“Decision fatigue” is the mental exhaustion caused by considering, selecting, and executing choices. The more choices we make, the more mentally worn we become and the larger the number of errors that we will make. The best time of day to create intelligent forms? Morning after a good breakfast. The brain will move resources from…
How to Help Brilliant People Shine in Your Firm’s Office Working in any office, there are hundreds of interruptions to distract you every day. The average worker is sidetracked every 3 minutes from the task at hand and checks emails 30 times an hour. That’s a lot of distraction. Then there’s the time spent looking…
Word’s Intimidating Complexity Word’s greatest assets are its numerous features and immense potential. At the same time, they’re also its biggest drawbacks. Average users are barely aware of the far reaches of this expansive word processing capacity, never mind fluent in their workings. Mastering styles, for example, takes a substantial amount of time and effort.…
Maybe it comes from a good place, but Word’s constant need to ‘improve’ your writing can be frustrating. Disabling or editing the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features in the Proofing tab can help avoid such enhancements, for example by removing the capitalization of certain letters or those pesky automated bullet points. Struggles with indents and layouts…