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Compound Annual Growth Rate: Comparing Investments with the Excel CAGR Formula
Does your company offer several types of IRA accounts? Are you unsure of your current IRA strategy? How do you know if the choices you make for your future are the best available to you? Say you review your IRA returns and consider changing your mix of investments. Five years…
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Simple and Foolproof Customer Service Employee Engagement Analysis
Employee engagement is a big-time buzzword right now. Statistics show how important it is for employees to be engaged. They also show how much productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction boom when engagement is high and bust when it’s low. Experts, surveys, calculators and apps in hand, are ready to tell…
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Six Steps to Pumping Up Your Customer Service Team
Customers. Depending on the kind of day you’re having, that word can either bring a smile to your face and a song to your lips or send you scuttling under your desk to whimper and rock back and forth muttering incoherently about someone named “Angry Edith” and her profane cockatoo,…
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Three Ways Technology Boosts Customer Satisfaction
There’s a tendency to think of customer service as a people-centric service – and rightly so. Our customers are people, and customers like human interaction. Customers even often prefer in-person or over-the phone conversations with a real person to resolve customer service issues1. That does not mean, though, that technology…
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Excel Lookup Formula to Create Combined Tables
Lookup functions (VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP) are among the most useful Excel functions to pull data from multiple column-/row-sorted lists into a unified table. Think of it this way, these functions ask a simple question and return the answer. Question: is the data from a specific cell reference in this column…
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Excel Formula Not Calculating?
As committed Excel users, we often go on and on about it as a productivity solution and essential program powerhouse. But catch us on a bad day and we are cursing that little green arrow and #VALUE! error like nobody’s business! Have you ever poured time into a worksheet, only…
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How to Make a Pareto Chart in Excel
The Pareto Principle, named for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, suggests that 80% of problems can be traced to as few as 20% of root causes. This can be valuable, even vital information when you are trying to figure out which of many problems to tackle first, or in a complicated…
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Feed Your Brain, Increase Your Opportunities
There’s an old myth that seems impossible to kill – that we only use ten percent of our brains. Popular culture perpetuates this misunderstanding. The new film, Lucy, featuring Scarlett Johansson as a woman who, through scientific accident, harnesses her brain’s full capacity, is the latest portrayal of the mind’s…
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The Forgotten (or Missing) Element to Achieving Goals
Is it just me or does it seem like everyone talks about setting goals, yet only a handful seem to accomplish their goals? I've learned about setting goals since elementary school, so I’m pretty good at writing my goals, but only after employing techniques that helped me accomplish my goals…
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Help, I’m Stuck in a Rut: Planning for Change
You feel stuck. Every day feels the same and you have a distinct impression that you’re not supposed to be here. You’re not quite sure how you got here and you’re worried that you’ll never break free from the dull routine that your life has become. Does this sound familiar?…
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