We all know how important it is to exercise to keep our heart, lungs, and muscles in shape. But if you use your hands a lot, such as if you type or do transcription, it’s also important to take good care of your hands. In this post I’ll discuss some general ways you can take care of your hands, and also some stretches you can do so your hands to hurt too much after they’ve been pounding away on the keyboard all day. [Read more…] about Tips for Taking Care of Your Hands When You Work from Home
How to Avoid Sounding Like a Robot When Reading a Phone Script
If you do phone work from home, you may have to work from a script – many companies require that their workers read a script so they can make sure that all relevant information is provided to the customer, and the customer service representative is following all the proper procedures. But after reading the same script over and over, you may start sound like a robot. How can you avoid this? This post will provide some ideas for how to avoid sounding like a robot when you have to read from a script. [Read more…] about How to Avoid Sounding Like a Robot When Reading a Phone Script
Tools to Help you Stay Focused When Working from Home
One of the most important secrets to success when working from home is to stay focused on the task in front of you. So much stress is put on multi-tasking in our world, but the truth is that while multi-tasking may increase productivity, it decreases the quality of the product, and it can also decrease the quality of the customer service you provide your customers. In this post, I’ll discuss three tools that you can use to help you stay focused when working from home. [Read more…] about Tools to Help you Stay Focused When Working from Home
Allowing Workers to Work from Home and Making Sure They’re Staying Productive
These days, it’s very common to allow your employees to work from home full or part-time. Whole books have been been written about companies that allow people to work from home, and there are numerous websites that list information on companies that allow people to work from home. Most of these companies have ways of making sure their workers stay productive -for example most companies that hire people to take or make calls from home make sure that they have enough calls coming in so that their workers won’t have a lot of lag time between calls, or if they hire people to make outbound calls, they make sure they have enough calls for their workers to make. But what about other companies that are smaller and have fewer workers? For this post I asked people if they allow their workers to work from home, and if so how they make sure their workers are being productive. Here are the responses I got: [Read more…] about Allowing Workers to Work from Home and Making Sure They’re Staying Productive
Four Business Owners Share Their Business Goals for 2016
It’s that time of year again – the new year is just around the corner, so it’s time to start thinking about what you want to accomplish, both personally and professionally, in 2016. For this post, I asked people to share their business goals for 2016. Here are the responses I got: [Read more…] about Four Business Owners Share Their Business Goals for 2016