. You can apply it to learning just about anything. I’ve used it to learn a programming language, shortcut key sets for the software I use, retaining information in new articles I readRead More