Capturing your business processes is a great idea. Once done, not only do you have a baseline against which you can monitor what people do but also with the results, you can review the process and review it to ensure it is efficient or where waste exists and improvements can be made. Now before I […]
Author: Emily Martin
Using Excels WORKDAY.INTL Function for simple excel based project plans.
One of the tasks I often have to do in my working life is to create project plans. For simple plans I often find myself building them in Excel. Now I know before you start that there are more appropriate tools to build project plans – I know that applications like MS Project offer far […]
How can I improve supplier delivery performance?
One of the primary drivers for many businesses own performance is that of its supply chain. Of the two primary drivers for this one is the quality of the product delivered (right first time) and second being the on-time delivery performance of its vendors. The importance of on-time delivery must not be ignored. Late supplier […]
How to create a simple invoice template in Microsoft Excel
One of the things that excel is particularly great at is in creating templates that you can then reuse time and time again. While there are a plethora of templates that you can look at downloading, for me there’s nothing like creating your own as it offers an avenue to learning about Excel along the […]
7 steps for better change management
For some, it may be a cliche but change is all around us. In adapting to ever complex environments and challenging markets many businesses are faced with an evolve or die scenario. As a result, and in particular, over the last 30 years, there has been a significant focus not just change management but on […]
Why is my Vlookup not working in excel
We absolutely love Excel’s Vlookup formulae. It’s one of those wonderful pieces of spreadsheet wizardry that we return to time and time again. I can’t tell you how many times it’s rescued me from problems. If like me you work with various data sets then it’s more than likely that at some point you will […]
4 steps to overcome your powerpoint fear and 5 ways to build a killer persuasive presentation
Let’s face it, business is a team sport, as such most of us have to either create or give presentations during our working week, for most of us we’ll have to do both. Unless we’ve either got bucket loads of experience or a level of training behind us many of us find building persuasive presentations […]
How to create a Kanban board Template in Microsoft Excel
In our recent post, we looked at how Kanban boards can be used as a great tool for helping to manage workload effectively. While this tool originally came to prominence as a visual management tool used in manufacturing organizations they can also be a great tool for personal use if you need a bit of […]
How To Create a Kanban Board to manage your to do list
In one of our recent posts 6 reasons why you suck at managing your workload we discussed some work productivity ideas. We talked about to-do lists as one of the most powerful tools you can use in workload management, while there’s a plethora of tools available out there, one of the options available that we […]
6 reasons you suck at managing your workload
We all want to work effectively. No one sets out to do a bad job. So why is it that we often find ourselves in a position where we’re struggling with deadlines, we have our boss screaming at us that we’re late with our work and we find the quality of that work dipping? These […]