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How to Freeze a Row in Excel
Why is this mentioned in a post about Freezing Rows? Imagine trying to read a sheet with the headers 1000 rows above the data you are looking at.
Critical Practices for Leading a Team
When talking about leading a team, many focus on long-term intact teams. These may be organizational support teams, sales teams or service teams – regardless of mission, they are designed to stay together for a long time.
Leading A Team to Success in Five Steps
Let’s be clear: teamwork is really hard. For every blog article proclaiming how beneficial teamwork is, there is a manager struggling to make it happen in the real world. In this article, we’ll look at five critical steps that help these managers lead a team to success.
Personality and Conflict Managing Style
Why do our coworkers stress us out? One of the reasons may be our personality types. In fact, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) denotes sixteen main personality types, including adventurers, inspectors and masterminds (among others). Each of those diverse personality types handles conflict differently.
Linking National Ice Cream Day with Employee Engagement
Employees want to feel like their organization is focused on a clear mission with compelling goals that they are personally aligned with. Engagement with the organization does not just come from eating ice cream – it comes from being fully bought in to the concept of the store itself.
National Ice Cream Day: Celebration Tips
In the United States, July marks the heat of summer, with camps and vacations – a perfect time for a cold treat. Ice cream can be a unifying and shared event at work too. For team members working their way through the summer, an ice cream focused event offers a nice employee engagement break!
5 Excel Data Entry Tips and Tricks You’ll Wish You’d Learned Earlier
When you start learning Excel, you begin by using the simplest methods for entering data and creating calculations. It is a credit to the software that so many tasks are able to be performed by the most inexperienced of users right from the beginning of their training.
National Safety Month: Assess and Act
The first step in developing or revising your personal or organizational safety plan is assessment. Here are several areas that you should consider – either as a leader of others, or for your own safety and well-being.
National Safety Month: Tips for Observing Workplace Safety
The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate and provides a variety of tools and resources that organizations and leaders can use to create safer workplaces. The organization celebrates June as National Safety Month, making it an appropriate time to pause and take stock of safety practices at work, at home and on the road.
How to Lock Cells in Excel to Protect Your Work from Changes
We’ve all done it. Mis-clicked. Mis-typed. Hit enter when we meant to hit tab. And while it’s frustrating to make mistakes in a spreadsheet of our own data, when managing important company assets those mistakes can have expensive consequences.