News and Tips

Having a truly Agile Stand-Up Meeting

Stand-up meetings have become a mainstay of daily agendas as work teams search for ways to stay connected efficiently, working together seamlessly while ensuring meetings don't linger. We were reflecting on our own environment and wanted to share a few ideas....

FREE Covid-19 Health Contact App

Are you ready for the move to COVID-19 Level 3? Are you ready to track visits of your staff to other workplaces, or visitors to your workplace? It's not just tracking visits.  You have an obligation to check you are not exposing your staff to Covid-19 either in your...

Fancy a date?

How many working days are there in a month? For many of us doing budgeting, the number of days matter for either income or costs. For years, I have spent a few moments as part of our budget setting exercise to look through an annual calendar, count the days in each...

Remote Working Tips and Tools

Working from home is different.  Managing staff working from home is also quite different. Here are a few tools to assist: [wow_colorme]1. Is everyone working ok?[/wow_colorme] Do we know where they are and what they need?   How do we discharge our Duty of Care to our...

Slow Cloud? The race to Remote Work

Coronavirus in NOT a conspiracy by the tech-industry to get everyone to the cloud. Imagine trying to get your workforce to work remotely without the cloud, and without ubiquitous connectivity like UFB. Those screeching dial-up modems that disconnected all the time...

Top Microsoft Teams Tips to Keep Your Team Together

People are already feeling strain with the rapidly changing face of Covid-19.  Stress and tensions are naturally high and for many organisations this could be first time they have asked people to work remotely for extended periods.   It’s definitely not our New...

Making it Work When Working From Home

Working remotely can be invigorating from time to time, but there’s a reason why we don’t do it permanently. If we’re forced to work remotely for a long period, how do we overcome isolation effects? Working together in an office has a number of social benefits. You...

Text Shortcut Keys in Word and Outlook

Everyone knows Shortcut Keys save you heaps of time. Here are our top five for working with text in Word and Outlook. Shift + any of the arrow keys, ← ↑ → ↓ to select text Shift + F3 to change case Alt + Shift + ↑ to move paragraph up Alt + Shift + ↓ to move paragraph...

Dictate in Office 365

The Office 365 version of Office includes an easy to use dictation tool. It is currently available in: Outlook PowerPoint Word You’ll find the Dictate command on the Message tab when composing a message in Outlook. In PowerPoint and Word its sits on the Home tab. To...