Category Archives: HR Training

Microlearning Course Design

By Sheryl McAtee   February 27, 2020
Categories: HR Training, Time Management Tags: microlearning

When considering how to integrate new approaches—like microlearning—into your overall employee development efforts, it can be useful to get back to basics. In this article, we place microlearning within a broader training development structure. Let’s start at the broadest levels of training development: learning paths, curricula and courses. These learning categories define the overall topics…
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Microlearning Best Practices and Challenges

By Sheryl McAtee   February 27, 2020
Categories: Professional Development, Time Management Tags: microlearning

Microlearning is ready-made for the millennial generation: short segments of engagement—often online—that teach knowledge and advance skills. Here are some best practices and challenges for designing microlearning courses in your organization. Microlearning Best Practices If you are just starting microlearning in your organization, here are some best practices for course design and engagement: Plan to…
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Rediscovering Your Desk: Tips for Organization at Work

By Sheryl McAtee   January 30, 2020
Categories: Project Management, Time Management Tags: desk organization, work office organization

As you read this article, think about your desk. Many of us sit at it for hours in a day, but when was the last time you really thought about what’s on and in it?   Many tend to think of the desk as primarily a workspace, but often, that’s only one core function. Here…
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Attacking the Day with Apps: Tips for Better Organization

By Sheryl McAtee   January 30, 2020
Categories: Project Management, Time Management Tags: tips for better organization

There are many benefits of being better organized at work. With today’s technology, there are many apps to help you do it.  Rather than recommend specific apps, this article helps you think through the criteria for picking the apps that will best work for you. First, do you really want a work organization app, or…
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Time Management for the Holiday Season – Starting with WHO

By Sheryl McAtee   December 6, 2019
Categories: Time Management Tags: stress-friendly holiday season, time management techniques

Many time management techniques, tools and tips start with your calendar and priorities – the goal is to schedule your top priorities, rather than having your calendar drive you. For most of the year, this works well – we have concrete goals to achieve, and limited time to achieve them in. This outcome-based time management…
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Six Time Management Tips for the Holidays

By Sheryl McAtee   December 6, 2019
Categories: Time Management Tags: time management tips

It’s the holiday season and stores are mounting the mistletoe and gathering garlands.  For some, it is a magical time of family and fantasy. For others, it brings stress and a whole new “To Do” list on top of daily demands. Here are six tips, tools and techniques for time management though the holidays. Manage…
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Organizing Desks in the Age of Mobility

By Sheryl McAtee   December 21, 2017
Categories: Professional Development, Time Management Tags: National Clean Off Your Desk Day

Today’s work office is changing, and with it, comes a change in how we organize our workspaces. People may split time between a work office and a home office for telework. Others may work in “hoteling” spaces, moving from desk to desk daily. Others work in client spaces that periodically change; and still others are…
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Mastering the Messy Desk

By Sheryl McAtee   December 21, 2017
Categories: Professional Development, Time Management Tags: work office organization

David sighed. He read it was time for “national clean off your desk day,” and was preparing for the usual gibes from his office mates about how he badly needed to embrace the concept of work office organization. “The problem is,” David confided in me, “is that I NEED all these piles in front of…
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Dealing with Your Desk: Harnessing Your Habits

By Sheryl McAtee   December 21, 2017
Categories: Professional Development, Time Management Tags: organize your desk

Organizing your desk is a deeply personal activity. How you interact with your work office reflects how you interact with the world around you, so understanding those interactions can help you make meaningful changes to increase productivity. Are you someone who prefers to engage with the electronic world to communicate, schedule and store?  Or, do…
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Microlearning: An Overview

By Michelle Milldyke   June 27, 2017
Categories: Time Management Tags: microlearn definition, microlearn reasearch, microlearning

A brief video . . . a quick game . . . a job aid . . . Microlearning is a short lesson on one topic. Since these lessons take only 30 seconds to a few minutes each, they fit well in even the busiest staff members’ schedules. With some careful planning, you can piece…
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