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Okay, so you have a schedule all drawn up for your daily routine but the only trouble is that you keep being distracted by fellow employees asking you questions, making conversation, making comments or completing more tasks to your originally well planned out schedule. All these distractions can dramatically impact on your Time Management and throw your schedule into disarray. What you need is one of Infero’s Effective Time Management Training Courses.

If this is the case in the office, you could try using some headphones to give the people around the picture that you are busy and that you don’t want to be disturbed.  To eliminate any background noise present in the office, you could use some music through the headphones which will help drown out the background noise and help keep you focused on task. Also any Instant Messaging Clients active on your computer should be set to Busy so that other people are aware that you are unable to talk at that particular time. Another handy tip to use in an office environment is to make a ‘Do not disturb’ sign to hang by your workspace to alert people to the fact that you do not wanted to be disturbed.

In the case of having extra jobs offered to you, you need give a firm but polite refusal in order for you to complete any tasks you are working on at the moment. A polite yet firm refusal such as ‘I’m sorry but I can’t work on any more projects at the moment’ is much better than a reluctant acceptance for both parties as it means your schedule is unaffected and that the request can be completed by somebody who can give it their full attention.

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Organisations that develop their staff during the downturn will be better placed after the recession. No wonder that a call was made in an open letter Open Letter to UK Employerssigned by Sir Michael Rake (Chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and BT group plc), Mervyn Davies (Chairman of Standard Chartered), Brendan Barber (General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress), Richard Lambert (Director General of the Confederation of British Industry); and Sir Stuart Rose (Chairman of Business in the Community and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer).

Train to Gain is the Government service to supports and improve the skills of your employees as a route to improving you business performance.

Until now only organisations with more than 4 employees could access Leaders First Grant. For a limited time only the criteria for funding were eased and the funding is now available for limited companies with 2 or more employees or for other companies with 3 or more employees.

So why not to take this opportunity to develop valuable strategic skills and get yourself on a Prince2 training or Time Management course or simply upgrade your IT skills. Give us a call and we will explain how to enjoy the training while using the funding for the course.

IT Courses and Effective Time Management Training are vital tools to help businesses become more efficient and improve staff morale.

According to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, one in four companies which fail to train their workforce closes down. This compares to a figure of only one in nine for those that do provide staff training. It’s a case of train to gain.

Benefits of training on business revenue.

Still not convinced? Try this… The Sector Skills Development Agency says that employers who invest in training and certification experience a quick return by:

• Improving skill levels by 51%
• Improving productivity by 22%
• Improving customer service by 22%
• Improving employee morale by 20%
• Increasing profitability by 12%

Effective Time Management

Effective Time Management Training Courses can be invaluable in helping your colleagues achieve objectives by encouraging more efficient ways of working. These training courses can help your staff identify the differences between urgent and important tasks and produce a workable strategy for achieving the previously unachievable. Please get in touch if you want to help eradicate the time-consuming pointless chores and concentrate efforts on tasks that deliver results. We host a popular effective time management seminar and a range of IT courses.

So, you have more than one email account relating to your website but you are fed up with having to go to different places to check for new mail? Well Microsoft Outlook has the perfect answer to your email woes, by letting you add new email accounts to it so all you have to do is add your existing email account.

To do this, follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Select the ‘Tools’ tab at the top of the page and scroll down to ‘Account Settings.

Step 2: Click the ‘New…’ tab above the list of email addresses and another box will show up asking you which Service you would like. Select ‘Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP’ and click Next.

Step 3: Once you clicked Next, a screen will show asking you to input your email details. Use the password which your Internet Service Provider has given you to gain access to your email in the password section.

Once you have put in your details, click ‘Next’ to let Outlook start configuring your details and set your account up. This could take up to several minutes to complete.

Once this process is complete, your new email account will be checkable through Outlook Express.

Want more tips? Click on Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

How many times have you done it? You’ve sent an email to someone and realised that either you forgot to attach an important document or you sent it to the wrong person!

Wondering what to do? You can either just recall the original message or recall and replace it. The success or failure of a recall depends on the recipients’ settings in Microsoft Office Outlook.

Follow this procedure:

1. From Mail, in the Navigation Pane, click Sent Items.
2. Find the message that you want to recall and open it.
3. On the Message tab, in the Actions group, click Other Actions, and then click Recall This Message.
4. Click Delete unread copies of this message

 

Or

 

Click Delete unread copies and replace with a new message. Click OK, and then type a new message and/or include the attachment. Click Send.

 

You may want to clear the Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient box, if you are sending the message to a large number of people.

 

The above does not guarantee that the recall will be successful, however it is worth to try!

Want more tips? Click on Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

Sometimes you may want to mark major event in a project, for example indicate the beginning and end of the project or display the end of a major phase. You can use milestones to do that. To create a milestone follow the steps:

1. In Gantt Chart View, in the Task Name column, type the name of a milestone
2. In the Duration column type 0 and press ENTER

In the Gantt Chart the task will be displayed as a black diamond symbol ¿.

Want more tips? Click on Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks

When money is a little tight, as it is for most businesses these days, a sure way to guarantee success is to invest in the little gems your company already holds, your employees.

Let us say you have 25 employees, what is the best way to maximise your revenue? By making cut backs? Definitely not. You already have a group of hard working people who know your business inside out, so all you need to do is get them working a little harder, faster and more efficiently and you will see the results from your hard work and loyalty paying off in no time at all.

Time management is something that we are generally quite poor at most of the time. We should start work at 9, but things get in our way, we’re on the phone, forget to buy breakfast, the stress is too much, I need another cigarette break. All these distractions are cutting away at the time we should be using to focus on our business and make more money.

It’s not just you that wants results; your employees want to be good at what they do too. Time Management training and IT courses can teach them it all, so that they possess the right skills to do the best job in the most efficient way. If you train your employees to be able to adapt in business, when you need to make changes, they are ready and fully prepared to take on any new challenges. You will probably be surprised to see leaders starting to develop and become more efficient in the workplace, making your job more relaxing.

Studies have shown that training has a very positive impact on productivity, with some showing an 80% rise. And not only will it improve the amount of work your people do, but the quality will be staggeringly higher.

IT courses are perfect for honing in those all so important business skills and making your work look more professional. From memos to producing complicated formula reach spreadsheets, we can show you how to look great, feel great, and be great. So join us for Effective Time Management seminar to find out how we can help you.

Let’s say you’ve just applied various formatting options to text, for example you might have selected bold, italic, underline; changed font and size of font; applied a different colour, added borders and shading, and even adjusted different line spacing. Now you would like to quickly reproduce this formatting in several places in your document.

You can save time by copying the format you’ve already applied to text using Format Painter. To do so follow these steps:

1. Select the text that has the formatting that you want to duplicate.
2. On the ribbon from Home tab, in Clipboard, click the Format Painter button. When you move from the Ribbon back to the document, the mouse pointer now appears as I-beam with a paint brush.
3. Select the text you want to reformat by dragging the mouse to highlight the text.
4. As soon as you release the mouse button, the text receives the format of the other text. The feature is turned off and the mouse pointer returns to the original default pointer.

If you have several pieces of the text throughout the document that you want to reformat, then follow steps 1 to 3, however in step 2, double click the Format Painter button and select text to format those pieces of text. When you’re finished, click the Format Painter button to turn it off.

Want more tips? Click on Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks

The long renowned Prince is back! No not the controversial, rock-and-roll hall of famer or Will Smith’s ‘Fresh’, upbeat character. Rather the project management tool assembled by the Central Computer and Telecommunication Agency in 1989 to plan an organised and controlled event.

Prince2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environment) not only allows companies to create a perfectly productive and efficient method in which to execute their plan, but also offers you an acquired sense of control over your project management and plans long term acquisitions of the business. But not any John can crack the method, as it takes a combination of 4 hours worth of examinations and weeks of revision to function. However once accredited you can comfortably implement your project planning system into your business and tie up all those loose ends.

The Prince2 training provides employees and organisations with the skills to successfully manage a project through the efficient use of their resources. Prince2 will benefit project managers by allowing them to economically manage all of their employees and resources towards their project goals through a structured method. In other words; a perfect tool for project managers.

Key Benefits of Prince2:

• The flexibility suits all projects needs
• Easy mornings for middle management, as all those tedious meetings can finally be reduced to only necessary meetings
• It’s Free! Well to use only, of course there are training costs.

Prince2 and project management are always good entities to be associated with as it gives you that extra edge with potential clients. Yes, you may have to put yourself through Prince2 training and exams, but reaping benefits from it are far more worthwhile than the short-term implications.