by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Move…Forward…Reply…Delete…Drag… Good email management requires regular attention to your inbox and sent items as well as lots of dragging, dropping, and deleting. Some of the tasks you perform regularly in Outlook can easily be automated, thus saving you time....
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Microsoft Outlook has great features to help you stay organized and manage your time at work. One of my favorites is the ability to drag-and-drop email messages into other applications within Outlook. Let’s explore further. In the bottom left-hand corner of...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
I believe that life is full of happy accidents – times when our best plans go awry but we end up in a good, or even excellent, place anyway. For me, meeting my husband is probably the happiest and most unintended event in my life. For Minnesota-based 3M, the...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
I’m feeling Shakespearean. Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) In this speech, Juliet is essentially pooh-poohing the importance of names. She’s...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
The reality of work is that stress often accompanies it. Although some degree of stress can be motivational and inspire us to complete tasks, in extremes, there is a definite dark side. Excessive amounts of stress can adversely impact three areas of work and...