Productivity Tips — office productivity
Lost Productivity Calculator
Our productivity calculator can show how a small investment in quality office chairs can have a big impact on the bottom line.- Mark Redshaw
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Auckland University Uses Old Technology To Plan For the Future
Like a lot of similar institutions around the world, Auckland University is facing increasing competition in a highly connected and rapidly changing world.
This short video produced by the university shows how they are using mobile whiteboards to increase communication and engagement among teams and departments.
- Mark Redshaw
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QWERTY keyboards are so last century. Have you tried a Dvorak?
How many times have you thought about the keyboard that you use every time you sit at your computer. You might be a touch typist, although most keyboard users aren’t nowadays. However, have you ever thought about how it’s laid out? Why are the first letter keys QWERTY? Does it have to be this way? Indeed there is an alternative, known as the Dvorak keyboard.- Mark Redshaw
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Why Whiteboards are a Great Planning Tool
In this age of technology, where we carry around powerful computers in our pockets you may wonder if there is still a place for the humble whiteboard. Yet whiteboards still have important uses in businesses and learning institutions. And perhaps surprisingly, it is some of the most technologically literate people who use whiteboards most. Organizations such as Evernote and Apple recognize that whiteboards have advantages as a planning tool that even the most powerful apps lack.- Mark Redshaw
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6 Ideas to Increase the Efficiency of Your Next Meeting
No matter how comfortable your boardroom furniture may be, there is nothing more likely to send you to sleep than a poorly run meeting. Meetings can turn into a highly unproductive use of your time if they are not run properly. Here are six ideas which should increase the efficiency of your meeting.
- Follow the Two Pizza Rule
As CEO of Amazon (and at times the world's richest man, depending on daily share prices), Jeff Bezos knows a few things about business. He has clearly run a few meetings in his time, too.
- Mark Redshaw
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Cheap Office Chairs Are Expensive
You have all probably seen flyers from mass market stationery or furniture stores promoting what seem to be impossibly cheap office chairs. Your natural reaction may be that you should get yourself a bargain. However, if you go ahead and buy your “cheap bargain office chair” you will probably find after a short time that it was not such a bargain after all. Cheap office chairs aren’t cheap on your wallet at all. often they can be quite expensive.- Mark Redshaw
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