[ad_1] Using Advanced Fill Patterns From the Visio 2007 Extras Stencil I often find that I need to fill certain shapes with a regular pattern to indicate their composition. This is especially true of engineering drawings where shapes representing materials of various substances need to be rendered differently, but can also be the case in…
[ad_1] How To Win An Overtime Lawsuit Cases for unpaid overtime arise under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the federal law that generally provides for the payment of time-and-a-half overtime pay. To win an unpaid overtime case, you must prove three (3) basic elements by a preponderance of the evidence: (1) that you were…
[ad_1] Excel Tip – Use VLOOKUP to Return Multiple Values Horizontally I have been asked this questions a number of time about Excel and VLOOKUP formulas. How to return multiple values from one VLOOKUP. Let’s say we have customers who have more than one piece of equipment, but we want to return the serial numbers…
[ad_1] Favourite Microsoft Excel Functions – Two Functions in MS Excel to Put A Smile on Your Face If you’re using Excel, chances are you’re familiar with Excel functions: whether basic ones like SUM and AVERAGE or more complicated ones like VLOOKUP and MATCH. However, we bet nobody’s told you about the ROMAN and the…
[ad_1] Ten Ways Teams Can Motivate Team Building and Performance Team members should understand how they are responsible for much of their own motivation and performance. Each member can help motivate other members to have better attitudes and become more productive in team work. In many ways, motivating team members to build a better team…
[ad_1] Challenges to Gamifying Project Management Gamification has been a hot buzzword in web marketing circles for several years, now. It refers to awarding badges, points, perks or other digital prizes to web site visitors who take desired actions, like registering an account, leaving a comment or rating content. With estimates as high as 170…
[ad_1] Visio 2007 – Removing Text From Milestone Shapes in a Timeline If you use Microsoft Visio to create a Timeline to give a visual representation of a project, you will normally include milestone shapes at significant key phases. Visio inserts dates automatically into the events and milestones in the timeline, but this is not…
[ad_1] How To Be An Elegant Communicator I always love it when I hear a really elegant speaker. Barack Obama is elegant. Sean Connery is elegant. My first grade teacher, Miss Banta was elegant. I was mesmerized in her class when she always told us “extra” things in her lessons. Her enthusiasm was contagious. I…
[ad_1] Microsoft Excel 2007 Tutorial – How To Create a Table I can’t stress enough how important it is to have really good Excel skills for business. Even accounting departments who have spent millions of dollars on tier 1 ERP systems use Excel for reporting and data analysis. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful…
[ad_1] OPIE: A Simple Process for Project Management by Teams Sometimes teams will start an assigned project and not be able to manage it due to insufficient knowledge of how to plan and implement it. Other times, the team may have a successful project in the works and are unwilling to bring the project to…