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5 Ways to Increase Productivity in the Workplace

Employees rarely work eight hours straight without losing focus or getting up to take a walk. While taking break here and there keeps their sanity intact and is completely necessary, sometimes they lose focus a bit too often, and the work suffers because of it. Here are some ways you can increase productivity without radically [...]

How To Type Faster and Increase Writing Productivity

Whether you’re a writer, blogger or general businessperson, a lot of your time is spent sitting at a computer composing documents and writing emails. In your free time, you also may find yourself updating your Facebook status, writing comments and doing other things that require writing. Any writer knows that the biggest limitation is not [...]

Tools to Improve Productivity for Preparing for Your PowerPoint Presentations

The tools that you need to create effective PowerPoint presentation slides is all located within the application itself. So your job is to figure out which tools will benefit you the most, here are some simple steps which you can follow to achieve your objective. Keeping your power point slides to a manageable size is [...]

Back to Basics – Providing Values as Your Main Core of Life

It’s time to create values to people (no matter you’re a employer or a employee). This also applies to your productivity at work. Bringing values to work means that knowing what you give-in during work instead of working for the sake of “work”. Life for Alibaba’s founder – Jack Ma is all about providing values [...]

How to Use Gmail to View Your PDF Files

I don’t have to use Adobe to open my PDF files online. I can view PDF documents in Gmail (in which liase with Google Documents that enables PDF viewer in my browser). When you receive a PDF document, you’ll see a new “View” link next to PDF attachments you get in Gmail. See how it [...]

How to Get Your Directions with Google Maps for Mobile

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUunR91VzI&eurl=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-your-transit-schedules-and.html&feature=player_embedded I’ve just installed Google Maps in my Sony Ericsson mobile phone because I don’t have use GPS when I want to look for directions – it saves me a lot of money as I couldn’t manage to buy one GPS device for this year. Start installing Google Maps in your mobile phone here. [...]

How to Use Simple Drawings on a Whiteboard or on Scriblink During Coaching Sessions

This is another short post about making simple drawings on a coaching lesson. You only need two things: A wall-size whiteboard A non-permanent marker This picture was taken during my science coaching for lower secondary level students (ages from 13 to 14 years old). At that moment, I was discussing about “Factors that affects heat [...]

Visual Thinking – Create your own Drawing in your Decision Making Process

I took an art lesson for amateurs when I was about 10 years old. This lesson was amazing because it was taught by a real-artist who was able to paint excellent artwork like drawing portraits, Chinese paintings (involving Chinese brushstrokes), canvas painting (charcoal and air brush paintings) and etc. I was learning the basics – [...]