Management Posts
These days, more and more organizations are allowing their employees to telecommute / work from home.
Working from home is virtually impossible in the past as employers are unable to collaborate and discuss work matters with their employees when they are away. But today, effective communication and collaboration through the Internet is possible and has been proven to be cost effective and reliable.
Besides allowing staffs to collaborate online, the Internet also becomes a platform for office workers to remotely control an office machine from wherever they are. Some common situations when remote desktop software can be utilized:
- Monitoring and managing an office server.
- Access office pc and work from home. After all, most software are installed in the office pc.
- Support staffs can provide remote support as if they were sitting in front of the machine.
- Take a client through a training by controlling his / her machine.
No doubt, remotely controlling another machine has become an essential and useful requirement for many people. Because of this demand, many remote desktop solutions have emerged in the market today.
The following list are 10 free remote desktop software for telecommuters to utilize and benefit from. Note that this list is not sorted according to any preference. Continue Reading »
List of free remote desktop software for telecommuters
Do you frequently use the Tasks feature in within Microsoft Outlook to manage all your tasks and important activities?
If you do, do you find the Tasks features in within Outlook comprehensive enough for you to be really task oriented?
Being task oriented means having the capabilities to be able to:
- Plan and create key tasks
- Plan and create sub tasks
- Budget the effort required for each task
- Manage priorities of all tasks
- Track the time spent on each task
When one is task oriented, it is important to be able to track and monitor how much time is being spent working on a specific task. With the capability to monitor all effort spent on a task, we train ourselves to be more focused, to reduce procrastination and to be able to estimate future tasks better.
If you’re looking for a free open source windows application software to manage all your tasks and to assist you in being truly task oriented, then do check out Task Coach - your friendly task manager. Continue Reading »
An Outlook tasks alternative for task oriented people
As a manager of a team, do you sometimes wonder if your staffs or subordinates are actually working on the right tasks, or are even working at all?
Some may be just surfing the web for irrelevant materials while some may be wasting time chatting with friends via instant messengers.
Did you know that on average, an employee loses about 81 minutes of productivity to web based distractions such as engaging in social networking site and chatting online on a daily basis.
If your organization is suffering from unproductive and distracted employees, there are two options.
Option 1: Pull out the Internet plug
OR
Option 2: Implement a workplace activity management and monitoring software Continue Reading »
Workplace activity management and monitoring software
Recently I realized that my three (3) year old machine is running slowly. Every time I launch an application, it would take at least a minute for it to load up.
Checking through the available space on my hard disk, I see that only 2.5 GB out of 74.4 GB space is available. This must be the reason why my machine is running slowly. Ever since I started using the machine, it has not been cleaned up in anyway. Short to say, everything goes in, nothing comes out!
At the same time, I also needed some space to install a database to work on some programming assignment. Since the size of the database is at least 10 GB, I need to clean up and regain enough hard disk space to be able to start work. Otherwise, I’m stuck as I can’t go screaming to my boss.. I need a new server with big hard disk capacity! Times are bad and I’m sure my boss won’t spend money on a new server just like that.
With this challenge, the only thing I could do is to delete unwanted files and backup the necessary ones to an external HDD. This task itself is a challenge because I do not know where the big files are. Imagine 3 years of data sitting deep inside folders. How would I know which folder holds to the big files? Continue Reading »
How to clean up and regain some hard disk space
