Hilarious - Don't need much help

Hilarious employee joke showing what happens in an office:

Manager: Sorry,but I can't give u a job. I don't need much help.
Job Applicant: That's all right. In fact I'm just the right person in this case. You see, I won't be of much help anyway!!

Office joke: New office

Having just moved into his new office, a pompous, new colonel was sitting at his desk when an airman knocked on the door. Conscious of his new position, the colonel quickly picked up the phone, told the airman to enter, then said into the phone, "Yes, General, I'll be seeing him this afternoon and I'll pass along your message. In the meantime, thank you for your good wishes, sir."

"Feeling as though he had sufficiently impressed the young enlisted man, he asked, "What do you want?"

"Nothing important, sir," the airman replied, ... "I'm just here to hook up your telephone."

Zoho Office Suite

The Zoho Office Suite is a free & Web- based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications developed by AdventNet Inc., an India based company. It was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products, such as spreadsheets and presentations were incorporated later into Zoho. Although some applications, such as Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, require a fee to be used, Zoho maintains that it has a commitment to "maintaining a free tier of entry-level applications with free registration."

Zoho uses an open Application Programming Interface for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. Google Gears, an application developed by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser." It also has plugins into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, an OpenOffice plugin, and a plugin for Firefox.

The Zoho Office Suite can be used together with the Project Management tool & CRM to manage the employess and their tasks in a better way. Zoho can be installed on your servers as well for a fee.

dotProject for Project Management

dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language, open-source Project Management application designed in PHP & MySQL. It's free for any uses and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers across the globe. The developers who started with dotProject are Adam Donnison, Karen Chisholm, Gregor Erhardt, Ivan Peevski, Eamon Brosnan & Benjamin Young. It started as an open-source replacement to Microsoft Project and has the following features:

• Projects and Tasks
• Companies, Departments and Contacts
• ToDo lists
• Resources
• Forums
• Gantt charts
• Access control via ACL
• Reporting
• History of all activities
• Calendar
  

Sugar CRM

Sugar CRM is an online tool with which your employees can manage their data, meetings, emails and customer relationships. Basically, it's a SaaS (Software as a Service) which can be used by employees in a step towards Paperless Office. Available in Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Express, Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise versions, Sugar CRM is deployed on your servers and you can use it for:

• Account Management
• Activity Management
• Case Management
• Contact Management
• Email Marketing
• Forecasting
• Inbound Mail
• Knowledgebase
• Lead Management
• Marketing Analytics
• Multi-Channel Campaigns
• Opportunity Management
• Project Management
• Quotes & Contracts
• Self Service Portal
• Workflow Management
  

What obstacles stop employees performing to best effect

The management of the company should distribute questionnaires seeking answers about what employees are tolerating in their work & home lives. This technique is known to motivate employees as they feel lighter after sharing the worst parts. The company can eliminate practices that zap motivation.

Share company's primary goal

The employees of any company get more motivated when they understand the primary aim of the company they are working with. If the employer asks questions to its employees about how clear they are about the company's principles, priorities & mission the employer would get to know what does the employees think of the company and how motivated they are in taking initiatives. It has been seen that when the management of a company shares vision, values & aim with the employees of their company, the employees feel more motivated and their performance comes out in a better way.

Employee Motivation

For the overall growth of a company, its employees should be fully motivated to accomplish the tasks and should have a complete understanding of the future tasks so that threats can be overcome and growth can be achieved. Here are ten tips for questionnaires on employee motivation:

• What is the 'primary aim' of your company?
• What obstacles stop employees performing to best effect?
• What really motivates your staff?
• Do employees feel empowered?
• Are there any recent changes in the company that might have affected motivation?
• What are the patterns of motivation in your company?
• Are employee goals and company goals aligned?
• How do employees feel about the company?
• How involved are employees in company development?
• Is the company's internal image consistent with its external one?
  

Task list organization

Task lists are often tiered. The simplest tiered system includes a general to-do list (or task-holding file) to record all the tasks the person needs to accomplish, and a daily to-do list which is created each day by transferring tasks from the general to-do list. Task lists are often prioritized:

• An early advocate of "ABC" prioritization was Alan Lakein. In his system "A" items were the most important ("A-1" the most important within that group), "B" next most important, "C" least important.
• A particular method of applying the ABC method assigns "A" to tasks to be done within a day, "B" a week, and "C" a month.
• To prioritize a daily task list, one either records the tasks in the order of highest priority, or assigns them a number after they are listed ("1" for highest priority, "2" for second highest priority, etc.) which indicates in which order to execute the tasks. The latter method is generally faster, allowing the tasks to be recorded more quickly.
  

Employee Management

The topic of Employee Management is a part of People management & includes topics such as Employee Performance Management, Hiring & Training Employees, Team Building Exercises & Employee Motivation.

Exit Interview form

Here are the contents of the form for the Exit Interview of en employee from a company:

• Employee Name
• Termination Date
• Employee ID
• Eligible for Rehire
• Job Title
• Reason for Termination (Voluntary & Involuntary)
• Employee Comments
• Interviewer Comments
• Employee's Signature
• Interviewer's Signature
• Date
  

Employee Exit Management

The termination of employees, whether on a large scale or small scale, is not considered to be good by people. The management of the termination of employees plays a significant part in the image building of a company at the time of recession as well. Employee Exit Management is the process that is used within big corporates & enterprises to terminate employess, large or small scale, in a professional manner. Large companies seek the services of expert professionals who can conduct the process in a better way. Employee Exit Management applies to employees who have resigned as per their will and to those whoo have been terminated by the company owing any reasons. Employee Exit Management is seen as the opposite to the Induction Programme which is the process for on-boarding an employee.

More strategy games

Some of the strategy games that can be used for training employees are:

• 24 Puzzle
• 25 Boxes
• Add Like Mad
• Alchemy
• Alien Hatcher
• Atlantis Quest
• Bejeweled
• Bistro Stars
• Bloxorz
• Bonnies Bookstore
• Dragons
• Game for Money
• Kancha
• Reversi
• Rise of Atlantis
• Speed Chess
• Sudoku
• Tic Tac Toe
• Typer Shark
• Xtreme Catapult
  

Generations of Time Management tools

Authors such as Stephen R Covey have offered a detailed categorization for the hundreds of time management approaches that they invented, disovered or reviewed:

• First generation: These are the reminders which are based on clocks & watches, but with the implementation of computers it has been made possible to alert the time when a task is to be done.
• Second generation: Planning & preparation based on calendar and appointment books includes setting goals using pyramids, etc.
• Third generation: Planning, prioritizing, controlling (using a personal organizer, other paper-based objects, or computer or PDA systems activities on a daily basis. This approach implies spending some time in clarifying values and priorities.
• Fourth generation: Being efficient and proactive using any of the above tools places goals and roles as the controlling element of the system and favors importance over urgency.
  

Pareto analysis

This is the idea that 80% of tasks can be completed in 20% of the disposable time. The remaining 20% of tasks will take up 80% of the time. This principle is used to sort tasks into two parts. According to this form of Pareto analysis it is recommended that tasks that fall into the first category be assigned a higher priority.

The 80-20-rule can also be applied to increase productivity: it is assumed that 80% of the productivity can be achieved by doing 20% of the tasks. If productivity is the aim of time management, then these tasks should be prioritized higher. Often, ABC Analysis is used together with Pareto Analysis.

ABC Analysis

ABC Analysis is a technique which has been into use by businesses for long and is the categorization of large data into smaller groups. The smaller groups are often marked A, B & C and thus the name ABC Analysis. The activities of a project are ranked upon these general criteria:

• A – Tasks that are perceived as being urgent and important
• B – Tasks that are important but not urgent
• C – Tasks that are neither urgent nor important

Each group is then rank-ordered in priority. To further refine the priority, some individuals choose to then force-rank all "B" items as either "A" or "C". ABC analysis can incorporate more than three groups. ABC analysis is frequently combined with Pareto analysis.

Strategy Game - Minesweeper

Minesweeper is a strategy game popular in the corporate circles to impart the need & tactics of defining a strategy for a game plan to the employees. Minesweeper comes in various versions and has been an integral part of FREE games provided by Microsoft in its operating systems since Windows 3.1. Minesweeper is an unique combination of guess work & mathematical calculations that teaches the employees patience & thinking for a solution.