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What is a Time Audit & How to Do It - Tips, FAQs, Tools

Time audit involves tracking and analyzing what you spend your time on for a consecutive number of days. This helps you schedule tasks efficiently, accomplish your targets, and boost productivity. But how do you perform a time audit? In this article, we’ll cover what a time audit is and how to perform it with a simple step-by-step guide. We’ll then highlight four simple ways to enhance time management post time audit along with four FAQs.

10 Excellent Slack Alternatives (Features, Pricing)

Slack is one of the most popular real-time work communication apps used by individuals, teams, and organizations. It offers quick chat functionality, easy file sharing, voice and video calls, and more. So why look for Slack alternatives? Well, Slack has its own share of drawbacks. For starters, the fast messaging and endless group chats make it difficult to track what’s happening. In this article, we’ll discuss some Slack drawbacks and suggest 10 Slack alternatives you can use instead.

What exactly is direct selling? | A direct sales explainer

When someone mentions direct sales, your first thought might be of a well-intentioned friend hawking health powders and supplements for some multi-level marketing company. While technically direct selling, that image doesn’t come close to describing the impact of the direct sales model. If you’ve waited in line for the new iPhone in front of the Apple Store, you’ve participated in direct sales.

Employee Productivity is an Employer's Responsibility

A lack of productivity is something anyone who has worked a full-time job can understand. Staying 100% focused 100% of the time is just not possible. However, an employer’s workforce still needs to be productive. So how can a workforce be consistently productive without being expected to work like a robot? Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the employer to put systems and incentives in place to increase productivity.

What Are Stretch Goals and How to Set Them?

Stretch goals have sparked much interest of late, inspiring business owners and solopreneurs to think outside the box and take more significant risks. Much as the name suggests, stretch goals are goals that inspire us to look at the bigger picture and stretch beyond our comfort zones. These goals are big and naturally entail a great deal of risk. However, the payoff can be huge within the right environment and when enough resources are available to withstand any setbacks.

IE End of Life: It Had to Happen Sometime

Internet Explorer (IE) was once the most used web browser out there. You'd have to go back to what was practically the internet Paleolithic for that, but the truth still stands. Now, with this once titanic force being decommissioned by June 15, 2022, we’re facing the end of an era. And nostalgia aside, what does the IE end of life mean for the world of IT and the service desk? Furthermore, what precautions do you need to take now that it's on its way out?

What Is The Science Of Delight?

According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, your brain isn't a single entity. It is a parliament. And three systems are responsible for delight. In our global live+virtual event Refresh 2021, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, David presented his keynotes on certain aspects of ‘making delight easy’ for customers and employees of various businesses: the science of delight. David explained the decision-making process of the human brain along three intricately intertwined phenomena: evaluation, emotion, and the social context.