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That time of year we all dread – notification from your manager that your appraisal is imminent. It doesn’t matter how well you think you’ve been doing, if you’re like me you’ll probably always be at a loss about what to say when the time comes. Do you go into the appraisal ‘bigging’ yourself up…
Why should you evaluate training? The answer really depends on what you’re trying to achieve and who you are. Let’s see how training evaluation can work for different people. IT Trainer Trainers need to see if the training did what is was supposed to do Check that the Client was happy with the training See…
Icebreakers are a good way to get an event started but you need to keep your group motivated especially after lunch or breaks when energy starts to dip. Energisers can be a useful way of doing this especially if you think about offering a small prize! Some of the best energisers involve getting the group…
An Icebreaker is just what it says on the tin – it’s a method used for breaking the ice, putting everyone at ease and getting an event off to a good start. They can of course go wrong but hopefully these tips might help to ensure this doesn’t happen. When to use an Icebreaker As…
If you need to email files to someone and the overall size of the files is too large saving them as a ZIP file may compress the size of the files enough to enable you to email them successfully. Select the files that you want to add to the ZIP file by using one of…
If you need to access Windows Explorer, the quickest method is to press the Windows key on your keyboard followed by the letter E. Alternatively you can right click the Windows button on your taskbar and select File Explorer (2013) or Windows Explorer (earlier versions).
Sometimes you might need to enter text in one cell in Excel that appears on more than one line. When you’ve typed the text that you want to appear on the first line press ALT+Enter – this inserts a manual line break and places the cursor on the start of the next line in the…
One of the most frustrating things about Windows 8 is that the Search and Run boxes seem to have disappeared. They are still there but hidden. To quickly access the Search box just start typing whilst the Start screen is displayed. To quickly display the Run box, hold down the Windows button on the keyboard…
Word tables are used to set out lists of information in an easy to read, organised way. There are a number of ways of inserting a table into Word – the Insert Table option, drawing a customised table or converting existing text to a table. Regardless of which method you use the table can be…
Formatting tables involves anything from changing the size of columns and rows to applying shading and borders to cells. After a table has been created, the Table Tools toolbar will be displayed automatically whenever you select the table. When formatting a table, remember to select the row, column or cell that you want to format…