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Tips and Tricks to organize manager’s work place

Managerial tasks are the tasks that require vigilance,alertness but at the same time need to be done in a cool easy going manner. Three basic task of a manager are managing people,managing processes,managing information. Here are some tips and tricks to organize manager’s workplace in order to increase his efficency in office. Check the placement of your computer screen on your desk At your workplace there should be no overhead lighting that will glare on a 12° tilt back screen. You should not have window and a screen at the same time in your field of vision You need to have check on height of the monitor. The top level of your monitor should be placed at your natural gaze level Avoid noises in offices The ideal level of noise is as low as 50 dB in managers’ offices Human voices may interfere with your intelligence The human voice is a priority source of information that the brain cannot help but process. Our focus strongly prioritizes the perception of human voices an

Thank God I use Gmail at my workplace

In office when you get hundreds of mails and you need to read,mark and categorize them as per official need. You may need to customize mail for the client and need to store a lot of e-mail IDs. Things may get messed up if your e-mail service is not . In most office there is an official e-mail software used in case you don't have one what you need to use. Work Around - Use Gmai Account for managing your e-mails. Some of the popular features of Gmail are listed below: Labeling E-Mails  Gmail provides facility to label e-mails. These methods provide user facility for categorizing e-mails by labeling them. An e-mail can be labeled any number of times. User can display e-mails with a particular label and can also use it as a criterion for searching e-mails. Managing Contacts  As you send e-mail via Gmail contact list of gmail gets updated. It also has auto-completion feature that pop ups e-mail ID, primary name as user writes address in the To,Cc,Bcc column.  Auto Save feature  

Join Anti-Phishing Work Group

Phishing is one of the popular crime I discussed in some previous posts. TO fight phishing you need to know various methods that can lead to phishing. Phishing can be done via Social Engineering or via technical subterfuge. Social-engineering schemes use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using Trojan keylogger spyware. Pharming crimeware misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through DNS hijacking or poisoning. A new kind of phishing scam has been discovered where phisher uses voice recordings to pilfer money from PayPal accounts. This is one of the latest social engineeri